They basically ripped off Xerox Parc's windowing system and mouse interface ideas. Endless Apple myths: Ripped off Xerox Can't use multi button mouse Uses non-standard hardware Is a monopoly Put SoundJam out of business Owned by Microsoft, a major shareholder Costs too much OS X is slow Lawsuits for no reason Rips off Linux any more?
I'm sure she thinks Carter and Clinton are gods. It was a lot more fun when Clinton was around, and we were all working. As for Carter, I think that he's got integrity. I know that's not a trait that people that scream "liberal bitch!" can identify with. Cept' maybe for your role model, Rush.
If anything, Jimmy Carter was set up by the same scum that's running things (into the ground) today.
A President with integrity. That would sure be a nice change of pace.
Get the Red & Blue OpenGL books. Download the examples for your platform from opengl.org Get them to build. Find a simple one you like. Back it up. Build the back up. Start hacking on it. when you finally break it, restore from backup. Repeat (Profit???)
Need a break from the above loop? Play tranquility from www.tqworld.com As intense an OpenGL app as you'll find anywhere.
Higher quality targeted directly to mp3 players. It's a little thing but I've always had to re-edit cddb tags to get them to spell things correctly, even just to give the songs the right name. I've also seen the metadata get do things differently between two disks on multi disk sets. Also, if they open this plan up, they could offer the entire catalog on DVD-ROM. $250 for the entire Stones catalog, with consistant metadata plus a little bonus material? It would be the hit of the Christman season. Many people would prefer to buy music in bulk to load up that 20Gb iPod.
The p2p download "services" are all too hit and miss. I can't figure out why the RIAA thinks that the labels can't compete with them. It's all so spotty, mostly just a billion copies of the same "hits" but it's rare to find an entire album intact.
The biggest problem isn't paying the artists, or the labels. It's pulling the rug out from under the middlemen like Best Buy and Tower. If anyone hates mp3's it's those guys.
latency would totally screw up feedback. You might get a whole new class of sounds, but it's not an improvement on the original, just something different.
If just one major label took the risk of opening up their catalog the way that consumers want, the rest could follow. Even if they took the chance on one artist's catalog to see how it went. As an example, if the Beatles catalog was offered online as highest quality mp3s, consistent clean meta data, no drm. $15 bucks per album, 1 buck per single. The complete catalog, at a clean, consistent quality level. (Something that's not available from p2p these days).
No catches, no proprietary player. You could also order the same content on physical media with bonus fetish material at a price premium, say another 10 bucks. Not everyone has broadband. If it's encoded at a high bit rate, it's not worth the time and hassle for everyone to download and mirror.
Would this venture be out of business in 6 months? Discuss.
1) Big Media wants ISPs to charge users a downloading tax
2) ISPs balk - Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers, enforces ISP tax
3) Profit!! (for lawmakers and Big Media)
4) Big Media now claims ISP tax isn't enough, content sales still down dramatically
Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers for help
Gets subsidies to save industry to cover losses
on content they never sold
5) Profit!! (for lawmakers and Big Media)
6) Big Media catches on..can get income without producing any content
Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers for help enforcing monopoly
Non-authorized content made illegal
No content is authorized (except government media)
7) Profit!! (for congressmen, senators and Big Media)
If their idea is patentable, can I get a patent on producing counterfeit currency?
After the secret service nails someone for counterfeiting, I take advantage of them tracking them down and then sweep in and nail 'em for violating my patent.
Hmmm..
Seems like it would be possible to checksum the files using a different method than traversing the bytes as a numeric data set. Instead, checksum in the audio domain. Using beats-per-second, pitch, or fft over time, you might not only be able to detect an intentionally munged file, you could verify an audio file regardless of the encoding scheme, identify and re-tag mis-labled audio files, and even use the method to TiVo songs off of the radio and id them without needing metadata.
Instead of wasting time developing and getting a patent on fscking thing up, this would actually be useful.
Compared to the stiffs the the Dems will be running. The bad traits we hear about him, mercurial etc. are no worse than the spoiled boy occupying the big chair now. I think most of those guys in that ran or won the presidency are prima donnas anyways.
Say what you will, there's few men that are better salesmen. I'd prefer his reality distortion field to what been blowing in from DC these days.
He'd sweep the youth and tech vote. He'd probably also have the corporate world listening to him as well.
This used to be the Information Age. Bush and his boys hate tech except when it comes to spying and revenge. If Jobs got in, we'd get the tech sector going again.
Here's a stupid idea. But it's no more stupid than proposing banning
software to certain individuals. Instead of spending money enforcing
smaller markets for software, why not give tax incentives for companies
that produce non-violent games. Seems like a win-win and it's not
putting a single programmer out of work.
They should give the first money to me.
Play tranquility at www.tqworld.com
From the article:..useful in a wide variety of missions where avoiding civilian casualties is a major concern.
One would think that with the US being the "Good Guys" that avoiding civilian casualties would be a goal of all missions.
It's more than likely an effective way of preserving the real estate. A neutron bomb without the residual radiation problems and nuke escalation issues.
Megawatts of microwaves? It would be too awful to brag about their new weapon in terms of frying people like a hot dog in the radarrange but I'm sure that's what Gen. Amana has in mind. How could they resist?
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...But I would most certainly prefer a society where everything possible were free....
Can you come over and wash my car, paint my house
make me dinner, give me a new tv, put my kids through
college, and clean out my basement?
Thanks.
I _want_ a utopian society where everything is free.
They basically ripped off Xerox Parc's windowing system and mouse interface ideas.
Endless Apple myths:
Ripped off Xerox
Can't use multi button mouse
Uses non-standard hardware
Is a monopoly
Put SoundJam out of business
Owned by Microsoft, a major shareholder
Costs too much
OS X is slow
Lawsuits for no reason
Rips off Linux
any more?
Will you ever quit bitching and go away?
YES! We get the point.
You can only use one kind of keyboard.
Pleeeeese stop.
They also sell this great gum with high doses of caffeine, nicotine, sugar and vitamins.
What a country.
I'm sure she thinks Carter and Clinton are gods.
It was a lot more fun when Clinton was around,
and we were all working. As for Carter, I think that
he's got integrity. I know that's not a trait that people
that scream "liberal bitch!" can identify with.
Cept' maybe for your role model, Rush.
If anything, Jimmy Carter was set up by the same scum that's running things (into the ground) today.
A President with integrity. That would sure be a nice change of pace.
yes.
Get the Red & Blue OpenGL books.
Download the examples for your platform from opengl.org
Get them to build. Find a simple one you like.
Back it up.
Build the back up.
Start hacking on it. when you finally break it, restore from backup.
Repeat
(Profit???)
Need a break from the above loop?
Play tranquility from www.tqworld.com
As intense an OpenGL app as you'll find anywhere.
Higher quality targeted directly to mp3 players.
It's a little thing but I've always had to re-edit cddb
tags to get them to spell things correctly, even just
to give the songs the right name. I've also seen the
metadata get do things differently between two disks
on multi disk sets. Also, if they open this plan up, they
could offer the entire catalog on DVD-ROM. $250 for
the entire Stones catalog, with consistant metadata
plus a little bonus material? It would be the hit of the
Christman season. Many people would prefer to buy
music in bulk to load up that 20Gb iPod.
The p2p download "services" are all too hit and miss.
I can't figure out why the RIAA thinks that the labels
can't compete with them. It's all so spotty, mostly
just a billion copies of the same "hits" but it's rare
to find an entire album intact.
The biggest problem isn't paying the artists, or the
labels. It's pulling the rug out from under the middlemen
like Best Buy and Tower. If anyone hates mp3's it's those guys.
latency would totally screw up feedback.
You might get a whole new class of sounds,
but it's not an improvement on the original,
just something different.
If just one major label took the risk of opening up their catalog the
way that consumers want, the rest could follow. Even if they took the
chance on one artist's catalog to see how it went. As an example,
if the Beatles catalog was offered online as highest quality mp3s,
consistent clean meta data, no drm. $15 bucks per album, 1 buck per
single. The complete catalog, at a clean, consistent quality level.
(Something that's not available from p2p these days).
No catches, no proprietary player. You could also order the same
content on physical media with bonus fetish material at a price premium,
say another 10 bucks. Not everyone has broadband. If it's encoded at
a high bit rate, it's not worth the time and hassle for everyone to download
and mirror.
Would this venture be out of business in 6 months? Discuss.
1) Big Media wants ISPs to charge users a downloading tax
2) ISPs balk - Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers, enforces ISP tax
3) Profit!! (for lawmakers and Big Media)
4) Big Media now claims ISP tax isn't enough, content sales still down dramatically
Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers for help
Gets subsidies to save industry to cover losses
on content they never sold
5) Profit!! (for lawmakers and Big Media)
6) Big Media catches on..can get income without producing any content
Big Media "lobbies" lawmakers for help enforcing monopoly
Non-authorized content made illegal
No content is authorized (except government media)
7) Profit!! (for congressmen, senators and Big Media)
8) Music is now illegal - Zappa predicts future
or we'd never see anything on /. except for articles about computers.
...and strangely enough, the noise engine produces files
that sound like Ramones covers!
If their idea is patentable, can I get a patent on producing counterfeit currency?
After the secret service nails someone for counterfeiting, I take advantage of
them tracking them down and then sweep in and nail 'em for violating my patent.
Hmmm..
Seems like it would be possible to checksum the files using
a different method than traversing the bytes as a numeric
data set. Instead, checksum in the audio domain.
Using beats-per-second, pitch, or fft over time, you might
not only be able to detect an intentionally munged file,
you could verify an audio file regardless of the encoding
scheme, identify and re-tag mis-labled audio files, and
even use the method to TiVo songs off of the radio and
id them without needing metadata.
Instead of wasting time developing and getting a patent
on fscking thing up, this would actually be useful.
Silent, but deadly!
Very good point. That didn't occur to me.
If you had a Mac, you would understand.
Come join us, friend.
I don't think Jobs qualifies as a wannabe.
He certainly has some accomplishments to his credit.
Michael Robertson, now there's a wannabe.
Compared to the stiffs the the Dems will be running.
The bad traits we hear about him, mercurial etc. are no worse than
the spoiled boy occupying the big chair now. I think most of those
guys in that ran or won the presidency are prima donnas anyways.
Say what you will, there's few men that are better salesmen.
I'd prefer his reality distortion field to what been blowing in
from DC these days.
He'd sweep the youth and tech vote. He'd probably also have
the corporate world listening to him as well.
This used to be the Information Age. Bush and his boys hate
tech except when it comes to spying and revenge. If Jobs got
in, we'd get the tech sector going again.
Here's his platform:
2004 - It's all about Jobs!
Here's a stupid idea. But it's no more stupid than proposing banning software to certain individuals. Instead of spending money enforcing smaller markets for software, why not give tax incentives for companies that produce non-violent games. Seems like a win-win and it's not putting a single programmer out of work. They should give the first money to me. Play tranquility at www.tqworld.com
From the article: ..useful in a wide variety of missions where avoiding civilian casualties is a major concern.
One would think that with the US being the "Good Guys" that avoiding civilian casualties would be a goal of all missions.
It's more than likely an effective way of preserving the real estate.
A neutron bomb without the residual radiation problems and nuke escalation issues.
Megawatts of microwaves?
It would be too awful to brag about their new weapon in terms of frying people like a hot dog in the radarrange
but I'm sure that's what Gen. Amana has in mind. How could they resist?
Some voice recognition software came with my SBLive..
How informative.
What the hell are you talking about?
Hey Cliff.
You oughta, like, read Slashdot more often.