He did RTFM, as you would have seen if you bothered to read his post fully before going off on your rant about asking/. for help. More correctly, though, I think you meant RTFF (read the friggin' FAQ). But moreover I think that you should be more concerned with his question even MAKING onto a headline on/. After all, if it is such a worthless question, why would it have found its way into the headlines? Seeing as how his post bothered you SO much I would think that you would have just ignored it. In the time that it took you to research his question and find the solution you could have been doing something a little more productive. I am inclined to believe that you were out looking for flamebait and couldn't come up with anything better.
Naturally the ripper owns the cd and thus can make any mp3s from it that s/he wants. The proceeds should, ideally, go partially to the RIAA to shut them up, but in any case if napster can start charging fees, why can't the uploaders get compensated as well?
Interesting, but what if that quality tag also included the file name? That way only a specific format of file names would be used. Searching would be easier and once you have your song it could be changed to whatever you want provided you don't try to upload it to somebody else because the tag would be checked for security reasons. It works for me....
I have been thinking about this for some time and have come to the conclusion that I can't find a single thing wrong with it. So here goes:
What if napster started charging a small fee, say 5-10 cents per download, and a percentage of that say 2 or 3 cents went to the uploader?
Proprietary software could be issued for ripping mp3's from a cd and tagging them in the beginning and the end with a "quality code" so that if at the end of the download both are not present then the song is said to be incomplete and therefor not considered downloaded.
People make money by hosting songs. People paya fair amount of money for their mp3's and everyone is happy.
If 100 people a day were to download from me then that would be about $2-3 and in a month I would have enough to cover the cost of my bandwidth! (And buy more cd's to rip)...
Fuck dealing with BMG... Anyone see anything that I'm missing?
1) Patents are only binding in the United States, yes?
2) Every country would love to get their hands on this.
3) Say someone were to purchase the rights to use this product... Would they be able to turn around and give the technology away for free? (Assuming they lived in another country...)
Actually that was spelled GATTACA and was an anagram based on the four base pairs of DNA - Adenine Guanine Cytosine and Thymine. Just a clarification...
most words are back and forth, left right left right
Actually, i think its just probability that 50% of the letters used are going to be on the other half of the keyboard... =)
But now that keyboards aren't intended mainly for those mechanical typewriters who would jam up and computer response time is in milliseconds can't we switch to a abcdef... format? Even if it is just for a few of us wierdos?
QWERTY is nice, don't get me wrong, how else could I hax0r pa55w0rds so fast if everybody didn't use that damn keyboard acronym?
This actually seems like it could be a little dangerous for Sega. How hard would it be for somebody to hook the Dreamcast up to their pc via serial or ethernet and do something like this?
dd if=/dev/gdrom of=/dev/serial
or
mount -t gdrom/dev/gdrom/mnt/SOME_GAME
ftp ftp.mywarezsite.net
send/mnt/SOME_GAME/*.*
etc... etc...
Well, you get the point. The bootlegged games are already flowing from special groups on the net with the equiptment to make backup images, but this can just put the power in all of our hands. Oh wait, that could be a good thing! Besides, I can't wait for a port of XArchon for the DC!
How long, I wonder, before some of these hacks start appearing in aada's Aqua etheme. Also, does anyone know of a mirror for his web site because it appears to be down and I would really like to remove that damn icon bar on the lower left-hand side of the screen.
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He did RTFM, as you would have seen if you bothered to read his post fully before going off on your rant about asking /. for help. More correctly, though, I think you meant RTFF (read the friggin' FAQ). But moreover I think that you should be more concerned with his question even MAKING onto a headline on /. After all, if it is such a worthless question, why would it have found its way into the headlines? Seeing as how his post bothered you SO much I would think that you would have just ignored it. In the time that it took you to research his question and find the solution you could have been doing something a little more productive. I am inclined to believe that you were out looking for flamebait and couldn't come up with anything better.
Ever had a morning where you were not kissed and told "I love you," when the night before you SCREWED so wildly that you could not remember?
Inquiring minds want to know...
We must collectively have the equivelent of 8 or so OC12's
... of a new discrimination. We already have sexual harassment, racial profiling, etcetera, etcetera... Do we REALLY need IP discrimination as well?
"Liberate tu te me ex inferes!"
Now if only they would make some rpg's for the DC that DON'T look and feel like evolution. c'mon, what ever happened to originality?
I've got icebox.com. It's only a matter of time before everyone starts going to the internet for their primary source of entertainment.
Whaddya think? How long before this one comes out?
Naturally the ripper owns the cd and thus can make any mp3s from it that s/he wants. The proceeds should, ideally, go partially to the RIAA to shut them up, but in any case if napster can start charging fees, why can't the uploaders get compensated as well?
Interesting, but what if that quality tag also included the file name? That way only a specific format of file names would be used. Searching would be easier and once you have your song it could be changed to whatever you want provided you don't try to upload it to somebody else because the tag would be checked for security reasons. It works for me....
What if napster started charging a small fee, say 5-10 cents per download, and a percentage of that say 2 or 3 cents went to the uploader?
Proprietary software could be issued for ripping mp3's from a cd and tagging them in the beginning and the end with a "quality code" so that if at the end of the download both are not present then the song is said to be incomplete and therefor not considered downloaded.
People make money by hosting songs. People paya fair amount of money for their mp3's and everyone is happy.
If 100 people a day were to download from me then that would be about $2-3 and in a month I would have enough to cover the cost of my bandwidth! (And buy more cd's to rip)...
Fuck dealing with BMG... Anyone see anything that I'm missing?
1) Patents are only binding in the United States, yes?
2) Every country would love to get their hands on this.
3) Say someone were to purchase the rights to use this product... Would they be able to turn around and give the technology away for free? (Assuming they lived in another country...)
I thought (depending on your religion) that God held the patent on Thumbnails and all fingernails and body parts for that matter....
Actually that was spelled GATTACA and was an anagram based on the four base pairs of DNA - Adenine Guanine Cytosine and Thymine. Just a clarification...
So somebody could fire me because I have a gene for black skin? Interesting....
At least maybe now they can afford to hire engineers that know when to use SI versus when to use something else. Satellites are pretty expensive... =)
The birth of Christ is going to be overshadowed by the coming of the anticrhist. Merry Antichristmas?
The official website is here at, you guessed it, www.crouchingtiger.com. It's flash enhanced, too. Looks like an awesome movie.
most words are back and forth, left right left right Actually, i think its just probability that 50% of the letters used are going to be on the other half of the keyboard... =)
But now that keyboards aren't intended mainly for those mechanical typewriters who would jam up and computer response time is in milliseconds can't we switch to a abcdef... format? Even if it is just for a few of us wierdos? QWERTY is nice, don't get me wrong, how else could I hax0r pa55w0rds so fast if everybody didn't use that damn keyboard acronym?
... being advertised in the next issue of high times.
I don't think so... Spend $100 in radio shack, ebay free cable modem for $60. Yup, that about sums it up right there...
... a 6 disc changer in your car that is connected to your mp3 player... Right.....
This actually seems like it could be a little dangerous for Sega. How hard would it be for somebody to hook the Dreamcast up to their pc via serial or ethernet and do something like this?
/dev/gdrom /mnt/SOME_GAME
/mnt/SOME_GAME/*.*
dd if=/dev/gdrom of=/dev/serial
or
mount -t gdrom
ftp ftp.mywarezsite.net
send
etc... etc...
Well, you get the point. The bootlegged games are already flowing from special groups on the net with the equiptment to make backup images, but this can just put the power in all of our hands. Oh wait, that could be a good thing! Besides, I can't wait for a port of XArchon for the DC!
How long, I wonder, before some of these hacks start appearing in aada's Aqua etheme. Also, does anyone know of a mirror for his web site because it appears to be down and I would really like to remove that damn icon bar on the lower left-hand side of the screen.