I haven't bought any this year. I used to buy a couple per week. I have 61 mp3 files (I just looked) on my computer. I have thousands of ogg files, all ripped from my own cds. I don't buy fewer cds because I'm stealing music, I buy fewer because
a) I don't much care for what the studios are producing these days, and
b) I've got other things to spend my money on besides cds that may only contain one or two decent songs.
Piracy is an easy scapegoat, but as long as they believe that piracy is the cause of all their ills, they will continue to lose revenue and must eventually figure it out or die.
When it couldn't properly be ripped for the MP3 player, they learned to look for the label also."
I just take it back and exchange it for another copy of the same CD, since this one's defective. What? This one is defective, too? Well, let's try one more...just one more...this time for sure. What do mean you're out of the CD?
Now, at least no one else will get a defective copy from that store...
"I think the reason sales of CD's are down is because people are disgusted with the behavior of the Music industry."
There's that...but there's also the fact that there are *other* things to spend your money on, and the recording industry hasn't figured it out. They're selling fewer albums today (notice I didn't say they were making less money), so people *must* be pirating the music rampantly. Uh-huh.
If I was a college student (without $12000 in the bank!) and only had, say, $25 dollars a week to spend on entertainment, what are my choices? Back in my day, *grin* maybe I would bought a couple LP's or gone on a date. Today, a student is torn between a CD...or a DVD or a game for his PC or a game for his Gameboy or going on that date (might have to save up a bit) or...well, you get the idea. There's a multitude of industries competing for the entertainment dollar today, and they are going to dilute the amount of cash that traditionally went for records and movies.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that today's music (for the most part) sucks, and that many people simply do not buy CD's any more because they don't care for what the RIAA and its ilk are peddling.
BTW, you old guys...remember when the new CD players were $1000 and the CD's were $15? And now CD players are $20 and CD's are...still $15. So much for economy of scale. Poor, poor record industry...
And as a person with a brother-in-law who is unfortunate enough to have a number of maladies (and therefore has had the occasion to be treated by a larger number of doctors than the average person, I can tell you that the incidence level of ending up with a sub-par physician is much, much greater than you (or I) would have thought possible.
People often say, "well, they're just human." Yes, yes they are. Thieves and con artists and dolts are human, too, and it seems that eight or ten years of college does not sufficiently filter them out of the medical profession.
I'm wondering if, when your grandmom gets out of the joint, if she's going to restricted from using any sewing machines, much in the same way that Mitnick was restricted from computers...
"Give your platform its due credit, but don't pimp the GUI as one of its strong points, because it wasn't, ever, not in any incarnation"
Bullshit. AmigaDos was, in its later versions, elegant. Even 1.3 was better than the alternatives at the time, even if it wasn't as pretty (that color scheme!). By the time Commodore's management was running off to the Bahamas with everyone's money, R&D had already been shut down for a year. Even then there was nothing available that could touch it for doing real work. It's easy to bad-mouth something just because it didn't succeed in the marketplace; those of us that used it, and remember what we were forced to use at work will always recall the frustration of having to use an OS (at work) that was infinitely inferior to what we used at home.
After all, in 2001 the best-selling automobile was the Ford Escort...I guess that means it must have been the best, right?
Maybe you didn't notice, but geeks spend money, too. I'll buy the Neuros (http://www.neurosaudio.com/) before I'll buy a non-ogg player, no matter how sexy it is.
At $400+, I'm not buying a player that doesn't allow me to utilize my.ogg files. Especially when it's just a matter of changing the player's software. It's not worth it to me to rip all my cd's again, and to an inferior format.
But, human space travel is dangerous, no matter how commonplace the media makes it sound, and the men and women on the Columbia knew the risks.
And for the record, remember that this is the first time ever in the history of the U.S. space program that we've lost anyone on reentry. Pretty amazing, given the inherent dangers of blasting through the atmosphere at Mach 18.
For all the men and women who lost their lives pushing the limit for our greater understanding of space (and Earth): We will remember.
Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom Edward Higgins White Roger Bruce Chaffee
Francis R. "Dick" Scobee Michael J. Smith Ronald E. McNair Ellison S. Onizuka Judith A. Resnick Gregory B. Jarvis Christa McAuliffe
Rick D. Husband William C. McCool Michael P. Anderson David M. Brown Kalpana Chawla Laurel Clark Ilan Ramon
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,--and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless falls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew--
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
If your roll of film breaks, are you compensated beyond the value of the unexposed film? If your hard drive fails, are you compensated beyond the cost of the drive? Of course not. So how is this any different? No matter how many hours you've "invested," the value is still only $10 per month (if that).
Maybe I'm the only one who just doesn't see why having some sort of unique ID makes us into opressed citizens. Which freedom, exactly, would we be losing here?
You know, the Jews had a "unique ID" tattooed onto their arms. I'm sure they didn't mind too much...
"However, their encoding on those audio files is proprietary (a bad thing, since they can't be used on a personal MP3 player)"
How's that? You imply that proprietary is Bad but MP3 is Good. Guess what? MP3 IS proprietary. Download the 100K plugin for winamp and start encoding to.OGG format. Better sound, smaller size, and FREE (as in beer AND speech).
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I haven't bought any this year. I used to buy a couple per week. I have 61 mp3 files (I just looked) on my computer. I have thousands of ogg files, all ripped from my own cds. I don't buy fewer cds because I'm stealing music, I buy fewer because
a) I don't much care for what the studios are producing these days, and
b) I've got other things to spend my money on besides cds that may only contain one or two decent songs.
Piracy is an easy scapegoat, but as long as they believe that piracy is the cause of all their ills, they will continue to lose revenue and must eventually figure it out or die.
They are blind to their true problems.
And your point is...?
If my daughter downloads songs on my machine, will Hatch NOT blow mine up?
It's his site; it's his responsibility.
And what might the pay scale be, in some of these other 248 countries, pray tell?
"Apple NEVER made a PINK computer. In all its years of playing with different colors and different designs for its computer cases."
BZZZZZZT! Wrongo, bucko. They built a pink Newton eMate. http://www.splorp.com/newton/pink/
When it couldn't properly be ripped for the MP3 player, they learned to look for the label also."
I just take it back and exchange it for another copy of the same CD, since this one's defective. What? This one is defective, too? Well, let's try one more...just one more...this time for sure. What do mean you're out of the CD?
Now, at least no one else will get a defective copy from that store...
***whistling down the sidewalk***
"I think the reason sales of CD's are down is because people are disgusted with the behavior of the Music industry."
There's that...but there's also the fact that there are *other* things to spend your money on, and the recording industry hasn't figured it out. They're selling fewer albums today (notice I didn't say they were making less money), so people *must* be pirating the music rampantly. Uh-huh.
If I was a college student (without $12000 in the bank!) and only had, say, $25 dollars a week to spend on entertainment, what are my choices? Back in my day, *grin* maybe I would bought a couple LP's or gone on a date. Today, a student is torn between a CD...or a DVD or a game for his PC or a game for his Gameboy or going on that date (might have to save up a bit) or...well, you get the idea. There's a multitude of industries competing for the entertainment dollar today, and they are going to dilute the amount of cash that traditionally went for records and movies.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that today's music (for the most part) sucks, and that many people simply do not buy CD's any more because they don't care for what the RIAA and its ilk are peddling.
BTW, you old guys...remember when the new CD players were $1000 and the CD's were $15? And now CD players are $20 and CD's are...still $15. So much for economy of scale. Poor, poor record industry...
And as a person with a brother-in-law who is unfortunate enough to have a number of maladies (and therefore has had the occasion to be treated by a larger number of doctors than the average person, I can tell you that the incidence level of ending up with a sub-par physician is much, much greater than you (or I) would have thought possible.
People often say, "well, they're just human." Yes, yes they are. Thieves and con artists and dolts are human, too, and it seems that eight or ten years of college does not sufficiently filter them out of the medical profession.
"Was it this letter?"
Hmmm. It appears SCO has pulled the web page with the letter they sent to 1500 corporate Linux users.
I wonder if they're embarrassed...
I'm wondering if, when your grandmom gets out of the joint, if she's going to restricted from using any sewing machines, much in the same way that Mitnick was restricted from computers...
"Give your platform its due credit, but don't pimp the GUI as one of its strong points, because it wasn't, ever, not in any incarnation"
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Bullshit. AmigaDos was, in its later versions, elegant. Even 1.3 was better than the alternatives at the time, even if it wasn't as pretty (that color scheme!). By the time Commodore's management was running off to the Bahamas with everyone's money, R&D had already been shut down for a year. Even then there was nothing available that could touch it for doing real work. It's easy to bad-mouth something just because it didn't succeed in the marketplace; those of us that used it, and remember what we were forced to use at work will always recall the frustration of having to use an OS (at work) that was infinitely inferior to what we used at home.
After all, in 2001 the best-selling automobile was the Ford Escort...I guess that means it must have been the best, right?
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Maybe you didn't notice, but geeks spend money, too. I'll buy the Neuros (http://www.neurosaudio.com/) before I'll buy a non-ogg player, no matter how sexy it is.
.ogg files. Especially when it's just a matter of changing the player's software. It's not worth it to me to rip all my cd's again, and to an inferior format.
At $400+, I'm not buying a player that doesn't allow me to utilize my
Just remember what Fred von Lohmann said on the EFF site:
"Briefly, the music, movie, and publishing industry are trying to outlaw the use of computers to produce new ideas, and share current ideas."
I figure people can just remove the DRM section of code from their system. Try that on M$ or Apple.
DRM = DIGITAL REPRESSION MANDATE
"The more you tighten your grasp, the more slip through your fingers..."
I don't like it.
This will NOT lead us to the Golden Path.
According to this site: http://www.mixstix.com/ they already have ogg playback.
...then it's been over-extracted. Learn how to brew coffee.
Damn. Damn, damn, damn. This sucks.
But, human space travel is dangerous, no matter how commonplace the media makes it sound, and the men and women on the Columbia knew the risks.
And for the record, remember that this is the first time ever in the history of the U.S. space program that we've lost anyone on reentry. Pretty amazing, given the inherent dangers of blasting through the atmosphere at Mach 18.
For all the men and women who lost their lives pushing the limit for our greater understanding of space (and Earth): We will remember.
Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom
Edward Higgins White
Roger Bruce Chaffee
Francis R. "Dick" Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison S. Onizuka
Judith A. Resnick
Gregory B. Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
Rick D. Husband
William C. McCool
Michael P. Anderson
David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split
clouds,--and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless falls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew--
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
-- John Gillespie Maggee
I dunno...Linux works for me, and I only have a couple of computers. So much for the "economy of scale" theory.
...the more we slip through your fingers."
With apologies to Princess Leia...
If your roll of film breaks, are you compensated beyond the value of the unexposed film? If your hard drive fails, are you compensated beyond the cost of the drive? Of course not. So how is this any different? No matter how many hours you've "invested," the value is still only $10 per month (if that).
Mine says:
----- Driver Info -----
NVRM Version: 1.0-1512
------ Card Info ------
Model: GeForce2 MX
IRQ: 10
Video BIOS: 03.11.00.18
------ AGP Info -------
AGP status: Enabled
AGP Driver: NVIDIA
Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates: 2x 1x [2x]
Registers: 0x1f000203:0x00000102
Does this mean, since my AGP Driver is NVIDIA, not AGPGART, that I shouldn't have the problem?
Doesn't anyone test their code anymore??? I mean, how hard can this be?
Ashcroft can suck my dick.
A fellow Missourian
Maybe I'm the only one who just doesn't see why having some sort of unique ID makes us into opressed citizens. Which freedom, exactly, would we be losing here?
You know, the Jews had a "unique ID" tattooed onto their arms. I'm sure they didn't mind too much...
The concept is identical; only the technology has changed.
What difference the database created with one than the other?
"However, their encoding on those audio files is proprietary (a bad thing, since they can't be used on a personal MP3 player)"
.OGG format. Better sound, smaller size, and FREE (as in beer AND speech).
How's that? You imply that proprietary is Bad but MP3 is Good. Guess what? MP3 IS proprietary. Download the 100K plugin for winamp and start encoding to