"Until 1962 it was thought that Mercury's "day" was the same length as its "year" so as to keep that same face to the Sun much as the Moon does to the Earth. But this was shown to be false in 1965 by doppler radar observations. It is now known that Mercury rotates three times in two of its years. Mercury is the only body in the solar system known to have an orbital/rotational resonance with a ratio other than 1:1 (though many have no resonances at all)."
Wow, talk about an old virus. I think I still have that one on a floppy somewhere. I remember studying that one. I did a fresh DOS install to infect. When I was done, it was removed by booting a clean floppy and re-partitioning, formatting and reinstalling. I took no chances with that one. For those who are not familiar with the phrase;
Consumer CD copiers which were available in this period respected the copy protection and didn't allow the creation of second-generation copies.
That was classified as an audio device, not a computer data drive. As such, it suffered the same fate as the DAT. Computers did what audio gear wouldn't. Computers were used for writing discs, not consumer grade useless CD copiers. The consumer grade CD copier required the Audio CDR. The computer could care less and would make an audio CD on either a Data CDR or Audio CDR. Again, the computer was tops in the task. It is unencumbered by the restrictions on digital audio recorders. Vista is trying to put the genie back into the bottle with high def and protected formats. As such, it is picking up many of the functionality flaws of DOA audio equipment of the past.
CDDAs have a form of copy protection almost identical to that described in the wikipedia article you link to, so I don't think you argument entirely makes sense.
The protection you refer to is in the formatting, not the data. If you simply do a Digital Audio extraction, then the formatting is removed. This leaves you with a 16 bit 44.1Khz PCM audio data file. This can be captured in several ways in the ripping process. DAO is one. SPDIF output is another. Tying directly to the D/A converter and logging the writes with a bitgrabber is another. At the D/A converter it is serial 16Bit data with a serial clock pin and right/left pin. It isn't hard.
Here is a typical 18 bit dual channel A/D converter. All you need to capture is the clock, serial data and latch for both channels. At this component you have audio data, not formatting, subcodes, toc and other non audio data. http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/AD1865.pdf PDF alert.
I am glad you get it. You burn tons of coal and then using sunlight get back a couple gallons of fuel. Using solar heat to simply replace burned coal makes a lot more sense to me. I do understand that a few solar panels is not going to cut the coal consumption by much. Many greenies simply believe that once the process is perfected a small amount of sunlight will replace the tons of energy released in burning coal and reclaim all the CO2. It can be done, we just need to improve efficiency.
Look up over unity. It's this group who have all the answers on how to do it.
I'm still wondering why biologists continue to use lab rats to experiment on when there's so damned many lawyers about...
Pure economics. Priced any good rats lately? Priced any good lawyers lately? For the few things that a lab rat won't do, there are plenty of lawyers to chose from. Bring your wallet.
Recorded some shows to send to my young Son to watch in our second language. Trouble is: The new Sharp DVD Recorders save everything in copy-protected format that aren't playable on any other systems.
Thanks for the info. DRM will only survive in an open market if alternatives are outlawed. Defective products don't sell the momemt a working alternative appears. Remember the DAT? DAT by law required Serial Copy Management..
Computer hardware unencumbered by the broken format simply bypassed the DAT which rightfully died in the cradle. Computer CD drives gave way to CDR's which didn't include the restriction.
If a single vendor solution is broken, continue to look at alternatives. For me the alternative is a PVR-150 capture card in a Linux machine followed by my editor of choice and DVD author of choice to a DVD drive of my choice. DRM free and region free DVD creation is not that hard. Ask around. Some hardware is more friendly than others.
Since you dropped a brand name, I'll mention my technophobe wife. (I know.. Slashdot and wife..) She needed a simple solution. For her it is simply a Magnavox MWR20V6. She shoots the grandkids using a camcorder. Making a DVD is as simple as playing back the tape and pushing record on the DVD recorder (after selecting line in instead of a TV channel). Menu creation is very basic and she needs to remember to finalize the disk. To pass out copies, a simple right click in a linux box using copy to file and then on the ISO copy to disk is the fast way to make duplicates to pass to relatives. Making an iso and making lots of copies from the iso is a very simple process and much faster than any other way I have duplicated DVDs on a budget.
I like Linux as much as the next person (and use Ubuntu on 2 desktops), the the idea that the Linux on the desktop has doubled in 2007 is absurd.
An of those desktops, how many were you using in 2006? I had played with a couple distros before last year, but they simply were not a replacement for anything. Last year I converted my old PIII machine, an IMB Thinkpad, and put Ubuntu on my new homebuilt Core 2 Duo box. In the process, I have helped a bunch of people switch. There are many who abandoned old versions of Windows and upgraded to Linux last year. Last year is the first year Linux is my primary OS, not a toy.
The real problem is everyone is worried about which one will become Beta and which will become VHS that only the extreme early adopters and easily swayed have bought into one. I've had salesmen specifically tell me not to buy Blue-Ray or HDDVD until one of them wins the war. Them telling people this costs them money, and yet they continue to do it.
From what I've seen, the war is not so much VHS vs Betamax. Both those formats got great traction. With the adoption rates against the established standards, the war looks more line of RCA Selectivision capacitive disc verses the Pioneer Laserdisc.
Both of these tried to compete with videotape and lost. How would you like to have a box of RCA Selectivision movies? It isn't the price of the player that's the entire problem. It's being stuck with a box of expensive unsupported dead movies.
So why not just buy one, get movies for that format and if the one you choose doesn't turn out to be the winner, buy the other player when it's cheap, too. It's not that big of an investment.
The same reason I have been dissapointed with my Laserdisc purchase. The promises were big. The movies could be pressed much cheaper than making a tape. The format was free from copyguard as it conformed to the NTSC spec at broadcast quality.
Royalties and reluctant movie studios killed it. I was rewarded with poor selection at high prices, much like anything HD now. I have learned from my mistake. I have a $1000 player, and a library of less than 8 movies in that format. (that's less than a movie a year for those counting. VHS movies fell from $35 to under $15 for most movies, while Laserdisc movies became a premium video item with movies starting at $60 and up. DVD's hit the price points that laserdisc never did, but they came with evil DMCA protection and region coding.
Even though he didn't mention the 1% linux OS is much larger than 1%, anybody who decided to actualy check the link. Nov 2007 Linux OS... 3.3% I don't think Bill would have provided a link to that page for us.
My neighbor, who isn't really decked out as much as some, said his bill will be over $600 more this months for his lighting scheme. OUCH.
I've gone completely to LEDs this year. The 60 bulb strings I use draw a total of 2 Watts/string. At $0.12 per KWH, the 200 strings take 12 cents for each 2 and a half hours, or about $1.00 per evening. I even stuck a string in the back window of my car. I swapped out the blue for white as a few years ago I ran a red/white/blue set in support of our troups, but got pulled over for displaying a blue light. If you do christmas lights on a car, don't display any blue bulbs. I didn't get a ticket as the officer could see it's purpose and just educated me.
Ditch the C5, C7 and C9 bulbs. Last year I did blue. This year I'm doing white with some multicolor trim. Next year will probably include annimation, which increases the power for the computer, but reduces the average load for lights. If I run off my old Windows 2K laptop, the computer power will be less than 65 Watts. The initial investment is higher, but I find fewer failures except in some early strings which seem to have a high failure rate for green LEDs.
I wondered about all that, and I have noticed some very important things happening at the Ligts-O-Rama website. Ever since the Carson Williams lightshow stood the internet on fire for crazy annimated lights, the question was raised. The first big dilema was with TSO who has a record label which is a member of the RIAA... Ohh bad news. At the time not many have heard of TSO.. The online free publicity has been a godsend to TSO, who publicly praised the lightsohow and gave Carson Willmans red carpet treatment to one of their concerts. This put the label and the RIAA in a fix.. Attack or grin and bear it? The TSO invite made an attack a bad move. But what about all the others that are sure to follow....
The first thing to happen in the back room was to get the software and lighting folks on board to avoid legal issues that could damage their business for making avaliable the technology. Who needs a RIO lawsuit?
The outcome is a licensing agreement. The TSO sequences are free to use with the lights-o-rama program. You must buy your own legal copy of the CD to rip it for the show. Lights-o-Rama is in negotiations with other bands and labels for additional material. Unfortunately, most have decided this can be a real money maker.. and for a fee of about $30 for most of the listed tunes, you can get a performance license for your show. Lucy and Linus is one of the approved songs. Just don't do a show without buying the license. Don't do a show without a license. Not all musicians and lables have warmed up to the idea. I would not recommend any shows to any tunes by the artist formaly known as Prince. That could get ugly, especialy if posted on youtube.
Here is a direct link to the fees for the public performance fees including a list of the songs and artists. The list is short to say the least.. A pathetic list of ten total songs to choose from.. Come on guys, lighten up a little on the licensing.. http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html
Here is a link to the FREE TSO sequences. Remember, use a legal copy of the TSO track, not a limewire download. My head was about to explode on this one. TSO is wonderful for starting the ball rolling on this and dragging along the label and RIAA. But the songs are on RIAA member labels.. Do I buy it to suport TSO or avoid it because it's an RIAA label??? My head is going to explode! http://www.lightorama.com/FreeTSO.html
This page explains clearly the need to purchase the CD. I have considered doing a show, but have been stopped by the licensing issues.
I am considering doing a Mannheim Steamroller track because they are RIAA safe, but they want a high fee and an entire selection to choose from is only two songs.. The fee includes MP3 downloads of the songs which is nice as you don't have to buy the entire album. I'll stick to static displays or silent annimation for now until things improve.
Not all RIAA music is Justin Timberlake-equese crap. I happen to mostly listen to modern/hard rock. Quite a few of the bands that I like (Nickelback) are signed to RIAA members. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of a genre of music that doesn't have at least one or two prominent bands/artists signed to RIAA members.
Not all good music is on RIAA labels. In the RIAA litigation campaign, I have used RIAA radar to make my choices as the marketplace can send them a very strong message. The RIAA sometimes knows to turn a blind eye. For example, animated Christmas lights are popular on youtube. The earliest one to be a hit was the Carson Williams house. (look it up) This awesome lightshow had a soundtrack and it was by an RIAA label artist. Here was an entire song posted online. It was distributed to millions. At the home it was broadcast on the airwaves on low power FM. Care to take a stab at the legal paperwork, fees, contracts, etc are required to do this without breaking any copyright law? Did the label or artist sue?
The answer is not only did the RIAA not sue, but the songwriter and performers gave Carson Williams VIP treatment to their touring concert. Compare this to the artist formally known as Prince and a less than 30 second clip of a toddler dancing to a tune on a boom box.
The popularity of the show did raise legal questions. The maker of the automation software in cooperation with the band now has agreements to llicense the performance rights to some of the songs. If you decide to do an annimated light show and post the result online, be sure to get the proper license. Don't animate to a song you don't have a license for. It exposes you to either praise by the band or legal problems.
On this page, you can get the sequences for the lights. They have a contract with TSO. You buy the CD, rip it and use it for your show. It's OK. For other artists they best describe the deal as under negotiation. Which simply means they are fighting of the money. If you use another song and don't have a contract, and post the result online, expect a call from a lawyer for the money.
http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html "IMPORTANT --- YOU MUST DOWNLOAD individual sequences. (Packages are mailed on CD). At the end of the ordering process you will see one BLUE DOWNLOAD button for each individual sequence purchased.
Click Here for Free TSO Sequences!
License rights for additional songs are currently under negotiation and they will be added to this page as contracts are signed."
The sequence of most artists with an agreement are about $30/song for the performance rights as indicated on this page. "http://store.lightorama.com/dehabymast.html
Includes a 16 channel sequence file, 32 channel sequence file and a MP3 Audio file encoded at 128kbps.
Once you have completed your checkout there will be a BLUE DOWNLOAD BUTTON and you can immediately download your sequence.
If there is not a download button present after checkout, that indicates that you credit card requires additional verification. This should take less than 24 hours at which time you can download your sequences.
For best lighting effect: Connect your lights horizontally or vertically in channel number order. If you use the 32 channel sequence the first 16 channels are on Unit "01" and the second 16 channels are on Unit "02". Set your Unit IDs appropriately.
Sequence $29.95
If you roll your own, be careful. It could be a RIAA nightmare.
I used the Mannheim Steamroller example as they are currently on the RIAA Radar page as safe. I haven't checked the entire list of songs on the site to see if any are RIAA labels except TSO which is on an RIAA label which is why
This is good in my humble opinion, perhaps it is time for radio to stop playing RIAA's JUNK and start playing REAL music from REAL artists and compensate them directly without the MA****... er, I mean the record companies as middle hand..
I think an industry shake-up is beginning. The RIAA is an expensive middleman. The radio stations promote artists. If the radio stations have to pay to play, then the library of music is now based partly on cost to play. The free advertisements have just vanished. The real artists (independent) will self promote on myspace and youtube. The radio stations will then need to find music to play. They can either pay rates for RIAA members, or offer to promote independent artists demo tapes for free. I can see many stations becoming popular just by promoting hot new acts. Watch the established industry with a product for sale sit on the sidelines while new acts promotional materials pass them by.
The RIAA has opened a can of worms on this one. The counter inspection of recording contracts is going to hurt them. Many artists may get liberated from the RIAA contracts to continue doing business as an independent. Those who stay in RIAA contracts will still have to deal with the RIAA radar and the backlash of the litigation campaign.
The RIAA public relations is badly hurt at this point. They haven't figured out that when you find yourself in a deep hole to quit digging.
So this friend of mine wants to know if you disable the porn filtering part.
Tell your friend No. I just use the DNS addresses in my router as is. It's install free, configuration free and compatible with all my boxes from Windows 95/98, Linux, XP and the wife's Vista. If your friend wants customized filtering, try Open DNS. Much malware lurks in the shady parts of porn. There are lots free video codecs required to play their video that are more than just a video codec. It's best to stay away and not install any untrusted software.
Just for grins I looked to see if any unlucky bloke would start getting demand letters in the mail. Google maps returned; "Your search for 4882 Prudence Street, near Farmington Hills, MI 48335 did not match any locations.
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords."
This BS detector might be useful for sellers who get a ship to which isn't the same as the billing address.
Thanks Raymond A Carnie, but that is only good for the phishers you don't fall for.
I found that a popular porn filter is very good at weeding out fake business sites such as the fake pay pal and ebay fakes. This adds a strong layer of protection. They may send me a direct link to their fantastic deal on ebay, but when I get the scrubit page instead of ebay, then there is no way to give them real info by accident. Filtered internet is good for more than keeping the kids from surfing porn all day.
I have tried to go to some of the more obvious fakes to poison their login collection spoof site, but my DNS filter is often in the way. If you encounter a bad site, they have a quick browser button that you can add to immediately add a site to the scrub list. It's fast and works well. It's kind of like a RBL for websites instead of email spam.
Slashdot Mirror
Mercuries rotation is synchronized with its' orbit in such a fashion that the same portion always faces towards/away from the sun.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mercury/
"Until 1962 it was thought that Mercury's "day" was the same length as its "year" so as to keep that same face to the Sun much as the Moon does to the Earth. But this was shown to be false in 1965 by doppler radar observations. It is now known that Mercury rotates three times in two of its years. Mercury is the only body in the solar system known to have an orbital/rotational resonance with a ratio other than 1:1 (though many have no resonances at all)."
Your computer is now stoned.
Wow, talk about an old virus. I think I still have that one on a floppy somewhere. I remember studying that one. I did a fresh DOS install to infect. When I was done, it was removed by booting a clean floppy and re-partitioning, formatting and reinstalling. I took no chances with that one. For those who are not familiar with the phrase;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_(computer_virus)
Consumer CD copiers which were available in this period respected the copy protection and didn't allow the creation of second-generation copies.
That was classified as an audio device, not a computer data drive. As such, it suffered the same fate as the DAT. Computers did what audio gear wouldn't. Computers were used for writing discs, not consumer grade useless CD copiers. The consumer grade CD copier required the Audio CDR. The computer could care less and would make an audio CD on either a Data CDR or Audio CDR. Again, the computer was tops in the task. It is unencumbered by the restrictions on digital audio recorders.
Vista is trying to put the genie back into the bottle with high def and protected formats. As such, it is picking up many of the functionality flaws of DOA audio equipment of the past.
CDDAs have a form of copy protection almost identical to that described in the wikipedia article you link to, so I don't think you argument entirely makes sense.
The protection you refer to is in the formatting, not the data. If you simply do a Digital Audio extraction, then the formatting is removed. This leaves you with a 16 bit 44.1Khz PCM audio data file. This can be captured in several ways in the ripping process. DAO is one. SPDIF output is another. Tying directly to the D/A converter and logging the writes with a bitgrabber is another. At the D/A converter it is serial 16Bit data with a serial clock pin and right/left pin. It isn't hard.
Here is a typical 18 bit dual channel A/D converter. All you need to capture is the clock, serial data and latch for both channels. At this component you have audio data, not formatting, subcodes, toc and other non audio data.
http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/AD1865.pdf PDF alert.
I am glad you get it. You burn tons of coal and then using sunlight get back a couple gallons of fuel. Using solar heat to simply replace burned coal makes a lot more sense to me. I do understand that a few solar panels is not going to cut the coal consumption by much. Many greenies simply believe that once the process is perfected a small amount of sunlight will replace the tons of energy released in burning coal and reclaim all the CO2. It can be done, we just need to improve efficiency.
Look up over unity. It's this group who have all the answers on how to do it.
http://oupower.com/
http://www.phact.org/e/z/freewire.htm
http://www.energyvortex.com/energydictionary/overunity_energy.html
http://www.overunity.com/
I'm still wondering why biologists continue to use lab rats to experiment on when there's so damned many lawyers about...
Pure economics. Priced any good rats lately? Priced any good lawyers lately? For the few things that a lab rat won't do, there are plenty of lawyers to chose from. Bring your wallet.
Recorded some shows to send to my young Son to watch in our second language. Trouble is: The new Sharp DVD Recorders save everything in copy-protected format that aren't playable on any other systems.
Thanks for the info. DRM will only survive in an open market if alternatives are outlawed. Defective products don't sell the momemt a working alternative appears. Remember the DAT? DAT by law required Serial Copy Management..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System
Computer hardware unencumbered by the broken format simply bypassed the DAT which rightfully died in the cradle. Computer CD drives gave way to CDR's which didn't include the restriction.
If a single vendor solution is broken, continue to look at alternatives. For me the alternative is a PVR-150 capture card in a Linux machine followed by my editor of choice and DVD author of choice to a DVD drive of my choice. DRM free and region free DVD creation is not that hard. Ask around. Some hardware is more friendly than others.
Since you dropped a brand name, I'll mention my technophobe wife. (I know.. Slashdot and wife..) She needed a simple solution. For her it is simply a Magnavox MWR20V6. She shoots the grandkids using a camcorder. Making a DVD is as simple as playing back the tape and pushing record on the DVD recorder (after selecting line in instead of a TV channel). Menu creation is very basic and she needs to remember to finalize the disk. To pass out copies, a simple right click in a linux box using copy to file and then on the ISO copy to disk is the fast way to make duplicates to pass to relatives. Making an iso and making lots of copies from the iso is a very simple process and much faster than any other way I have duplicated DVDs on a budget.
I like Linux as much as the next person (and use Ubuntu on 2 desktops), the the idea that the Linux on the desktop has doubled in 2007 is absurd.
An of those desktops, how many were you using in 2006? I had played with a couple distros before last year, but they simply were not a replacement for anything. Last year I converted my old PIII machine, an IMB Thinkpad, and put Ubuntu on my new homebuilt Core 2 Duo box. In the process, I have helped a bunch of people switch. There are many who abandoned old versions of Windows and upgraded to Linux last year. Last year is the first year Linux is my primary OS, not a toy.
It's out there and it's free. I know of a couple people using it instead of old versions of Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
The real threat is spelled competition. It is more than just both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition
Toss in a failed Vista Launch and stable alternatives including Apple, IBM OS/2, etc. They all eat at the pie that once was Microsoft's domain.
The real problem is everyone is worried about which one will become Beta and which will become VHS that only the extreme early adopters and easily swayed have bought into one. I've had salesmen specifically tell me not to buy Blue-Ray or HDDVD until one of them wins the war. Them telling people this costs them money, and yet they continue to do it.
From what I've seen, the war is not so much VHS vs Betamax. Both those formats got great traction. With the adoption rates against the established standards, the war looks more line of RCA Selectivision capacitive disc verses the Pioneer Laserdisc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc
Both of these tried to compete with videotape and lost. How would you like to have a box of RCA Selectivision movies? It isn't the price of the player that's the entire problem. It's being stuck with a box of expensive unsupported dead movies.
So why not just buy one, get movies for that format and if the one you choose doesn't turn out to be the winner, buy the other player when it's cheap, too. It's not that big of an investment.
The same reason I have been dissapointed with my Laserdisc purchase. The promises were big. The movies could be pressed much cheaper than making a tape. The format was free from copyguard as it conformed to the NTSC spec at broadcast quality.
Royalties and reluctant movie studios killed it. I was rewarded with poor selection at high prices, much like anything HD now. I have learned from my mistake. I have a $1000 player, and a library of less than 8 movies in that format. (that's less than a movie a year for those counting. VHS movies fell from $35 to under $15 for most movies, while Laserdisc movies became a premium video item with movies starting at $60 and up. DVD's hit the price points that laserdisc never did, but they came with evil DMCA protection and region coding.
No.. Bill wouldn't have linked to this page.. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp in response to "Linux (all flavors still constitute less than 1%) .
Even though he didn't mention the 1% linux OS is much larger than 1%, anybody who decided to actualy check the link. Nov 2007 Linux OS... 3.3% I don't think Bill would have provided a link to that page for us.
Will it blend?
It's too big to fit inside the blender. A better question is will it shred?
http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm
My neighbor, who isn't really decked out as much as some, said his bill will be over $600 more this months for his lighting scheme. OUCH.
I've gone completely to LEDs this year. The 60 bulb strings I use draw a total of 2 Watts/string. At $0.12 per KWH, the 200 strings take 12 cents for each 2 and a half hours, or about $1.00 per evening. I even stuck a string in the back window of my car. I swapped out the blue for white as a few years ago I ran a red/white/blue set in support of our troups, but got pulled over for displaying a blue light. If you do christmas lights on a car, don't display any blue bulbs. I didn't get a ticket as the officer could see it's purpose and just educated me.
Ditch the C5, C7 and C9 bulbs. Last year I did blue. This year I'm doing white with some multicolor trim. Next year will probably include annimation, which increases the power for the computer, but reduces the average load for lights. If I run off my old Windows 2K laptop, the computer power will be less than 65 Watts. The initial investment is higher, but I find fewer failures except in some early strings which seem to have a high failure rate for green LEDs.
I wondered about all that, and I have noticed some very important things happening at the Ligts-O-Rama website. Ever since the Carson Williams lightshow stood the internet on fire for crazy annimated lights, the question was raised. The first big dilema was with TSO who has a record label which is a member of the RIAA... Ohh bad news. At the time not many have heard of TSO.. The online free publicity has been a godsend to TSO, who publicly praised the lightsohow and gave Carson Willmans red carpet treatment to one of their concerts. This put the label and the RIAA in a fix.. Attack or grin and bear it? The TSO invite made an attack a bad move. But what about all the others that are sure to follow....
The first thing to happen in the back room was to get the software and lighting folks on board to avoid legal issues that could damage their business for making avaliable the technology. Who needs a RIO lawsuit?
The outcome is a licensing agreement. The TSO sequences are free to use with the lights-o-rama program. You must buy your own legal copy of the CD to rip it for the show. Lights-o-Rama is in negotiations with other bands and labels for additional material. Unfortunately, most have decided this can be a real money maker.. and for a fee of about $30 for most of the listed tunes, you can get a performance license for your show. Lucy and Linus is one of the approved songs. Just don't do a show without buying the license. Don't do a show without a license. Not all musicians and lables have warmed up to the idea. I would not recommend any shows to any tunes by the artist formaly known as Prince. That could get ugly, especialy if posted on youtube.
Here is a direct link to the fees for the public performance fees including a list of the songs and artists. The list is short to say the least.. A pathetic list of ten total songs to choose from.. Come on guys, lighten up a little on the licensing..
http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html
Here is a link to the FREE TSO sequences. Remember, use a legal copy of the TSO track, not a limewire download. My head was about to explode on this one. TSO is wonderful for starting the ball rolling on this and dragging along the label and RIAA. But the songs are on RIAA member labels.. Do I buy it to suport TSO or avoid it because it's an RIAA label??? My head is going to explode!
http://www.lightorama.com/FreeTSO.html
This page explains clearly the need to purchase the CD. I have considered doing a show, but have been stopped by the licensing issues.
I am considering doing a Mannheim Steamroller track because they are RIAA safe, but they want a high fee and an entire selection to choose from is only two songs.. The fee includes MP3 downloads of the songs which is nice as you don't have to buy the entire album. I'll stick to static displays or silent annimation for now until things improve.
and a yearly cost of $20,000 (more profit!).
OK you have the first decade covered. Care to archive Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, and Gone with the Wind? They are a tad over a decade old.
20K/year X how many years?
If moths don't eat the original French postcards and ASCII printouts, they should last quite a while. The new digital stuff is the problem.
Anyone with a good Underwood should be able to duplicate the ASCII stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_Typewriter_Company
Not all RIAA music is Justin Timberlake-equese crap. I happen to mostly listen to modern/hard rock. Quite a few of the bands that I like (Nickelback) are signed to RIAA members. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of a genre of music that doesn't have at least one or two prominent bands/artists signed to RIAA members.
Not all good music is on RIAA labels. In the RIAA litigation campaign, I have used RIAA radar to make my choices as the marketplace can send them a very strong message. The RIAA sometimes knows to turn a blind eye. For example, animated Christmas lights are popular on youtube. The earliest one to be a hit was the Carson Williams house. (look it up) This awesome lightshow had a soundtrack and it was by an RIAA label artist. Here was an entire song posted online. It was distributed to millions. At the home it was broadcast on the airwaves on low power FM. Care to take a stab at the legal paperwork, fees, contracts, etc are required to do this without breaking any copyright law? Did the label or artist sue?
The answer is not only did the RIAA not sue, but the songwriter and performers gave Carson Williams VIP treatment to their touring concert. Compare this to the artist formally known as Prince and a less than 30 second clip of a toddler dancing to a tune on a boom box.
The popularity of the show did raise legal questions. The maker of the automation software in cooperation with the band now has agreements to llicense the performance rights to some of the songs. If you decide to do an annimated light show and post the result online, be sure to get the proper license. Don't animate to a song you don't have a license for. It exposes you to either praise by the band or legal problems.
On this page, you can get the sequences for the lights. They have a contract with TSO. You buy the CD, rip it and use it for your show. It's OK. For other artists they best describe the deal as under negotiation. Which simply means they are fighting of the money. If you use another song and don't have a contract, and post the result online, expect a call from a lawyer for the money.
http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html
"IMPORTANT --- YOU MUST DOWNLOAD individual sequences. (Packages are mailed on CD). At the end of the ordering process you will see one BLUE DOWNLOAD button for each individual sequence purchased.
Click Here for Free TSO Sequences!
License rights for additional songs are currently under negotiation and they will be added to this page as contracts are signed."
The sequence of most artists with an agreement are about $30/song for the performance rights as indicated on this page.
"http://store.lightorama.com/dehabymast.html
Arranged and Performed by Chip Davis
from the album entitled Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
Provided by American Gramaphone L.L.C.
©1984 American Gramaphone
©1984 Dots & Lines, Inc. (SESAC)
Includes a 16 channel sequence file, 32 channel sequence file and a MP3 Audio file encoded at 128kbps.
Once you have completed your checkout there will be a BLUE DOWNLOAD BUTTON and you can immediately download your sequence.
If there is not a download button present after checkout, that indicates that you credit card requires additional verification. This should take less than 24 hours at which time you can download your sequences.
For best lighting effect: Connect your lights horizontally or vertically in channel number order. If you use the 32 channel sequence the first 16 channels are on Unit "01" and the second 16 channels are on Unit "02". Set your Unit IDs appropriately.
Sequence $29.95
If you roll your own, be careful. It could be a RIAA nightmare.
I used the Mannheim Steamroller example as they are currently on the RIAA Radar page as safe. I haven't checked the entire list of songs on the site to see if any are RIAA labels except TSO which is on an RIAA label which is why
This is good in my humble opinion, perhaps it is time for radio to stop playing RIAA's JUNK and start playing REAL music from REAL artists and compensate them directly without the MA****... er, I mean the record companies as middle hand..
I think an industry shake-up is beginning. The RIAA is an expensive middleman. The radio stations promote artists. If the radio stations have to pay to play, then the library of music is now based partly on cost to play. The free advertisements have just vanished. The real artists (independent) will self promote on myspace and youtube. The radio stations will then need to find music to play. They can either pay rates for RIAA members, or offer to promote independent artists demo tapes for free. I can see many stations becoming popular just by promoting hot new acts. Watch the established industry with a product for sale sit on the sidelines while new acts promotional materials pass them by.
The RIAA has opened a can of worms on this one. The counter inspection of recording contracts is going to hurt them. Many artists may get liberated from the RIAA contracts to continue doing business as an independent. Those who stay in RIAA contracts will still have to deal with the RIAA radar and the backlash of the litigation campaign.
The RIAA public relations is badly hurt at this point. They haven't figured out that when you find yourself in a deep hole to quit digging.
So this friend of mine wants to know if you disable the porn filtering part.
Tell your friend No. I just use the DNS addresses in my router as is. It's install free, configuration free and compatible with all my boxes from Windows 95/98, Linux, XP and the wife's Vista. If your friend wants customized filtering, try Open DNS. Much malware lurks in the shady parts of porn. There are lots free video codecs required to play their video that are more than just a video codec. It's best to stay away and not install any untrusted software.
http://www.opendns.com/
Just for grins I looked to see if any unlucky bloke would start getting demand letters in the mail. Google maps returned;
"Your search for 4882 Prudence Street, near Farmington Hills, MI 48335 did not match any locations.
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords."
This BS detector might be useful for sellers who get a ship to which isn't the same as the billing address.
Thanks Raymond A Carnie, but that is only good for the phishers you don't fall for.
I found that a popular porn filter is very good at weeding out fake business sites such as the fake pay pal and ebay fakes. This adds a strong layer of protection. They may send me a direct link to their fantastic deal on ebay, but when I get the scrubit page instead of ebay, then there is no way to give them real info by accident. Filtered internet is good for more than keeping the kids from surfing porn all day.
I have tried to go to some of the more obvious fakes to poison their login collection spoof site, but my DNS filter is often in the way. If you encounter a bad site, they have a quick browser button that you can add to immediately add a site to the scrub list. It's fast and works well. It's kind of like a RBL for websites instead of email spam.
http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2007/browsing_info.html
http://www.scrubit.com/
I wish I had about ohhh 10 gallons of ink. Its not so much to ask... blah...
I get my ink here. It's less than $100/gallon for HP ink.
http://www.atlascopy.com/refills/bulkhp.htm
They are there, no one but the dog can hear them but they are there and the mic picks them up not well but it picks up 33Khz.
Not all mic's. Most vocal microphones do not go that high. Check the spec.
The old industry band vocal mic, the Sure SM58 response is here;
http://www.shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_sm58_large.gif
Sure SM57;
http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/sm57-0e448d5589fdc8d6658bd863b801f637.pdf
The newer Sure vocal mics are here;
Sure PG58 http://cachepe.samedaymusic.com/media/pg58-d7a8418e0d8d830ff025d91f4eef8a58.pdf
Sure PG48 http://www.shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_PG48_large.gif
Even ditching a dynamic for the better condensor mic gives this response;
http://www.americanmusical.com/manuals/shure/shusm86_userguide.pdf
Some instermentation microphones may extend into the ultrasonic range, but most are flat through 20HZ-20KHZ with a rapid roll-off above 20KHZ.