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they'll need to contain an integrated power supply
The power supplies are external and sold separately for $800 MSRP and can power 2 of the linked speakers or 4 of the lower end speakers here.
The XLR point is very valid. I don't understand why all of this "audiophile" high dollar equipment uses the lowest common denominator cabling is beyond me. The best analog speaker inputs are those "5 way binding posts" and the best analog intercomponent interconnect are those cheesy RCA cables. Real audiophiles (professionals) use things like speakon connections, balanced/unbalanced XLR cables, and the likes which are so much more reliable, easier to connect and disconnect, and don't cost that terribly much.
Want the best audio quality, distance, noise-resistance for your speakers? fiber optic digital audio paths. end of story.
So long as you like jitter. Actually, XLRs are being used for digital cables in the professional world as well.
What if I like both eighties hair metal and symphonic orchestra?
Aside from the hair metal, thats fine. Just kidding.
But seriously, I like different styles of music as well, but I don't regularly make a playlist/mix CD that completely crosses all of my music taste. Instead, they are a little more tightly coupled. Maybe that is why this service offers each individual more than one "channel" of music to listen to.
Radio NEVER has had to pay RIAA. Radio broadcasts were deemed "public performance" and had to pay their licenses to BMI/ASCAP/SESAC (the performance royalty companies). In fact, all these royalties RIAA has demanded from satellite radio, web radio, etc. Are completely new previously unheard of royalties. And it's all based on "caching".
Your right. RIAA has never been involved with broadcast licenses. Pretty soon we might have things like cable and satellite TV service where people get a monthly bill and pay for the content that they receive. There will however never be a time in our lives where we can listen to music at restaurants, bars, shopping malls, in cars, and our homes. Its not a lucrative business anymore because there is simply no demand for such a service.
Why doesn't the RIAA just buy a big vault, put all of their CDs in it, lock to door, and stand on top of it and scream: "I've done locked up my toys, and nobody, including me will play with them!"
Judging by their behavior, I'm guessing that the RIAA is about done with. I'm guessing that music may go to more of a service business model vs a sales model, just like TV vs video recordings. Most video content by most people is viewed via a service such as cable or satellite. I pay something like $80 a month for my HD-DVR and my cable service. I pay about $0 a month for music recordings besides my ISP service bill (which is also my cable company, and yes the music I get is legally tradable). So, my cable provider is getting about $120 a month to provide me with internet, audio and video content. The RIAA affiliated companies gets $0.
The RIAA affiliated companies are done providing content distribution because they suck at it. They do not provide a greatly desired product like MP3s despite the customer demand that is almost 10 years old now. Most "CD quality" audio recordings are only at most 16bit/44.1 kHz, which too is almost 10 years old. Very few _amateur_ audio recordings are that low of a quality any more. For example, I record everything at 24bit and 96 kHz, and many people do that as well too.
I don't know how the moneys go as far as the RIAA vs ASCAP/BMI or whatever broadcast licenses are available. In fact, from what I understand you can pay something like $200 a year for a broadcast license and legally play almost anything you can get your hands on, again with $0 going to the RIAA.
I just don't get it how TV can stay alive, like the big 3, CBS, NBC, and ABC, which freely broadcast their content to the entire country for free _themselves_ with their own towers, and people _still pay_ for cable and satellite service. Remember, one of the biggest issues with satellite is that their customers _demand_ the free broadcast channels as well as the satellite programming.
In summary, the RIAA is done. They will lawyer their way until they die, but they are like a person trapped in the middle of the ocean that is drinking salt water "to stay alive". There inevitable death will only be sooner rather than later. RIP.
...there is no clear legal answer for US citizens as to whether downloading from AllOfMP3 is legal. It could be argued, for example, that the purchase takes place in Russia, and therefore...
AFAIK, everything is legal until a law says otherwise.
It's a nice thought, but it's not possible to look at software development as a physical manufacturing process. We're much closer to art.
I used to think that programmers were "artists", until I was speaking to a boss of mine (who programs), and he said that programming was more similar to a craft than an art.
After hearing that, I believe him 100%. I see programming as a highly skilled labor position very similar to woodworking. There are an abundance of tools available to the craftsman and the skill is using the appropriate tools to put everything together until the final desired project is completed.
Languages like Lisp, Haskell, Scheme and ML allow you to avoid buffer and heap overflows (assuming the language implementation is correct).
It is therefore, in my opinion, less optimal (from a security perspective) to use something like "C" for a complicated app like sendmail, web server or secure shell daemon (sshd) than it is to use a language like "C".
The problem is for one reason (or randomness) or another, no mainstream daemons or operating systems or client applications are written in Lisp, Haskell, Scheme, or ML. Plenty are written in C, C++, and Objective C, and I have yet to of heard of a rewrite into another language in order to alleviate the security risks because of the current language.
I cannot explain why the other languages are not used. I have not used any of them personally, but somebody should be able to shed light on the subject.
Blaming TV and movies isn't going to get you votes.
Yes, but lying might. Fiction from the TFA:...video games and all computerized representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths??"
I know it would be contrary to their agreements with Apple Records, but if the music execs do go ahead with this, I think Apple should start selling music directly from the musicians rather than going through the labels.
Yes, its a PITA that Apple records and Apple computer have this legal dispute. Maybe its in Apple computer's best interest to sell the iTunes portion of their business and then have them directly sell music from the artists.
Oh, remind me again why we need the record industry?
In all honesty, it may actually improve creativity and quantity of music. Can't come up with enough material for an album. No problem, just sell what you have to iTunes. Its still something.
FOSS programs generally don't have to connect to a 'license server' or have a paid-for 'license key' entered in a magic config file or dialog box. There is also not normally a hologram or fancy piece of paper that must be presented upon request.
That is one of the hidden benefits of _free_ software. That other software requires me to do things like have hardware dongles on my machine, license servers, typing in license keys, doing an online challenge and response. I hate it. I feel like a criminal for buying the software. Its easier to "do the right thing" and buy the software and then download a hacked pirated copy that is less demanding of me as a user of the software.
Whenever US mainstream media writes about piracy they use the word "illegal" over and over again. For example, the link in TFS, SFGate writes "illegal release".
I guess that we are subconsciously brainwashed into thinking that bad == illegal == go to prison or jail.
Keep in mind that that we are the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. As a comparison, we currently have 0.7% of our population imprisoned and Sweden is an order of magnitude below this. Not to mention that about 2% of our population is "in the system" to include parole, probation, or whatever (to include yours truly).
That is why. Its simply the cost of "freedom". Or so I've been told by the same media people.
Wow, it couldn't be that people were sick and tired of the complete and utter crap that was Episodes One and Two, that they never bothered with Episode Three?
People, the _only_ part is sarcasm. I know its difficult sometimes to pick it up in written form, but to make it more clear, this movie was the number 7 box office draw for all movies without compensating for inflation over all the years of movie history.
So this means that the movie was successful in terms of box office sales regardless of the quality of the movie or the previous 2 or even the original 3.
This is kinda like the South Park where the "poor music people" live in huge lavish houses, etc, yet hardly work, and bitch about how people are "stealing from them" (and have the nerve to charge $75+ for concert tickets).
He wrote and distributed a rootkit for windows; for educational purposes only (!). It becomes one of the most widely used tools to propagate spyware and trojans. Does he bear any moral responsibilty for this?
Its open source and freely available.
You can't knock that here.
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I'd say nearly 30% of my consulting income for 5 years was helping basic company managers getting their Palms to work.
Google seems to realize that information is the most valuable commodity now and in the future.
Yup. Soon we will be entering the "Information Age" or according to some sociologists we already have.
Its kinda scary that we are going from stone->metal->whatever->industrial->information. Because, AFAIK, information is the only thing that is not tangible. Its also witnessed by people being employed more and more into "services" vs manufacturing or something else. This is also witnessed by IBM's new "service" oriented model that they keep talking about.
Rather than trying to shield an entire house, just build yourself a set of Orgone accumulators for every member of the family and spend as much time in them as possible.
The thin metal walls are sure to do as good a job attenuating 60 Hz EMF as they do re-radiating orgone energy....
My god!
What ever happened to tin-foil hats?
They have worked wonders for many self-respecting geeks for a long time!
if you are running 3 servers (surely a minimum for the slashdot crowd), then 2 external supplies (main/redundant) should be all you need with a lightweight re-route internally to get the power onto the rails.
I've thought about this, and it has been discussed on the beowulf mailinglist. And, in fact, APC has products that do this, but the number of computers that have direct DC inputs are few and far between. Usually, they are "telco" grade computers.
Anywho, I think it would be awesome to have one hot swappable and redundant power supply _and_ a UPS that takes 5U or so in each rack. It seems as though it would be so much more efficient, especially when involving a UPS. Think about it you have AC voltage coming into your UPS which goes from AC->DC which goes to the batteries, and then the DC->AC again to go to the computer, and then the PSU in the computer does AC->DC again to distribute it to the internals of the computer. Now multiply it by each server you have.
Any EE types out there that have any justifications for each and every gizmo that you plug into the wall having its own power supply? I would really like to get rid of all of those external AC->DC adaptors that come with smaller electronics. Those get to be a pain real quick, especially when they are fighting for real estate on a power strip.
They have sold 21 million of these. Lets say Apple is totally out of control and went nuts and spent one hundred million on design. so it's like five bucks each on enginerring.
Thats upfront money that is going into a product that has no certainty of selling (AKA, risk).
Another programme, called the Global Intellectual Property Rights Academy, would train foreign judges, enforcement officials and other stakeholders in international intellectual property "obligations" and best practices. The academy, overseen by the US Patent and Trademark Office, plans to convene in 24 sessions in 2006, paying all travel expenses for the foreign participants, who will come from many of the same areas where experts will be working.
I don't know what to even say to that.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has their own special issues. We are going to "train" people about their laws concerning intellectual property "obligations" and "best practices"?
Put me in charge of this damn thing. I'll use napalm to train these guys.
I'm speechless. I don't think I really want to live in this country (USA) any more.
The above link is the direct download of said software. I guess its for some kind of computer besides a Mac, Linux, or Solaris. It does not run on those. Oh well.
You might want to reconsider that comment, because plastic and mylar are quite inexpensive these days. If that's really what you're after, and in that particular form factor (for whatever reason), you can go to the nearest landfill and get all you want for free.
Paint and canvas aren't terribly expensive either, but its common for Picasso, DaVinci, or Monet paintings to sell for millions of dollars. Its also not unheard of to get something from a landfill and sell it for a decent amount of money.
Plug your nose, avoid the seagull droppings, and have fun!
Given that when I pay for a CD, I'm paying for the music, not the plastic and mylar
If that were the case than you would have the right to download an MP3 or another type of encoding of the music for a lifetime once you bought a CD. Even after your CD is lost, stolen, scratched to hell, or sold or even given to someone else.
I don't buy CDs, but I check for the DVD logo and for the SACD logo when I'm looking for a DVD or an SACD. Sometimes on a DVD I look for the different audio encodings on it like 24bit PCM, DTS, or Dolby Digital vs Dolby ProLogic or mono or stereo. I check to see if the software will work on my computer before buying it. I check to make sure the gas will work in my car before buying it (diesel simply will not work in my car).
Also, the DVDs and the SACDs are in a different section of the store, but I'm assuming that CDs and "CD-like" DRMed discs are in the same section of the store. I could be wrong.
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they'll need to contain an integrated power supply
The power supplies are external and sold separately for $800 MSRP and can power 2 of the linked speakers or 4 of the lower end speakers here.
The XLR point is very valid. I don't understand why all of this "audiophile" high dollar equipment uses the lowest common denominator cabling is beyond me. The best analog speaker inputs are those "5 way binding posts" and the best analog intercomponent interconnect are those cheesy RCA cables. Real audiophiles (professionals) use things like speakon connections, balanced/unbalanced XLR cables, and the likes which are so much more reliable, easier to connect and disconnect, and don't cost that terribly much.
Want the best audio quality, distance, noise-resistance for your speakers? fiber optic digital audio paths. end of story.
So long as you like jitter. Actually, XLRs are being used for digital cables in the professional world as well.
What if I like both eighties hair metal and symphonic orchestra?
Aside from the hair metal, thats fine. Just kidding.
But seriously, I like different styles of music as well, but I don't regularly make a playlist/mix CD that completely crosses all of my music taste. Instead, they are a little more tightly coupled. Maybe that is why this service offers each individual more than one "channel" of music to listen to.
Radio NEVER has had to pay RIAA. Radio broadcasts were deemed "public performance" and had to pay their licenses to BMI/ASCAP/SESAC (the performance royalty companies). In fact, all these royalties RIAA has demanded from satellite radio, web radio, etc. Are completely new previously unheard of royalties. And it's all based on "caching".
Your right. RIAA has never been involved with broadcast licenses. Pretty soon we might have things like cable and satellite TV service where people get a monthly bill and pay for the content that they receive. There will however never be a time in our lives where we can listen to music at restaurants, bars, shopping malls, in cars, and our homes. Its not a lucrative business anymore because there is simply no demand for such a service.
Why doesn't the RIAA just buy a big vault, put all of their CDs in it, lock to door, and stand on top of it and scream: "I've done locked up my toys, and nobody, including me will play with them!"
Judging by their behavior, I'm guessing that the RIAA is about done with. I'm guessing that music may go to more of a service business model vs a sales model, just like TV vs video recordings. Most video content by most people is viewed via a service such as cable or satellite. I pay something like $80 a month for my HD-DVR and my cable service. I pay about $0 a month for music recordings besides my ISP service bill (which is also my cable company, and yes the music I get is legally tradable). So, my cable provider is getting about $120 a month to provide me with internet, audio and video content. The RIAA affiliated companies gets $0.
The RIAA affiliated companies are done providing content distribution because they suck at it. They do not provide a greatly desired product like MP3s despite the customer demand that is almost 10 years old now. Most "CD quality" audio recordings are only at most 16bit/44.1 kHz, which too is almost 10 years old. Very few _amateur_ audio recordings are that low of a quality any more. For example, I record everything at 24bit and 96 kHz, and many people do that as well too.
I don't know how the moneys go as far as the RIAA vs ASCAP/BMI or whatever broadcast licenses are available. In fact, from what I understand you can pay something like $200 a year for a broadcast license and legally play almost anything you can get your hands on, again with $0 going to the RIAA.
I just don't get it how TV can stay alive, like the big 3, CBS, NBC, and ABC, which freely broadcast their content to the entire country for free _themselves_ with their own towers, and people _still pay_ for cable and satellite service. Remember, one of the biggest issues with satellite is that their customers _demand_ the free broadcast channels as well as the satellite programming.
In summary, the RIAA is done. They will lawyer their way until they die, but they are like a person trapped in the middle of the ocean that is drinking salt water "to stay alive". There inevitable death will only be sooner rather than later. RIP.
is supposedly a professional journalist
Shhhh! We don't talk about those things here!
...there is no clear legal answer for US citizens as to whether downloading from AllOfMP3 is legal. It could be argued, for example, that the purchase takes place in Russia, and therefore...
AFAIK, everything is legal until a law says otherwise.
It's a nice thought, but it's not possible to look at software development as a physical manufacturing process. We're much closer to art.
I used to think that programmers were "artists", until I was speaking to a boss of mine (who programs), and he said that programming was more similar to a craft than an art.
After hearing that, I believe him 100%. I see programming as a highly skilled labor position very similar to woodworking. There are an abundance of tools available to the craftsman and the skill is using the appropriate tools to put everything together until the final desired project is completed.
Languages like Lisp, Haskell, Scheme and ML allow you to avoid buffer and heap overflows (assuming the language implementation is correct).
It is therefore, in my opinion, less optimal (from a security perspective) to use something like "C" for a complicated app like sendmail, web server or secure shell daemon (sshd) than it is to use a language like "C".
The problem is for one reason (or randomness) or another, no mainstream daemons or operating systems or client applications are written in Lisp, Haskell, Scheme, or ML. Plenty are written in C, C++, and Objective C, and I have yet to of heard of a rewrite into another language in order to alleviate the security risks because of the current language.
I cannot explain why the other languages are not used. I have not used any of them personally, but somebody should be able to shed light on the subject.
Blaming TV and movies isn't going to get you votes.
...video games and all computerized representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths??"
Yes, but lying might. Fiction from the TFA:
Fact based on hard data:
Violent crime in the US stays at a historic low.
I know it would be contrary to their agreements with Apple Records, but if the music execs do go ahead with this, I think Apple should start selling music directly from the musicians rather than going through the labels.
Yes, its a PITA that Apple records and Apple computer have this legal dispute. Maybe its in Apple computer's best interest to sell the iTunes portion of their business and then have them directly sell music from the artists.
Oh, remind me again why we need the record industry?
In all honesty, it may actually improve creativity and quantity of music. Can't come up with enough material for an album. No problem, just sell what you have to iTunes. Its still something.
FOSS programs generally don't have to connect to a 'license server' or have a paid-for 'license key' entered in a magic config file or dialog box. There is also not normally a hologram or fancy piece of paper that must be presented upon request.
That is one of the hidden benefits of _free_ software. That other software requires me to do things like have hardware dongles on my machine, license servers, typing in license keys, doing an online challenge and response. I hate it. I feel like a criminal for buying the software. Its easier to "do the right thing" and buy the software and then download a hacked pirated copy that is less demanding of me as a user of the software.
Whenever US mainstream media writes about piracy they use the word "illegal" over and over again. For example, the link in TFS, SFGate writes "illegal release".
I guess that we are subconsciously brainwashed into thinking that bad == illegal == go to prison or jail.
Keep in mind that that we are the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. As a comparison, we currently have 0.7% of our population imprisoned and Sweden is an order of magnitude below this. Not to mention that about 2% of our population is "in the system" to include parole, probation, or whatever (to include yours truly).
That is why. Its simply the cost of "freedom". Or so I've been told by the same media people.
Wow, it couldn't be that people were sick and tired of the complete and utter crap that was Episodes One and Two, that they never bothered with Episode Three?
People, the _only_ part is sarcasm. I know its difficult sometimes to pick it up in written form, but to make it more clear, this movie was the number 7 box office draw for all movies without compensating for inflation over all the years of movie history.
So this means that the movie was successful in terms of box office sales regardless of the quality of the movie or the previous 2 or even the original 3.
This is kinda like the South Park where the "poor music people" live in huge lavish houses, etc, yet hardly work, and bitch about how people are "stealing from them" (and have the nerve to charge $75+ for concert tickets).
He wrote and distributed a rootkit for windows; for educational purposes only (!). It becomes one of the most widely used tools to propagate spyware and trojans. Does he bear any moral responsibilty for this?
Its open source and freely available.
You can't knock that here.
I'd say nearly 30% of my consulting income for 5 years was helping basic company managers getting their Palms to work.
Wow.
Google seems to realize that information is the most valuable commodity now and in the future.
Yup. Soon we will be entering the "Information Age" or according to some sociologists we already have.
Its kinda scary that we are going from stone->metal->whatever->industrial->information. Because, AFAIK, information is the only thing that is not tangible. Its also witnessed by people being employed more and more into "services" vs manufacturing or something else. This is also witnessed by IBM's new "service" oriented model that they keep talking about.
Gotta wonder what's next?
Maybe not our typical theatres, but yenno... like the one's at theme parks or something.
Yeah, I thought they were cool over 20 years ago when I first saw them at EPCOT at Disney World. Some info about the technology can be found here.
Rather than trying to shield an entire house, just build yourself a set of Orgone accumulators for every member of the family and spend as much time in them as possible.
...
The thin metal walls are sure to do as good a job attenuating 60 Hz EMF as they do re-radiating orgone energy.
My god!
What ever happened to tin-foil hats?
They have worked wonders for many self-respecting geeks for a long time!
if you are running 3 servers (surely a minimum for the slashdot crowd), then 2 external supplies (main/redundant) should be all you need with a lightweight re-route internally to get the power onto the rails.
I've thought about this, and it has been discussed on the beowulf mailinglist. And, in fact, APC has products that do this, but the number of computers that have direct DC inputs are few and far between. Usually, they are "telco" grade computers.
Anywho, I think it would be awesome to have one hot swappable and redundant power supply _and_ a UPS that takes 5U or so in each rack. It seems as though it would be so much more efficient, especially when involving a UPS. Think about it you have AC voltage coming into your UPS which goes from AC->DC which goes to the batteries, and then the DC->AC again to go to the computer, and then the PSU in the computer does AC->DC again to distribute it to the internals of the computer. Now multiply it by each server you have.
Any EE types out there that have any justifications for each and every gizmo that you plug into the wall having its own power supply? I would really like to get rid of all of those external AC->DC adaptors that come with smaller electronics. Those get to be a pain real quick, especially when they are fighting for real estate on a power strip.
They have sold 21 million of these. Lets say Apple is totally out of control and went nuts and spent one hundred million on design. so it's like five bucks each on enginerring.
Thats upfront money that is going into a product that has no certainty of selling (AKA, risk).
From TFA:
Another programme, called the Global Intellectual Property Rights Academy, would train foreign judges, enforcement officials and other stakeholders in international intellectual property "obligations" and best practices. The academy, overseen by the US Patent and Trademark Office, plans to convene in 24 sessions in 2006, paying all travel expenses for the foreign participants, who will come from many of the same areas where experts will be working.
I don't know what to even say to that.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has their own special issues. We are going to "train" people about their laws concerning intellectual property "obligations" and "best practices"?
Put me in charge of this damn thing. I'll use napalm to train these guys.
I'm speechless. I don't think I really want to live in this country (USA) any more.
Hmm???
http://www.ifpi.org/dfc/downloads/setup.msi
The above link is the direct download of said software. I guess its for some kind of computer besides a Mac, Linux, or Solaris. It does not run on those. Oh well.
You might want to reconsider that comment, because plastic and mylar are quite inexpensive these days. If that's really what you're after, and in that particular form factor (for whatever reason), you can go to the nearest landfill and get all you want for free.
Paint and canvas aren't terribly expensive either, but its common for Picasso, DaVinci, or Monet paintings to sell for millions of dollars. Its also not unheard of to get something from a landfill and sell it for a decent amount of money.
Plug your nose, avoid the seagull droppings, and have fun!
Let's change DRM (Digital Rights Management) to DUM (Digitally Unusable Music), then we can call them "DUM CDs".
Let's continue and call them DUMB CDs. Digitally Unusable Music Biatch.
That more completely fills the acronym void into a real word, and keeps up with the times.
Given that when I pay for a CD, I'm paying for the music, not the plastic and mylar
If that were the case than you would have the right to download an MP3 or another type of encoding of the music for a lifetime once you bought a CD. Even after your CD is lost, stolen, scratched to hell, or sold or even given to someone else.
I think you bought the plastic and mylar.
I mean, when did you last check for the CD logo?
I don't buy CDs, but I check for the DVD logo and for the SACD logo when I'm looking for a DVD or an SACD. Sometimes on a DVD I look for the different audio encodings on it like 24bit PCM, DTS, or Dolby Digital vs Dolby ProLogic or mono or stereo. I check to see if the software will work on my computer before buying it. I check to make sure the gas will work in my car before buying it (diesel simply will not work in my car).
Also, the DVDs and the SACDs are in a different section of the store, but I'm assuming that CDs and "CD-like" DRMed discs are in the same section of the store. I could be wrong.