After looking at the Punk and Rock sections of the audio lunchbox offering. Emusic has a very large number of those releases that are being offered at cheaper rates. Not to mention the site design and features are much better. I don't think the audio lunchbox people even started to look at an effcient site design. So far browsing it has been akin to pulling teeth.
Emusic also does not use DRM. Their files are "alt-preset standard" LAME encoded mp3s.
For anyone looking for independent label releases online I would stress Emusic as an excellent place to start.
Regardless of the legality of what has been reported on so far. It will only take on instance of violence to snip these types of raids in the bud.
All it will take is one of the Vendors to stand up and say "fuck off", or smack one of the raiders around. These are retired Cops that have been reported to be doing this. Retired or not, you give a Police Officer enough lip and he will react, either physically or maybe with less-than-lethal weapons. The raiders have to be taking their safety into consideration, so I'd imaging they would have some sort of less-than-lethal weapon to aid them in emergencies. Once that happens, the LADP or other local police will step in with criminal charges, and clear the matter up. The article points this out. The fine legal lines the RIAA are walking with impersonating police will not hold up when violence is involved.
It is hard to believe just how jaded the RIAA has become, for them to think that these raids will continue to work. They have been very lucky to escape charges so far, but I doubt that will continue.
The problem with the Verite chipset was that it was not only slower in 3d accelerated functions, but its 2d vesa mode was worse than most of the 2d cards on the market.
I purchased the first Creative 3d Blaster (verite based) back in the quake / duke nukem 3d days. While it was interesting and cool to play vquake, (the only popular, if not the only 3d accelerated game at the time, as GLQuake port was just nearing release) the 2d vesa support just did not measure up to the other 2d cards on the market. This left bad performance in about 99.9% of the games on the market.
Because of the crappy Vesa support, I returned the card and later purchased a Voodo / ATI MAch 64 combo for excellent GL and Glide based performance and standard 2d vesa performance. Due to ATI drivers issues, I later upgraded to a Matrox Millenium / Voodoo combo that was the best all around performer at the time.
Music Match for the following reasons. I use MP3 Music as a wholesale replacement for my entertainment center in my living room:
1. MMJ: Library is seperated from the player/playlist. Because of this I can sort by album, genre, artist, track, bitrate, year and a plethora of others while still keeping my play list clear. If I want to listen to 2 albums, I right click on the tree and add both to the player, then play only those selected. Later I can add more singles songs, or albums to the player. I don't have to create a playlist to do this, but I do have the option to save if I want. MMJ also lets me preview a track outside of the playlist/player. This lets me quickly view a track before choosing to add it to the player.
1. iTunes: everything is one big library. I have to CREATE and SAVE a new playlist, even for temporary use, and drag items to the list from the browser to play. There is no seperate player distinction. There is a browse function, but I can only play one album at a time when highlighting an album to populate the main player. (well not true, I can by browsing by all albums, then ctrl-click multiple albums at the same time to add the the player. But this has to be done at the same time, there is no option to add later to the main player). I then have to delete the SAVED list to keep the interface from being cluttered. Most often there is no use for me to keep every session of what I listen to. Itunes also does not let me preview a song outside of a list. So if I am listening to the one album I can listen to without creating and saving a NEW list, the player is hijacked with that song, unless I start over and do some fancy sorting and ctrl-clicking. Actually it does not seem possible to add 2 albums + 5 tracks to the main player with CREATING and SAVING a new list, due to the limitations of the browser not even being able to sort by song outside of the main player.
PS: It seems that iTunes is insistent on being a large mix tape interface of single songs. This coincides with the "purchase single song interface". MMJ can be either or, and is flexible when choosing to look at a library in terms of "album".
2: MMJ has the "smart list function" and is slightly better than iTunes at it. MMJ has the ability to TAG music with arbitrary data that reflects mood, tempo, and rating. You can add any textual data you wish to the TAG. You can then use the "Auto DJ" function to create smart lists based on data YOU provided, in addition to the standard id3 tag.
2: Itunes: provides 1-5 rating for smart lists and that is it.
3. MMJ: Music Match provides a method of having multiple DBs to store music. This is great when dealing with different situations of music storage. For example, I have a DB for music that I do not have physical media, a DB for songs downloaded from emusic.com, a DB for music I have media for, and a DB for music on the iPod. This makes iPod and iPod synch easier for me, as I have a separate DB and can remove items from the DB at will. The iPod will synch that data. The multiple DB works well when doing things, such as ensuring that all music for which I have media is encoded at a certain quality bitrate. To do this I simply load up the DB, sort by bitrate and identify the low bitrate offenders.
3. Itunes: So far it looks like there is only one DB for iTunes. I can synch the entire DB to the iPod, or make the laborious task of clicking a check mark on only the tracks I want out the current 7500 I have. I do not seem to have the ability to create a DB for separate instances of music. I cannot use iTunes to tell me what emusic.com downloads are encoded at 128, so I can revisit emusic.com and download the new 192VBR versions.
4: MMJ has the ability to skin the interface. This is critical to me, when using a TV at 640x480 as an output. I need the ability to change colors and font sizes to better suit my output environment. MMJ is also modular and can turn pieces of its interface off.
Fought between King Harold of Saxony, King Harald Hardrada of Norway, and Duke William "the conquerer" of Normady. The most noteable battles including the battle of Stamford Bridge and the battle of Hastings, where William defeated King Harold, leading to norman rule of England.
I think the strategy might have worked. Since being released to the Apple world, I have seen so much news and praise about iTunes and the iPod. My Apple using friends swear by both of them and tell me every day about how easy buying music is with the store.
When Apple released a windows iPod I bought one, and I love it. The day iTunes was released, I downloaded it, got rid of MusicMatch and have purchased three albums from the store.
Had the hype not been around a Apple only application, I probably would not have been so eager to check it out.
I think the parent is discussing the "import cd" function of iTunes, not iTunes Music Store files; it is called ripping and encoding of CD Audio in the windows world.
ooops. forgot the finish. So it can endode many formats. Period
from what I remember of budda, he was severly oversexed as a youth, I mean massive orgies, which in part led him to meditate under a tree until nirvana and death.
One route of an explaination would be that one theme has run through it all. Mind over matter. By melding with smith in the matrix, neo's mind has been stamped with the signature of the machines. Because he is able to sense or know the machines now, he is able to use his mind to affect the machines, just like he can use his mind to affect the matrix. The point may be that he has just now, because of smith, gotten to *know* the machines as he knows the matrix. That is why I suggested manifistation in the real world and control in my post.
The other choice, as many have written here, may be that zion is another matrix, that both neo and smith have just discovered. Smith by virtue that he is not bound by his original design, and neo by his ability to sense the machines. I posted elsewhere that I think the part where the "smith infected" human cuts himself priot trying to kill neo in zion is a subtle point. If the cutting is just smith trying out the real world then the first explanation might hold. If he did heal his wounds ( looked that way to me ) after he was noticed by neo and the group, then the second matrix idea might apply, as smith is controling the "real" world.
You missed the part where the avatar cuts himself on the hand and tries to kill neo in zion. It was a subtle hint that smith is in zion. His wounds healed, because he could control his new host and the world.
Because he has part of smith (machine code) in him. Just as Smith was able to assimilate and infect a human in the real world to try and kill neo and sabatage the resitance with the EMP.
I am assuming that he is able manifest and control the machines as his has been melded with the machines now. Which is prolly what makes him the real ONE and not just the ONE v6.0.
I am assuming that the the real anomaly is that fact that man and machine can meld via the matrix and not the.01 of the matrix code that is imperfect.
Arrgggggg. This post brings back the memories of spending a half a semester on just the introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason. Our professor was truly convinced that the synthetic a priori was superceded in greatness only by the invention of sliced bread.
I completely understand the idea of time invested in a philosophical ideas. Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity took MANY hours of my life. I still pick it up now and again and always understand something new. The same goes for most of John Searl's work and of course the classics. The older I get, the more I realize that more time needs to be spent on all these past ideas. No matter what I would have said as a pompous student, I know now that I did NOT get it. I will undoubtedly say the same 20, 30, and 50 years from now.
Does anyone remember that the valve coders were originaly the "QuakeC Command" mod developers? They went to valve to LICENSE the Quake engine and make a full game. Remembering this might bring the MOD idea in focus. If it was not due the fact that Quake allowed mods through Quake C, and the valve coding team being directly decendant from Quake modding, Half-Life (oops modified quake) would not be such a large modding platform.
It might also be safe to say that the "huge, and very overlooked occurance in the game community" was exaclty what valve wanted, if you look at the team's and the game's direct evolution.
This is because all parcels exchanged by fascist, acronym bearing government agencies and private mail receptacles are monitored closely by heavily armed militiamen.
Anything less and the terrorists will win.
Do you have any good sources that describe the measurment of rift between wealthy and poor from a historical perspective? I would be very intersted in reading them.
I just fell into UNIX... was working for a company, a techincal operations job opened ( scripting, tape monkey, installs etc etc ). I was hired, the sat me in front of a terminal and said "work". I installed linux at home. I have been an admin ever since. I even tried to become a DBA, but "every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in". I gues it boils down to.... do what you know.
Some where in an appendix of the book, it explains that the sardakar are strong warriors because they come from the planet Salusa Secundu( sp?). The planet is so hostile that something like 70% of its inhabitants die before 12-15 ( if I remember correctly). They each could easily take on 10 regular house soldiers because of their backgrounds. However by the time of shaddam IV( sp?) they had become somewhat lazy and lax because of their belief that they were the best.
Now the fremen also lived on Salusa Secundu for a few generations before migrating to Arrakis ( which is even more, if not the most hostile ) of planets. They were slaves ( or smugglers i think) on Salusa Secundu. So it takes the harshness of SS to create the sardakar, and the harshness of both SS and arakis to create the fremen. Add 80 years of horrible harkonnan ( sp? ) rule over the fremen and the slow break down of the sardakar to the mix as well.
Hope that helps to explain?
mike rondello
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for simply clicking a link. HAHAHA LOL I made you click!!!!!
Pretty weak attempt this year.
When I bought my 10d last april, the 1d was sbout 6999 ( at 4 MP ) and the 1ds was over 10k.
5k for an 8 MP camera is a damn good price.
1500 for the 10d (6 MP ) body was all I could possibly afford. Even at 8k the 1ds is still a dream for me.
6k - 10k for the canon 1d or 1ds.
To add to the emusic idea.
After looking at the Punk and Rock sections of the audio lunchbox offering. Emusic has a very large number of those releases that are being offered at cheaper rates. Not to mention the site design and features are much better. I don't think the audio lunchbox people even started to look at an effcient site design. So far browsing it has been akin to pulling teeth.
Emusic also does not use DRM. Their files are "alt-preset standard" LAME encoded mp3s.
For anyone looking for independent label releases online I would stress Emusic as an excellent place to start.
Regardless of the legality of what has been reported on so far. It will only take on instance of violence to snip these types of raids in the bud.
All it will take is one of the Vendors to stand up and say "fuck off", or smack one of the raiders around. These are retired Cops that have been reported to be doing this. Retired or not, you give a Police Officer enough lip and he will react, either physically or maybe with less-than-lethal weapons. The raiders have to be taking their safety into consideration, so I'd imaging they would have some sort of less-than-lethal weapon to aid them in emergencies. Once that happens, the LADP or other local police will step in with criminal charges, and clear the matter up. The article points this out. The fine legal lines the RIAA are walking with impersonating police will not hold up when violence is involved.
It is hard to believe just how jaded the RIAA has become, for them to think that these raids will continue to work. They have been very lucky to escape charges so far, but I doubt that will continue.
Thank you very much for saying that. It keeps me from having to say it myself.
how the fuck is spoonman an "old" soundgarden song.
That is more what real soundgarden fans would consider their "new and sold out stuff"
The problem with the Verite chipset was that it was not only slower in 3d accelerated functions, but its 2d vesa mode was worse than most of the 2d cards on the market.
I purchased the first Creative 3d Blaster (verite based) back in the quake / duke nukem 3d days. While it was interesting and cool to play vquake, (the only popular, if not the only 3d accelerated game at the time, as GLQuake port was just nearing release) the 2d vesa support just did not measure up to the other 2d cards on the market. This left bad performance in about 99.9% of the games on the market.
Because of the crappy Vesa support, I returned the card and later purchased a Voodo / ATI MAch 64 combo for excellent GL and Glide based performance and standard 2d vesa performance. Due to ATI drivers issues, I later upgraded to a Matrox Millenium / Voodoo combo that was the best all around performer at the time.
Music Match for the following reasons. I use MP3 Music as a wholesale replacement for my entertainment center in my living room:
1. MMJ: Library is seperated from the player/playlist. Because of this I can sort by album, genre, artist, track, bitrate, year and a plethora of others while still keeping my play list clear. If I want to listen to 2 albums, I right click on the tree and add both to the player, then play only those selected. Later I can add more singles songs, or albums to the player. I don't have to create a playlist to do this, but I do have the option to save if I want. MMJ also lets me preview a track outside of the playlist/player. This lets me quickly view a track before choosing to add it to the player.
1. iTunes: everything is one big library. I have to CREATE and SAVE a new playlist, even for temporary use, and drag items to the list from the browser to play. There is no seperate player distinction. There is a browse function, but I can only play one album at a time when highlighting an album to populate the main player. (well not true, I can by browsing by all albums, then ctrl-click multiple albums at the same time to add the the player. But this has to be done at the same time, there is no option to add later to the main player). I then have to delete the SAVED list to keep the interface from being cluttered. Most often there is no use for me to keep every session of what I listen to. Itunes also does not let me preview a song outside of a list. So if I am listening to the one album I can listen to without creating and saving a NEW list, the player is hijacked with that song, unless I start over and do some fancy sorting and ctrl-clicking. Actually it does not seem possible to add 2 albums + 5 tracks to the main player with CREATING and SAVING a new list, due to the limitations of the browser not even being able to sort by song outside of the main player.
PS: It seems that iTunes is insistent on being a large mix tape interface of single songs. This coincides with the "purchase single song interface". MMJ can be either or, and is flexible when choosing to look at a library in terms of "album".
2: MMJ has the "smart list function" and is slightly better than iTunes at it. MMJ has the ability to TAG music with arbitrary data that reflects mood, tempo, and rating. You can add any textual data you wish to the TAG. You can then use the "Auto DJ" function to create smart lists based on data YOU provided, in addition to the standard id3 tag.
2: Itunes: provides 1-5 rating for smart lists and that is it.
3. MMJ: Music Match provides a method of having multiple DBs to store music. This is great when dealing with different situations of music storage. For example, I have a DB for music that I do not have physical media, a DB for songs downloaded from emusic.com, a DB for music I have media for, and a DB for music on the iPod. This makes iPod and iPod synch easier for me, as I have a separate DB and can remove items from the DB at will. The iPod will synch that data. The multiple DB works well when doing things, such as ensuring that all music for which I have media is encoded at a certain quality bitrate. To do this I simply load up the DB, sort by bitrate and identify the low bitrate offenders.
3. Itunes: So far it looks like there is only one DB for iTunes. I can synch the entire DB to the iPod, or make the laborious task of clicking a check mark on only the tracks I want out the current 7500 I have. I do not seem to have the ability to create a DB for separate instances of music. I cannot use iTunes to tell me what emusic.com downloads are encoded at 128, so I can revisit emusic.com and download the new 192VBR versions.
4: MMJ has the ability to skin the interface. This is critical to me, when using a TV at 640x480 as an output. I need the ability to change colors and font sizes to better suit my output environment. MMJ is also modular and can turn pieces of its interface off.
4: iTunes does not have to ab
How about the Battle for Saxon England in 1066?
Fought between King Harold of Saxony, King Harald Hardrada of Norway, and Duke William "the conquerer" of Normady. The most noteable battles including the battle of Stamford Bridge and the battle of Hastings, where William defeated King Harold, leading to norman rule of England.
See I remember basic history.
I think the strategy might have worked. Since being released to the Apple world, I have seen so much news and praise about iTunes and the iPod. My Apple using friends swear by both of them and tell me every day about how easy buying music is with the store.
When Apple released a windows iPod I bought one, and I love it. The day iTunes was released, I downloaded it, got rid of MusicMatch and have purchased three albums from the store.
Had the hype not been around a Apple only application, I probably would not have been so eager to check it out.
Actually the author of the parent (Dark Paladin) has recently posted that he was discussing CD ripping and not iTunes Music Store.
*chomp*
I think the parent is discussing the "import cd" function of iTunes, not iTunes Music Store files; it is called ripping and encoding of CD Audio in the windows world.
ooops. forgot the finish. So it can endode many formats. Period
from what I remember of budda, he was severly oversexed as a youth, I mean massive orgies, which in part led him to meditate under a tree until nirvana and death.
One route of an explaination would be that one theme has run through it all. Mind over matter. By melding with smith in the matrix, neo's mind has been stamped with the signature of the machines. Because he is able to sense or know the machines now, he is able to use his mind to affect the machines, just like he can use his mind to affect the matrix. The point may be that he has just now, because of smith, gotten to *know* the machines as he knows the matrix. That is why I suggested manifistation in the real world and control in my post.
The other choice, as many have written here, may be that zion is another matrix, that both neo and smith have just discovered. Smith by virtue that he is not bound by his original design, and neo by his ability to sense the machines. I posted elsewhere that I think the part where the "smith infected" human cuts himself priot trying to kill neo in zion is a subtle point. If the cutting is just smith trying out the real world then the first explanation might hold. If he did heal his wounds ( looked that way to me ) after he was noticed by neo and the group, then the second matrix idea might apply, as smith is controling the "real" world.
You missed the part where the avatar cuts himself on the hand and tries to kill neo in zion. It was a subtle hint that smith is in zion. His wounds healed, because he could control his new host and the world.
Because he has part of smith (machine code) in him. Just as Smith was able to assimilate and infect a human in the real world to try and kill neo and sabatage the resitance with the EMP.
.01 of the matrix code that is imperfect.
I am assuming that he is able manifest and control the machines as his has been melded with the machines now. Which is prolly what makes him the real ONE and not just the ONE v6.0.
I am assuming that the the real anomaly is that fact that man and machine can meld via the matrix and not the
Arrgggggg. This post brings back the memories of spending a half a semester on just the introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason. Our professor was truly convinced that the synthetic a priori was superceded in greatness only by the invention of sliced bread.
I completely understand the idea of time invested in a philosophical ideas. Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity took MANY hours of my life. I still pick it up now and again and always understand something new. The same goes for most of John Searl's work and of course the classics. The older I get, the more I realize that more time needs to be spent on all these past ideas. No matter what I would have said as a pompous student, I know now that I did NOT get it. I will undoubtedly say the same 20, 30, and 50 years from now.
someone please MOD this up.
Halflife is not larger than it intened to be.
Does anyone remember that the valve coders were originaly the "QuakeC Command" mod developers? They went to valve to LICENSE the Quake engine and make a full game. Remembering this might bring the MOD idea in focus. If it was not due the fact that Quake allowed mods through Quake C, and the valve coding team being directly decendant from Quake modding, Half-Life (oops modified quake) would not be such a large modding platform.
It might also be safe to say that the "huge, and very overlooked occurance in the game community" was exaclty what valve wanted, if you look at the team's and the game's direct evolution.
You forgot:
* True patriots do not get their mail Hax0red
This is because all parcels exchanged by fascist, acronym bearing government agencies and private mail receptacles are monitored closely by heavily armed militiamen. Anything less and the terrorists will win.
Do you have any good sources that describe the measurment of rift between wealthy and poor from a historical perspective? I would be very intersted in reading them.
I just fell into UNIX ... was working for a company, a techincal operations job opened ( scripting, tape monkey, installs etc etc ). I was hired, the sat me in front of a terminal and said "work". I installed linux at home. I have been an admin ever since. I even tried to become a DBA, but "every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in". I gues it boils down to .... do what you know.
Some where in an appendix of the book, it explains that the sardakar are strong warriors because they come from the planet Salusa Secundu( sp?). The planet is so hostile that something like 70% of its inhabitants die before 12-15 ( if I remember correctly). They each could easily take on 10 regular house soldiers because of their backgrounds. However by the time of shaddam IV( sp?) they had become somewhat lazy and lax because of their belief that they were the best. Now the fremen also lived on Salusa Secundu for a few generations before migrating to Arrakis ( which is even more, if not the most hostile ) of planets. They were slaves ( or smugglers i think) on Salusa Secundu. So it takes the harshness of SS to create the sardakar, and the harshness of both SS and arakis to create the fremen. Add 80 years of horrible harkonnan ( sp? ) rule over the fremen and the slow break down of the sardakar to the mix as well. Hope that helps to explain? mike rondello