If you need huge, dedicated bandwidth, I'd say buy a T-1 line, or pay for a business-class account.
Erm, a T1 is only 1.544mbps. That's hardly huge, dedicated bandwidth. It's about the same as the average cable cap. It sure isn't what the uncappers are shooting for.
My two year old loves the THX thing at the beginning of the widescreen versions, where the robot dude shakes the can and it goes "mooooo". She'll clap and cheer and say "Yay cow!" and then ask, "Nemo?" If I answer no, she says, "Monster movie!"
So yep, she'll know Pixar - and I'll feel much better about buying their products now that they're not pumping money into Disney. Heck, we might go see the next one in a theater. 'Tis a shame they didn't do this BEFORE Nemo, though. She really loves Nemo.
The FCC would have something to say if you tried promoting your music on the radio without permission of the RIAA. That's right, you cannot be played legally on the radio.
Not true. Plenty of non-RIAA bands get radio airplay. Lately, I hear Death Cab For Cutie so often I'm getting bored of them.
Also, there are very few (none that I know of) commercial outlets that sell music in any volume without specific authorization from the RIAA.
Really? Then where the hell are people buying all those copies of Warren Zevon's album "The Wind", which is on Artemis (a non-RIAA label)? .
Surely to God they will use a higher data rate than ATSC broadcast HDTV! If not, there won't be nearly the 'wow' factor A/B'ing the HD-DVD with legacy DVD. Of course, MPEG4 is a better codec, so maybe 19mbps will look awesome with it.
Also, if they have any sense, they will store the movie as 1080p. Displays capable of 1080p are coming out now, and it's a lot easier to downconvert or interlace as needed than to upconvert/deinterlace.
I also think Dolby Digital needs to be axed, or encoded at higher bitrates. There's no excuse for only using 384kbps audio anymore. Give us DTS, or better yet MLP (at least for music performances, movie soundtracks probably don't need it).
My co-worker just spent $38,000 on a 56" Samsung DLP.
Wow!! He got ripped! Does he still have time on his money-back guarantee? Tell him to return it, because I have one I'll sell him for $28,000. He'll save TEN GRAND!
Of course, I'll only pay $4,000 for it, but you don't have to tell him that!!
Actually, Occam's Razor suggests that your theories not include entities which are unnecesary. Thus, if you can explain the Universe without sticking a Supreme Being in your theories, you're following Occam's advice.
Of course, just because Occam's Razor seems to favor one theory over another doesn't mean that theory is correct, so use it with a grain of salt.
Well, someone else has already pointed out that it wasn't Dr. Scott, so I'll argue against the statement that Riff-Raff sang "most" of the song. Magenta sings very nearly the same amount of the song as Riff-Raff, and Columbia has a quick verse too. So Riff-Raff's part is perhaps about 40%.
And incidentally, it's Frank N. Furter.
Sad that we're discussing this in such detail on/.
It looks like the Nitrus plays MP3 and WMA. How is that "many more formats" than an iPod which plays MP3 and AAC? Last time I took a math class, two was equal to two.
Yeah, but it winds up being $1.40 a song or so to you Canucks, doesn't it? And, aren't you legally required to download 1 Barenaked Ladies or Tragically Hip song for every 2 American artists' songs?;)
There's another one that's about as cheap, Allofmp3.com. What's more, Allofmp3 does a slightly better job of properly tagging their files, which is important to some of us extremely anal music listeners.
Unfortunately, it's somewhat questionable whether it is legal for non-residents (of Spain for Weblisten, Russia for Allofmp3) to utilize these services. Of course, there's got to be an easier case to be made for their legality than for P2P.
I'm still there for now. Firstly, I didn't finish getting everything I wanted thanks to the congestion right before the limits went into effect. Secondly, they added some more stuff that I want shortly afterwards. Judging from my wish list now, I'll probably be around another three months, maybe only two if I take them up on the offer to get the first month of the $20 plan for $10.
Anyway, the downloading is much better since everyone else cancelled!
I'm still trying to determine if some of my older CD's from the 80's have begun to sound worse over time. Or were some just not recorded very well to start.
A lot of CD's from the 80s were of poor quality to start with. First off, A/D converters weren't as good then, and secondly the sound levels were often not set appropriately for best reproduction. Also, some of the first CD releases were made from old degraded studio tapes, many of which have since been restored or remastered so that recent re-releases sound better.
My impression was that they were legitimate, and that under Russian law, they can provide downloads under a royalty system similar to radio airplay in the US. This is assuming they're not totally full of shit, of course.
If that's true, and they are legal in Russia, I'm not sure what the implications are for US citizens using their service. I think the fact that the RIAA isn't making threats indicates that their lawyers haven't figured it out yet either.
Our advise is: NEVER use a credit card for purchases on the internet unless you are willing to take significant risks. Any credit card company WILL try everything to hold you personally responsible, even if they claim that they won't.
Bullshit. You're more likely to be a fraud victim because the waiter you've left a lousy tip wrote down your credit card number when he went to run your card. And for your second point, both my wife and I have had fraudulent charges on cards at one time or other. All you have to do is fill out an affidavit saying the charge was unauthorizaed, and they reverse the charge to your account, (almost) no questions asked. They'll usually also cancel the card and issue you a new one with a different number right away.
Actually, singles started out as being only two songs, one on each side. This was when CDs were made of black vinyl, were 7" or 12" in diameter, and were played with a needle instead of a laser. Oh, yeah, they were analog, not digital, then. At the time the prices were, oh, about a dollar if memory serves. See? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
During the brief period of time when music listeners were subjected to the cassette tape format, the singles were still generally two songs, but the manufacturing cost of the cassette jacked the prices up to $2-3 or so.
Then, when the new 5" digital CDs came out, it became more feasible to put more than 2 songs on a single, so we got to the point where 4 or 5 songs were common. The price got to around $5, but it was still worth it if you just knew that the rest of the album would suck.
Throughout the 90s, as the manufacturing costs of the new CDs went down, the prices went... up! Even though the record companies had promised that CDs would become cheaper once economies of scale kicked in. Singles are now $8, and whether or not there is anything but the main song on them is a moot point. Pretty much everyone with any sense has stopped buying singles. Well, until now - now iTMS sells singles at a decent price, and if I hear a song I like enough, I don't mind paying $1 for it.
I wouldn't count MS out, at least until version 3 of their music store comes out. Remember what a joke Internet Explorer v1.0 was? "Oh, Netscape has nothing to fear, IE isn't half as cool as Navigator!" we all said.
But there is a question left unanswered: What created the means for this scientific theory to exist? Solve that one, and you're left in a similar situation.
Not if the answer is "nothing". That is a valid answer - the Universe and everything in it could have just happened with no cause and no reason.
The existence of God is not something that can be proven logically. If it were, there would be no need for faith, and Jesus Himself said that without faith, He can do nothing.
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If you need huge, dedicated bandwidth, I'd say buy a T-1 line, or pay for a business-class account.
Erm, a T1 is only 1.544mbps. That's hardly huge, dedicated bandwidth. It's about the same as the average cable cap. It sure isn't what the uncappers are shooting for.
My two year old loves the THX thing at the beginning of the widescreen versions, where the robot dude shakes the can and it goes "mooooo". She'll clap and cheer and say "Yay cow!" and then ask, "Nemo?" If I answer no, she says, "Monster movie!"
So yep, she'll know Pixar - and I'll feel much better about buying their products now that they're not pumping money into Disney. Heck, we might go see the next one in a theater. 'Tis a shame they didn't do this BEFORE Nemo, though. She really loves Nemo.
Just watch Peyton Manning go to work and you'll see technical ability to match any hardcore geek...
I would, but he's not working any more. HA HA! Let's all point at Peyton and laugh....
The FCC would have something to say if you tried promoting your music on the radio without permission of the RIAA. That's right, you cannot be played legally on the radio.
Not true. Plenty of non-RIAA bands get radio airplay. Lately, I hear Death Cab For Cutie so often I'm getting bored of them.
Also, there are very few (none that I know of) commercial outlets that sell music in any volume without specific authorization from the RIAA.
Really? Then where the hell are people buying all those copies of Warren Zevon's album "The Wind", which is on Artemis (a non-RIAA label)?
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Surely to God they will use a higher data rate than ATSC broadcast HDTV! If not, there won't be nearly the 'wow' factor A/B'ing the HD-DVD with legacy DVD. Of course, MPEG4 is a better codec, so maybe 19mbps will look awesome with it.
Also, if they have any sense, they will store the movie as 1080p. Displays capable of 1080p are coming out now, and it's a lot easier to downconvert or interlace as needed than to upconvert/deinterlace.
I also think Dolby Digital needs to be axed, or encoded at higher bitrates. There's no excuse for only using 384kbps audio anymore. Give us DTS, or better yet MLP (at least for music performances, movie soundtracks probably don't need it).
My co-worker just spent $38,000 on a 56" Samsung DLP.
Wow!! He got ripped! Does he still have time on his money-back guarantee? Tell him to return it, because I have one I'll sell him for $28,000. He'll save TEN GRAND!
Of course, I'll only pay $4,000 for it, but you don't have to tell him that!!
I went into it once. It was nice to find out what a hoopy frood I really am!
Low frame rate, but incredibly high resolution. Which, if you think about it, is preferable for this application.
Actually, Occam's Razor suggests that your theories not include entities which are unnecesary. Thus, if you can explain the Universe without sticking a Supreme Being in your theories, you're following Occam's advice.
Of course, just because Occam's Razor seems to favor one theory over another doesn't mean that theory is correct, so use it with a grain of salt.
Well, someone else has already pointed out that it wasn't Dr. Scott, so I'll argue against the statement that Riff-Raff sang "most" of the song. Magenta sings very nearly the same amount of the song as Riff-Raff, and Columbia has a quick verse too. So Riff-Raff's part is perhaps about 40%.
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And incidentally, it's Frank N. Furter.
Sad that we're discussing this in such detail on
Damn, should have used preview. The second diagram should be something like
Light source -> mirror
ants <---------
Doesn't matter. If it can focus light, it can fry ants, it just has to be aimed differently.
Crude diagram follows:
Light source -> Lens -> ants
as opposed to
Light source -> mirror
ants -
It looks like the Nitrus plays MP3 and WMA. How is that "many more formats" than an iPod which plays MP3 and AAC? Last time I took a math class, two was equal to two.
Yeah, but it winds up being $1.40 a song or so to you Canucks, doesn't it? And, aren't you legally required to download 1 Barenaked Ladies or Tragically Hip song for every 2 American artists' songs? ;)
There's another one that's about as cheap, Allofmp3.com. What's more, Allofmp3 does a slightly better job of properly tagging their files, which is important to some of us extremely anal music listeners.
Unfortunately, it's somewhat questionable whether it is legal for non-residents (of Spain for Weblisten, Russia for Allofmp3) to utilize these services. Of course, there's got to be an easier case to be made for their legality than for P2P.
I'm still there for now. Firstly, I didn't finish getting everything I wanted thanks to the congestion right before the limits went into effect. Secondly, they added some more stuff that I want shortly afterwards. Judging from my wish list now, I'll probably be around another three months, maybe only two if I take them up on the offer to get the first month of the $20 plan for $10.
Anyway, the downloading is much better since everyone else cancelled!
I'm still trying to determine if some of my older CD's from the 80's have begun to sound worse over time. Or were some just not recorded very well to start.
A lot of CD's from the 80s were of poor quality to start with. First off, A/D converters weren't as good then, and secondly the sound levels were often not set appropriately for best reproduction. Also, some of the first CD releases were made from old degraded studio tapes, many of which have since been restored or remastered so that recent re-releases sound better.
Some of the readers of this site still fail to realize this is not the Borg hive-mind.
Of course not, it's a Beowulf cluster of... oh, never mind, that joke still sucks.
My impression was that they were legitimate, and that under Russian law, they can provide downloads under a royalty system similar to radio airplay in the US. This is assuming they're not totally full of shit, of course.
If that's true, and they are legal in Russia, I'm not sure what the implications are for US citizens using their service. I think the fact that the RIAA isn't making threats indicates that their lawyers haven't figured it out yet either.
Our advise is: NEVER use a credit card for purchases on the internet unless you are willing to take significant risks. Any credit card company WILL try everything to hold you personally responsible, even if they claim that they won't.
Bullshit. You're more likely to be a fraud victim because the waiter you've left a lousy tip wrote down your credit card number when he went to run your card. And for your second point, both my wife and I have had fraudulent charges on cards at one time or other. All you have to do is fill out an affidavit saying the charge was unauthorizaed, and they reverse the charge to your account, (almost) no questions asked. They'll usually also cancel the card and issue you a new one with a different number right away.
Actually, singles started out as being only two songs, one on each side. This was when CDs were made of black vinyl, were 7" or 12" in diameter, and were played with a needle instead of a laser. Oh, yeah, they were analog, not digital, then. At the time the prices were, oh, about a dollar if memory serves. See? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
During the brief period of time when music listeners were subjected to the cassette tape format, the singles were still generally two songs, but the manufacturing cost of the cassette jacked the prices up to $2-3 or so.
Then, when the new 5" digital CDs came out, it became more feasible to put more than 2 songs on a single, so we got to the point where 4 or 5 songs were common. The price got to around $5, but it was still worth it if you just knew that the rest of the album would suck.
Throughout the 90s, as the manufacturing costs of the new CDs went down, the prices went... up! Even though the record companies had promised that CDs would become cheaper once economies of scale kicked in. Singles are now $8, and whether or not there is anything but the main song on them is a moot point. Pretty much everyone with any sense has stopped buying singles. Well, until now - now iTMS sells singles at a decent price, and if I hear a song I like enough, I don't mind paying $1 for it.
I wouldn't count MS out, at least until version 3 of their music store comes out. Remember what a joke Internet Explorer v1.0 was? "Oh, Netscape has nothing to fear, IE isn't half as cool as Navigator!" we all said.
Nice mixed metaphor. Apple is a carpenter and baseball player at the same time!
But there is a question left unanswered: What created the means for this scientific theory to exist? Solve that one, and you're left in a similar situation.
Not if the answer is "nothing". That is a valid answer - the Universe and everything in it could have just happened with no cause and no reason.
The existence of God is not something that can be proven logically. If it were, there would be no need for faith, and Jesus Himself said that without faith, He can do nothing.
I had been hoping for a bridge.