I think you know what I mean, and I don't want to have the particular discussion that could easily ensue here.
In this context, I would mean any instrument that the artist uses to compose and record music on. Traditionally there'd be somewhere around 4 of these people that would create music.
Now, some unknown person composes a song entirely digitally, record company sticks a shiny face in front of it, records an audio track over it with them, and pawns it off on the masses.
Why does most of the crap on the radio sound the same? Well, in part because a ton of it is written by the same small group of people, though you'd never know unless you actually looked into it.
It used to be that bands would use session musicians to record certain tracks if they weren't actually up to the task themselves. Now this is applied to the entire process. It's a cookie cutter methodology.
On the other hand, I think that because of this, the indy band scene is just exploding everywhere...but the mainstream market isn't listening, and they really should be.
Did I say on under the table sales? Sheesh, holy pedantry batman.
Go talk to someone that owns a used disc shop.
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No, for the most part, new music is crap. (I'm talking mainstream here)
Who's touring these days? Just about every single one of the bands your parents grew up with that have enough members still alive and able to hold a guitar...not much else.
Who's putting out albums? Well, those 'retro' bands again for one. And the contrived band-in-a-box crap. And a million and one bands that consist of a 'pretty' face, cookie cutter songs, and not a single real instrument in sight.
Yes, as always, there are exceptions to the rule. But the mainstream music industry is absolutely and without a doubt WAYYYY out in left field these days.
Hopefully some of them finally realized as well that they've for the most part just been buying the same music they already bought in a number of other formats over the years.
At some point people have to notice that huge stack of CD's in the corner, and realize that they've blown a stupid amount of money over the past couple of years 'buying' it all again.
Thus I don't understand why you don't understand ogg.
The codec is open source. It's one of the very best lossy formats out there. Just about every game going uses it. FLAC is great, but not comparable. LAME is quite good, but really just another valid option for good lossy compression.
You like LAME, some others like ogg, to each their own...but please realize you're a minority bitching about another minority...doesn't make sense.
Law is supposed to benefit the public...interesting edict there...The general public? Interested public parties? Random sampling of the public?
Now, I do get what you're suggesting, however you're ignoring a very important part of your argument...the artist's ARE part of the public. Copyright laws are (intended) to protect THEIR rights...not some magical right of the people that did not create the music to have free access to someone else's work.
Don't take that wrong, I'm not discussing the validity of copyright term lengths, or extending copyrights from deceased artists into private corporate control, or any of the debatable areas of copyright law.
All I'm arguing is that copyright does NOT exist to benefit you, unless you have created something you wish to have protected via copyright. Rather, it exists to protect the artist FROM you.
This is a very important distinction, and I'm shocked that you've been modded to +5 insightful for providing completely misleading information.
Where did it mention that MS is doing anything groundbreaking or revolutionary here?
This is simply an article about how MS, arguably the most targeted entity out there, secures their business.
Further, it appears to work very well for them, without sacrificing their employees ability to work.
Really, what are you trying to say here? Should it require 3 people and 2 keys to log into your office over VPN every day to get some work done? Somehow I thing not, but that still leaves me wondering what is your point?
Except the have NO FUCKING EVIDENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE. The repeatedly pull this shit, and repeatedly get away with it.
These are frivolous lawsuits. They ONLY get away with it because they're the 500lb gorilla, and the ONLY choose to target week, sick little 10lb lambs.
I don't give a flying fuck about what lawyers think about this, whether it's allowed by the judicial system or whatnot. It's disgusting, pathetic, ignorant, immoral, evil, cruel...shall I go on?
These practices should be absolutely and utterly unacceptable, and if repeated, highly punishable by the law. The RIAA has the ability to completely destroy someones life even if they did nothing wrong...with absolutely ZERO repercussions to the RIAA.
And yet we have fucking idiots like you arguing on behalf of this shit. No wonder we're fucked.
The world absolutely would be a much better place if every member of the RIAA and every lawyer were all dumped in an unmarked grave never to be seen again. Feel free to join them.
Christ, calling this acceptable based on 'the way our system works'. IT'S FUCKING BROKEN ALREADY. FIX IT!
You have just proven exactly why the XPrize exists, and all the other grass roots space related initiatives going on. Engineers have a notoriously hard time thinking outside of their box sometimes.
You're the one that applied the arbitrary lower limit to the possible weight of this thing...I'll even go with your lower one, which was 1/3rd of the weight of Mars Rover. Mars Rover being 150kg. So you state this is impossible at anything less than 50kg...but this probe needs almost NONE of what adds up to the weight of the rover. Think Simple. Never mind backup this, redundant that, gotta make sure it'll run as long as possible...It requires an extremely small lifespan upon activation. Keep thinking simple, and small. Small enough that multiples make the system redundant in and of itself.
Damned, look at what they fit in a Cell Phone these days...wireless, camera, a million other things not required by this....50kg...come on now.
I'm sorry, but you most certainly are shitting on this idea out of hand. I'm starting to suspect that you're just a troll with absolutely zero knowledge on the subject...At least, I hope so.
Many many solids most certainly can, and do, flow. Maybe slower than their liquid counterparts, but flow they do nonetheless.
Ice most certainly and absolutely can, and does, flow. All the time.
Never mind the fact that what is or is not flowing here is entirely up for date. It could have been a 'flow' of ejected ice chunks mixed in with soil debris.
If H20 was involved, it was already frozen, or very quickly after it became so, once it reached the surface. Thus we would have ice, which would sublime.
A candle has been shown to be able to ignite dry needles on a limb a foot away.
Further, many fires are started when simply _lighting_ the candles.
There is a very good reason for the term "Up like a christmas tree". If you've never seen a christmas tree burn, I suggest you google some vids.
Candles in a christmas tree are dangerous, period. No trolling about it. It's a fact. You have kids so I feel obliged to do what I can to see that you understand this...this isn't just darwin material we're talking here...
Note that I'm not disputing the inherent beauty of a tree lit with candles. But just because it's beautiful does not make it safe, there is simply no correlation between the two whatsoever.
I've been to the Edison and Ford Winter Estates Museum in Florida.
It is like he went home from work last night, and could be returning any moment to continue his work.
I'm appalled that you have this kind of viewpoint...the number of things in that museum that most people will never even know existed, let alone see...
I will point out one single thing from the museum that sums it all up:
It is lighted with the very light bulbs that Edison himself made, well over a hundred years ago...STILL BURNING TODAY!!!
When was the last time you bought ANYTHING electrical that lasted over a hundred years? Never mind a freaking light bulb!
Yeah, cause it's the kids being around that will cause the tree to suddenly burst into flame. Lol.
Fire + Dead Coniferous Tree = Really Good Chance For A Fire
That is a fact that has been proven repeatedly. As long as you realize that you're choosing to do something extremely dangerous for the sake of nostalgia or whatever, no problem. But if you actually harbor delusions about this fact...Please put some serious thought into this.
You are purposefully taking an overly pessimistic stance. Sheesh, we'd have never landed on the moon if it was left up to thinking like this.
Are you really trying to tell us that it would be impossible to build a probe for under 50kg that could take a few pictures, sample a very limited and simple amount of inputs, and do so cheaply?
I guarantee you it can be done in under 1kg. Quite possibly a lot less than 1 kg. Don't know where you're getting your numbers from...the Rover is 175kg, most of that required for batteries, motors, wheels, suspension...things a vehicle needs to Move and Stay Alive for a long time.
This thing wouldn't need to move, or last more than a few hours at most when turned on.
By the way, indefinite != forever, as you appear to believe.
It's not that people don't like coins...people simply aren't used to them. By their nature, people resist change.
Everywhere I've encountered that has replaced lower denomination bills with coins, people have gotten very used to the idea. No one misses 1 and 2 dollar bills in Canada, that's for sure.
Trust me, the first time you dive into your pocket for coffee change and pull out enough value for a decent lunch, you'll be hooked. Or stick a single coin in the parking meter for the afternoon instead of digging for and hoping to find enough quarters to do the same. Much easier to send the kid to the store for a bag of milk without worrying about them having enough change to buy a couple chocolate bars. Perfect for kids allowances...paper money just doesn't hold up very well in kids pockets;)
It's a good thing, but unfortunately yes, for it to be accepted it has to be forced initially.
People keep saying that, but it hasn't been set up to succeed.
The US has very regularly had 1 dollar coins available. They have never decided to make that their standard form of currency though. This is the furthest they've ever gone with 1 dollar coins sure, but it's not far enough for it to become standard to use, and not even close to enough to usurp the current paper dollar.
The only way for the 1 dollar coin to really come into it's own in the US is to deprecate the paper dollar. Anything less will continue to relegate any 1 dollar coins to niches, which fosters less support for it, which fosters less acceptance by people...etc etc.
Either move to dollar coins, or continue to release curiosities and collectibles. I'd suggest that now would be the ideal time to do the former...one denomination instantly compliant.
Another place where this is true is with software. Properly designed accessible software is much easier for everyone to use. Funny story, the company I work for has some contracts with state-run agencies in the US. We recently just released an e-commerce site to one of them. We take styling cues from the agencies own existing presence and do our best to provide a service that is as close to seamless for the end user as possible...with caveats however.
Our site was designed to cover 508 compliance, something that these agencies are going to be required to include in future contracts. Their sites currently use medium-light grey text on a medium-dark grey background...I find it hard to read, never mind certain people with certain vision impairments. We used black on white as it is the only truly reasonable choice for accessible reasons, in particular when there is no additional info being conveyed by colour. The head of this particular agency refused to sign off on the site until we changed it to the way their site looked. We had to find a user that was willing to sue this agency if they didn't ensure that the service they were providing was fully accessible. Would have been kinda funny if they'd forced the issue though...they could have ended up in a position where they'd have to sue themselves for non compliance of their own service;)
But anyways, there really is no good reason not to make software accessible. Once you know what is required, it becomes standard practice to just do the right thing in the first place and there is really no overhead to compliance.
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I think you know what I mean, and I don't want to have the particular discussion that could easily ensue here.
In this context, I would mean any instrument that the artist uses to compose and record music on. Traditionally there'd be somewhere around 4 of these people that would create music.
Now, some unknown person composes a song entirely digitally, record company sticks a shiny face in front of it, records an audio track over it with them, and pawns it off on the masses.
Why does most of the crap on the radio sound the same? Well, in part because a ton of it is written by the same small group of people, though you'd never know unless you actually looked into it.
It used to be that bands would use session musicians to record certain tracks if they weren't actually up to the task themselves. Now this is applied to the entire process. It's a cookie cutter methodology.
On the other hand, I think that because of this, the indy band scene is just exploding everywhere...but the mainstream market isn't listening, and they really should be.
Did I say on under the table sales? Sheesh, holy pedantry batman.
Go talk to someone that owns a used disc shop.
No, for the most part, new music is crap. (I'm talking mainstream here)
Who's touring these days? Just about every single one of the bands your parents grew up with that have enough members still alive and able to hold a guitar...not much else.
Who's putting out albums? Well, those 'retro' bands again for one. And the contrived band-in-a-box crap. And a million and one bands that consist of a 'pretty' face, cookie cutter songs, and not a single real instrument in sight.
Yes, as always, there are exceptions to the rule. But the mainstream music industry is absolutely and without a doubt WAYYYY out in left field these days.
And double wrong.
Artists do get paid for used disc sales actually.
Hopefully some of them finally realized as well that they've for the most part just been buying the same music they already bought in a number of other formats over the years.
At some point people have to notice that huge stack of CD's in the corner, and realize that they've blown a stupid amount of money over the past couple of years 'buying' it all again.
Thus I don't understand why you don't understand ogg.
The codec is open source. It's one of the very best lossy formats out there. Just about every game going uses it. FLAC is great, but not comparable. LAME is quite good, but really just another valid option for good lossy compression.
You like LAME, some others like ogg, to each their own...but please realize you're a minority bitching about another minority...doesn't make sense.
I keep hearing this, and the other one about using your PS2 on end.
In my experience, both are FUD, but YMMV.
I've been using my PS2 as my exclusive dvd player, on end, for 4 years now. Never had a problem. Not one.
It's a trigger on the bottom of a controller.
If that's not obvious, what is?
I don't care how you use it, where you put it, whatever. Once a button, always a button.
Law is supposed to benefit the public...interesting edict there...The general public? Interested public parties? Random sampling of the public?
Now, I do get what you're suggesting, however you're ignoring a very important part of your argument...the artist's ARE part of the public. Copyright laws are (intended) to protect THEIR rights...not some magical right of the people that did not create the music to have free access to someone else's work.
Don't take that wrong, I'm not discussing the validity of copyright term lengths, or extending copyrights from deceased artists into private corporate control, or any of the debatable areas of copyright law.
All I'm arguing is that copyright does NOT exist to benefit you, unless you have created something you wish to have protected via copyright. Rather, it exists to protect the artist FROM you.
This is a very important distinction, and I'm shocked that you've been modded to +5 insightful for providing completely misleading information.
Where did it mention that MS is doing anything groundbreaking or revolutionary here?
This is simply an article about how MS, arguably the most targeted entity out there, secures their business.
Further, it appears to work very well for them, without sacrificing their employees ability to work.
Really, what are you trying to say here? Should it require 3 people and 2 keys to log into your office over VPN every day to get some work done? Somehow I thing not, but that still leaves me wondering what is your point?
Except the have NO FUCKING EVIDENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE. The repeatedly pull this shit, and repeatedly get away with it.
These are frivolous lawsuits. They ONLY get away with it because they're the 500lb gorilla, and the ONLY choose to target week, sick little 10lb lambs.
I don't give a flying fuck about what lawyers think about this, whether it's allowed by the judicial system or whatnot. It's disgusting, pathetic, ignorant, immoral, evil, cruel...shall I go on?
These practices should be absolutely and utterly unacceptable, and if repeated, highly punishable by the law. The RIAA has the ability to completely destroy someones life even if they did nothing wrong...with absolutely ZERO repercussions to the RIAA.
And yet we have fucking idiots like you arguing on behalf of this shit. No wonder we're fucked.
The world absolutely would be a much better place if every member of the RIAA and every lawyer were all dumped in an unmarked grave never to be seen again. Feel free to join them.
Christ, calling this acceptable based on 'the way our system works'. IT'S FUCKING BROKEN ALREADY. FIX IT!
You have just proven exactly why the XPrize exists, and all the other grass roots space related initiatives going on. Engineers have a notoriously hard time thinking outside of their box sometimes.
You're the one that applied the arbitrary lower limit to the possible weight of this thing...I'll even go with your lower one, which was 1/3rd of the weight of Mars Rover. Mars Rover being 150kg. So you state this is impossible at anything less than 50kg...but this probe needs almost NONE of what adds up to the weight of the rover. Think Simple. Never mind backup this, redundant that, gotta make sure it'll run as long as possible...It requires an extremely small lifespan upon activation. Keep thinking simple, and small. Small enough that multiples make the system redundant in and of itself.
Damned, look at what they fit in a Cell Phone these days...wireless, camera, a million other things not required by this....50kg...come on now.
I'm sorry, but you most certainly are shitting on this idea out of hand. I'm starting to suspect that you're just a troll with absolutely zero knowledge on the subject...At least, I hope so.
The idea is not something even remotely like Huygens or Beagle 2, but you don't seem to be able to get past that.
It's fine if you want to declare this impossible and have nothing to do with it. But must you shit on someone else's parade in the process?
Some would say it's more like trying to rat on your drug dealer after you go to prison for getting caught with a rock.
You need to go back to high school physics.
Many many solids most certainly can, and do, flow. Maybe slower than their liquid counterparts, but flow they do nonetheless.
Ice most certainly and absolutely can, and does, flow. All the time.
Never mind the fact that what is or is not flowing here is entirely up for date. It could have been a 'flow' of ejected ice chunks mixed in with soil debris.
If H20 was involved, it was already frozen, or very quickly after it became so, once it reached the surface. Thus we would have ice, which would sublime.
All I can do is respond by stating, again, that if it was left up to people like you we'd never accomplish anything at all.
A candle has been shown to be able to ignite dry needles on a limb a foot away.
Further, many fires are started when simply _lighting_ the candles.
There is a very good reason for the term "Up like a christmas tree". If you've never seen a christmas tree burn, I suggest you google some vids.
Candles in a christmas tree are dangerous, period. No trolling about it. It's a fact. You have kids so I feel obliged to do what I can to see that you understand this...this isn't just darwin material we're talking here...
Note that I'm not disputing the inherent beauty of a tree lit with candles. But just because it's beautiful does not make it safe, there is simply no correlation between the two whatsoever.
Just because YOU can't do anything with it...
Your arguments make zero sense at all. What's your point?
I've been to the Edison and Ford Winter Estates Museum in Florida.
It is like he went home from work last night, and could be returning any moment to continue his work.
I'm appalled that you have this kind of viewpoint...the number of things in that museum that most people will never even know existed, let alone see...
I will point out one single thing from the museum that sums it all up:
It is lighted with the very light bulbs that Edison himself made, well over a hundred years ago...STILL BURNING TODAY!!!
When was the last time you bought ANYTHING electrical that lasted over a hundred years? Never mind a freaking light bulb!
Yeah, cause it's the kids being around that will cause the tree to suddenly burst into flame. Lol.
Fire + Dead Coniferous Tree = Really Good Chance For A Fire
That is a fact that has been proven repeatedly. As long as you realize that you're choosing to do something extremely dangerous for the sake of nostalgia or whatever, no problem. But if you actually harbor delusions about this fact...Please put some serious thought into this.
You didn't read the article did you?
What's the temp on the surface of Mars again?
So what's running on the surface, once the water reaches that point? Riiight...ice.
Sublimation is certainly applicable.
You are purposefully taking an overly pessimistic stance. Sheesh, we'd have never landed on the moon if it was left up to thinking like this.
Are you really trying to tell us that it would be impossible to build a probe for under 50kg that could take a few pictures, sample a very limited and simple amount of inputs, and do so cheaply?
I guarantee you it can be done in under 1kg. Quite possibly a lot less than 1 kg. Don't know where you're getting your numbers from...the Rover is 175kg, most of that required for batteries, motors, wheels, suspension...things a vehicle needs to Move and Stay Alive for a long time.
This thing wouldn't need to move, or last more than a few hours at most when turned on.
By the way, indefinite != forever, as you appear to believe.
It's not that people don't like coins...people simply aren't used to them. By their nature, people resist change.
;)
Everywhere I've encountered that has replaced lower denomination bills with coins, people have gotten very used to the idea. No one misses 1 and 2 dollar bills in Canada, that's for sure.
Trust me, the first time you dive into your pocket for coffee change and pull out enough value for a decent lunch, you'll be hooked. Or stick a single coin in the parking meter for the afternoon instead of digging for and hoping to find enough quarters to do the same. Much easier to send the kid to the store for a bag of milk without worrying about them having enough change to buy a couple chocolate bars. Perfect for kids allowances...paper money just doesn't hold up very well in kids pockets
It's a good thing, but unfortunately yes, for it to be accepted it has to be forced initially.
People keep saying that, but it hasn't been set up to succeed.
The US has very regularly had 1 dollar coins available. They have never decided to make that their standard form of currency though. This is the furthest they've ever gone with 1 dollar coins sure, but it's not far enough for it to become standard to use, and not even close to enough to usurp the current paper dollar.
The only way for the 1 dollar coin to really come into it's own in the US is to deprecate the paper dollar. Anything less will continue to relegate any 1 dollar coins to niches, which fosters less support for it, which fosters less acceptance by people...etc etc.
Either move to dollar coins, or continue to release curiosities and collectibles. I'd suggest that now would be the ideal time to do the former...one denomination instantly compliant.
Absolutely.
;)
Another place where this is true is with software. Properly designed accessible software is much easier for everyone to use. Funny story, the company I work for has some contracts with state-run agencies in the US. We recently just released an e-commerce site to one of them. We take styling cues from the agencies own existing presence and do our best to provide a service that is as close to seamless for the end user as possible...with caveats however.
Our site was designed to cover 508 compliance, something that these agencies are going to be required to include in future contracts. Their sites currently use medium-light grey text on a medium-dark grey background...I find it hard to read, never mind certain people with certain vision impairments. We used black on white as it is the only truly reasonable choice for accessible reasons, in particular when there is no additional info being conveyed by colour. The head of this particular agency refused to sign off on the site until we changed it to the way their site looked. We had to find a user that was willing to sue this agency if they didn't ensure that the service they were providing was fully accessible. Would have been kinda funny if they'd forced the issue though...they could have ended up in a position where they'd have to sue themselves for non compliance of their own service
But anyways, there really is no good reason not to make software accessible. Once you know what is required, it becomes standard practice to just do the right thing in the first place and there is really no overhead to compliance.