Damn! Now how am I gonna replace all these aging vinyl and audio cassettes with a decent digital copy?..Guess I'll have to move on to some other file-sharing app..
Maybe if I ask the large music companies, they will give me a digital copy of all these old formats I bought - I mean, did I buy the object, or the license? If I bought something on vinyl, should I have to go back out and buy a CD copy?
"...2 Norway, and in February I received an award, a national 3 student award which is awarded to students who are in high 4 school and have achieved excellent grades and also achieved 5 something outside of school in culture, sports, art. 6 Q. Why did you receive that award? 7 A. I believe I received the prize because of my part in the 8 writing DeCSS. 9 Q. Did you get a prize? 10 A. Yes, I did. 11 Q. Did you get any money? 12 A. I received about $2,000. 13 Q. What did you do with the money? 14 A. I used $1200 and bought a high-end Sony DVD player for my 15 TV."
Wow! is this a prime example of how the MPAA are shooting themselves in the foot or what?..Just goes to show that the people who are engaging in these 'pirate' actions are usually enthusiasts that are spending large amounts on music, movies, etc.. As we all know, this is not about piracy, this is about absolute control over the marketplace.. As someone who produces 'cultural content' I don't like this idea at all -I don't trust Sony or anyother large corporation to protect my 'content' in my best interest - better to have it out there, enjoyed, and creating interest in what I create. --------------------------------------
I for one was very dissapointed when Infoseek switched over to GO, and the search results were topped with payed spots -It seems to me to defeat the purpose of searching the web if paying site (i.e. commercial sites) are getting top ranking. I must say though, I am glad to see them opensource the engine... Now hopefully someone can make less commercially focused search sites, using their same engine.
..For the 6 processor version, the card is US$ 129 + 69$ for each of the other 5 processors - Thats $474 bucks for a card that ONLY does seti processing - A good investment if you want to become famous through SETI, but I think I'd rather invest in some hardware I could use for SETI and other purposes.
One of the key benefits of high-speed internet access is the ability to download videos, including movies, from the web.
Mmkay? DOWNLOAD videos.. So how could they possibly regulate the streaming of videos? Data is Data.. If I DOWNLOAD a gzipped mpeg video, thats not streaming- Now how could they regulate STREAMED video, if they cant regulate UNSTREAMED (downloaded) video? I think somebody over there is waking up to reality.. Good job!
YES I KNOW that there is no advantage to zipping an MPEG file.. My point is that it changes the appearance of filetype, making it difficult to regulate.
Um. Yeah.. Chat forums are public - I'll start worrying when they make a tool that lets anyone search through my email, my phone messages, or my private thoughts..
Why don't we just break the web up into little peices?.. A MicroSoft Web, A Netscape web, A Disney Web, An AOL web.. Then you could be sure you're getting a 'family safe' web, and each company could control how much it cost's to access 'their' web..
..will NOT be enough. My god people! Think of the bomb recipies! The Sex! The Drugs! I saw something on the news about the internet.. Sounds more like 98% of the net you would want to protect your children from.. I'm getting off this thing right now, before It turns me into a violent, bomb-making, drug-taking porn addict!
..But killing in "games" is fun! So is hitting your head on bricks to see if a coin comes out, so is sorting falling shapes into rows, and driving a car head-on into another - All these things are fun in games -If you bring any of that into reality, you are an odd-duck, without any common sense, and you should stay away from any form of violence, alcohol, human contact, etc etc. --------------------------------------
You only need 40 gigs/hour if you are working uncompressed- there is no reason to work uncompressed, especially with VHS quality footage. I have used various video cards (Miro, AVMaster, PVR, etc). Most all of these cards us MJPEG compression, which is similar to MPEG compression, and of pretty decent quality (approximately Hi8 quality) I have even taken some footage captured through the AVmaster and dumped it to a Beta SP deck for footage aired on TV. A fast 8gig drive gives me a few hours of footage at decent quality.
...Eric Estrada! -And apparently Scully is only on for one more season, and SHE will be replaced with Far ah Fawcett! with a guest appearance by Gene Simmons of Kiss!
-I think we're taking this 70's revival thing too far.. Where's my dope? --------------------------------------
I'm using a DVD-RAM drive on my MAC here, and it is unbearably slow. I thought tape backup to the DLT was slow, Thats nothing! It burns at about the speed of a 2x cd burner, but with 2.3 gigs per side. You can speed it up by turning off verification, but then what good would it do as a backup device?
Check it out _Before_ you buy, Linux support or no.
Slashdot Mirror
is located here at sourceforge, not at opennap.org.
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Damn! Now how am I gonna replace all these aging vinyl and audio cassettes with a decent digital copy? ..Guess I'll have to move on to some other file-sharing app..
Maybe if I ask the large music companies, they will give me a digital copy of all these old formats I bought - I mean, did I buy the object, or the license? If I bought something on vinyl, should I have to go back out and buy a CD copy?
Whatever..
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..I could use that to download that 100k animated gif on the company website..
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"...2 Norway, and in February I received an award, a national
..Just goes to show that the people who are engaging in these 'pirate' actions are usually enthusiasts that are spending large amounts on music, movies, etc.. As we all know, this is not about piracy, this is about absolute control over the marketplace.. As someone who produces 'cultural content' I don't like this idea at all -I don't trust Sony or anyother large corporation to protect my 'content' in my best interest - better to have it out there, enjoyed, and creating interest in what I create.
3 student award which is awarded to students who are in high
4 school and have achieved excellent grades and also achieved
5 something outside of school in culture, sports, art.
6 Q. Why did you receive that award?
7 A. I believe I received the prize because of my part in the
8 writing DeCSS.
9 Q. Did you get a prize?
10 A. Yes, I did.
11 Q. Did you get any money?
12 A. I received about $2,000.
13 Q. What did you do with the money?
14 A. I used $1200 and bought a high-end Sony DVD player for my
15 TV."
Wow! is this a prime example of how the MPAA are shooting themselves in the foot or what?
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I for one was very dissapointed when Infoseek switched over to GO, and the search results were topped with payed spots -It seems to me to defeat the purpose of searching the web if paying site (i.e. commercial sites) are getting top ranking. I must say though, I am glad to see them opensource the engine... Now hopefully someone can make less commercially focused search sites, using their same engine.
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..For the 6 processor version, the card is US$ 129 + 69$ for each of the other 5 processors - Thats $474 bucks for a card that ONLY does seti processing - A good investment if you want to become famous through SETI, but I think I'd rather invest in some hardware I could use for SETI and other purposes.
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One of the key benefits of high-speed internet access is the ability to download videos, including movies, from the web.
Mmkay? DOWNLOAD videos.. So how could they possibly regulate the streaming of videos? Data is Data.. If I DOWNLOAD a gzipped mpeg video, thats not streaming- Now how could they regulate STREAMED video, if they cant regulate UNSTREAMED (downloaded) video? I think somebody over there is waking up to reality.. Good job!
YES I KNOW that there is no advantage to zipping an MPEG file.. My point is that it changes the appearance of filetype, making it difficult to regulate.
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Um. Yeah.. Chat forums are public - I'll start worrying when they make a tool that lets anyone search through my email, my phone messages, or my private thoughts..
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Why don't we just break the web up into little peices?.. A MicroSoft Web, A Netscape web, A Disney Web, An AOL web.. Then you could be sure you're getting a 'family safe' web, and each company could control how much it cost's to access 'their' web..
(Damn that sticky sarcasm key)
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..will NOT be enough. My god people! Think of the bomb recipies! The Sex! The Drugs! I saw something on the news about the internet.. Sounds more like 98% of the net you would want to protect your children from.. I'm getting off this thing right now, before It turns me into a violent, bomb-making, drug-taking porn addict!
Yeow!
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..But killing in "games" is fun! So is hitting your head on bricks to see if a coin comes out, so is sorting falling shapes into rows, and driving a car head-on into another - All these things are fun in games -If you bring any of that into reality, you are an odd-duck, without any common sense, and you should stay away from any form of violence, alcohol, human contact, etc etc.
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You only need 40 gigs/hour if you are working uncompressed- there is no reason to work uncompressed, especially with VHS quality footage. I have used various video cards (Miro, AVMaster, PVR, etc). Most all of these cards us MJPEG compression, which is similar to MPEG compression, and of pretty decent quality (approximately Hi8 quality) I have even taken some footage captured through the AVmaster and dumped it to a Beta SP deck for footage aired on TV. A fast 8gig drive gives me a few hours of footage at decent quality.
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...Eric Estrada! -And apparently Scully is only on for one more season, and SHE will be replaced with Far ah Fawcett! with a guest appearance by Gene Simmons of Kiss!
-I think we're taking this 70's revival thing too far.. Where's my dope?
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I'm using a DVD-RAM drive on my MAC here, and it is unbearably slow. I thought tape backup to the DLT was slow, Thats nothing! It burns at about the speed of a 2x cd burner, but with 2.3 gigs per side. You can speed it up by turning off verification, but then what good would it do as a backup device?
Check it out _Before_ you buy, Linux support or no.
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