how do they fit 140 MB of data onto this card? I believe those cards are itself trimmed from 8cm media cards, which hold 140 mb of data or 21 minutes. With the top and bottom trimmed, isn't the largest available data on the CD bounded by the shortest diameter? (in other words, much less than 140mb?)
When I clicked on this article, it was my intention to write a mocking parody of an anti-patent nutcase who thinks people should release their patents into the public domain after they poured millions of dollar into the research.
I think you may have deliberately misunderstood me when I used BackStreet Boys. I hate the BackStreets, I used them to show even though there are crap like BackStreets, there exists a log of _other_ original music in america.
No, I didn't deliberately misundertand you. Using anything other than BackStreet Boys wouldn't be a fair apples to apples comparison, since there's a high degree of similarity across the board for pop music in ANY country.
Maybe I shouldn't have put Faye on "the list", but I just can't accept the fact that an "artist" in her own words copies music from groups like the Cranberries (though its done legally)
Again, I don't know why you're bringing up a situation that ceased to exist 6 whole years ago, but it was very common thing to license music back then, simply because there was a lack of talent of that sort in Hong Kong back then (please be reminded that Hong Kong has a total population of 6 million people - they don't have a niche for everything back then). Of course, like I said this point is nil, since almost no artists do that now.
Well, they don't "license" it anymore, but copy 75% of the song to claim to be Artists instead of singers. Take a look at the recent press in Ming Pao Entertainment when they ripped music from Singapore. I think it has become better tho, because this time the press actually exposed them.
You're right, but you missed the point. The very act of newspapers exposing them shows that the public doesn't condones such action, and we find it very intolerable as well. In fact, another artist was recently accused of copying (almost note for note) a Thai song of 2 years ago. He was placed in under public scrutiny, ranging from enraged music fans, to music directors, and awards were even considered to be evoked.
Your example not only proves my point that Hong Kong doesn't show a "it's ok" attitude towards copycat artists. Please don't insult the Hong Kong entertainment industry anymore. Thanks.
Take a look at (but don't listen to;-) Leon, Kelly, Andy(s), Sammi, Nichalas, Wong Fei, to name a few... They are all very popular celebrities, and yet they don't possess any real talent.
By what measure do you assess "talent"? Faye Wong possess a very beautiful voice (which is already a "real talent" for ANYONE that listens to music).
(Beyond, on the other hand, _is_ Hong Kong culture!:-)
Beyond announced a month ago they are "breaking up" temporarily. Surely I don't believe a group that _is_ the Hong Kong culture is eager to break up.
America, even with its BackStreets and 36 2/3 degrees celcius, does have an incredible amount of original music.
what do you define as "orginal"? The Hong Kong music industry rarely licenses songs from abroad anymore (as I have mentioned in another post). If you include "non-inspired music" as "orginal", then it's total bs, since every BackStreet boys song sound exactly the same.
Much of its ideas are not original and were "copied" from the West.
I see. So where did John Woo copy his ideas from? I'm surprised to see a copycat like him do so well in Hollywood. The reason that there's a talentdrain in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is because there's more money to be made from Hollywood movies. They get funded better, because a movie made in English would have better sales compared to a movie made in Cantonese. Their leaving is certainly not linked to the lack of quality productions as you mislead it to be.
but the worst part is that there are practically no "artists" anymore who actually come up with their own music (one exception is Beyond, a band in HK.)
You're outdated by at least six years. Beyond isn't the only band producing original music (but they sure are one band producing originall shoddy music that doesn't sell). Most of the artists don't license songs from abroad anymore. Faye Wong? She has been singing original songs for a since 1994.
A Hong Kong-nese mentality is that "if I can get it for less, then I will get it for less". They lack an understanding for intellectual property, and it has nothing to do with the fact if the work is "high quality" or not. Of course, you fail to mention that American movies made on VCDs sell like hotcakes in Hong Kong.
Sorry for sounding so harsh, but I have to counter-argue Hong Kong FUD when I see it.
The whole point of having little icons for each topic is that you can avoid complete topics you don't like in your preferences. If I need dogma to dictate my slashdot news, I would be reading GPL/Linux anti-Microsoft news all day long.
You could "moderate" the articles you like up and those you thought irrevelant down. Then the average/.'er opinion would be known.
HUH? Great, now we have/.ers who decided that they should control what news I read. Moderation is good for sorting more than 50 comments, but why the hell do we need moderation for the 10 articles per day?
If you're not satisfied with the proprietary nature of Java on Linux, you should contribute to GNU Classpath, a set of clean room classfiles that attempts to support Java 1.1, and possibly 1.2.
It's in a early stage right now (version 0.0), but should more people hack on it, we can say bye-bye to Sun.
The issue at hand is not that "corporate" is not willing to open up the specs. The real problem is the fundamental way most OSes realize their GUI on the display. They were designed with the "traditional" monitors in mind. With new monitors from IBM/Toshiba that supports double the resolution in the same amount of space, everything - icons, menu bars, EVERYTHING looks half as small on the monitor. What we realy need is let go of everything bitmap, and implement the GUI in vector and True Type Fonts.
Richard Stallman would probably organize a boycott against AC current, and would encourage everyone to tear down the AC power lines. "No more AC! DC is the way to go!"
haha, hoohoo, hoe boy, what you said just as funny. Somebody help me stop laughing!!!!!
On a slightly more serious note, I can't believe people still find unoriginal cheap jabs at Microsoft funny anymore. "Hey that guys mentioned something about blue screens! micro$uck$!! hahahaha!!! windo$w$!! n0tice the dollar $ign$!! I'm a comedian too!"
then find the mars polar lander! oh, we have signals too! damn, everything is getting resolved today. Guess there won't be news on slashdot tomorrow.;-P
Nope. DVDs are easily manufacturable in Hong Kong and mainland China now. In fact, someone made Star Wars trilogies into DVDs from their LaserDisc counterpart (which is still much higher quality than VCDs)
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cd-rom media of this size currently can't hold 140mb of data.
certainly not for already-compressed media.
how do they fit 140 MB of data onto this card? I believe those cards are itself trimmed from 8cm media cards, which hold 140 mb of data or 21 minutes. With the top and bottom trimmed, isn't the largest available data on the CD bounded by the shortest diameter? (in other words, much less than 140mb?)
+5 for creativity. It does look like a ransom note ;)
JonKatz would probably kick everyone's ass with over 90% of the total bytes in body.
cha-ching! That's why Mozilla is still considered alpha. When you try out the early Mozilla betas, they might be more on par with what you had before.
8) Turn off Netscape.
mjuarez, I guess you beat me to it!
No, I didn't deliberately misundertand you. Using anything other than BackStreet Boys wouldn't be a fair apples to apples comparison, since there's a high degree of similarity across the board for pop music in ANY country.
Maybe I shouldn't have put Faye on "the list", but I just can't accept the fact that an "artist" in her own words copies music from groups like the Cranberries (though its done legally)
Again, I don't know why you're bringing up a situation that ceased to exist 6 whole years ago, but it was very common thing to license music back then, simply because there was a lack of talent of that sort in Hong Kong back then (please be reminded that Hong Kong has a total population of 6 million people - they don't have a niche for everything back then). Of course, like I said this point is nil, since almost no artists do that now.
Well, they don't "license" it anymore, but copy 75% of the song to claim to be Artists instead of singers. Take a look at the recent press in Ming Pao Entertainment when they ripped music from Singapore. I think it has become better tho, because this time the press actually exposed them.
You're right, but you missed the point. The very act of newspapers exposing them shows that the public doesn't condones such action, and we find it very intolerable as well. In fact, another artist was recently accused of copying (almost note for note) a Thai song of 2 years ago. He was placed in under public scrutiny, ranging from enraged music fans, to music directors, and awards were even considered to be evoked.
Your example not only proves my point that Hong Kong doesn't show a "it's ok" attitude towards copycat artists. Please don't insult the Hong Kong entertainment industry anymore. Thanks.
By what measure do you assess "talent"? Faye Wong possess a very beautiful voice (which is already a "real talent" for ANYONE that listens to music).
(Beyond, on the other hand, _is_ Hong Kong culture! :-)
Beyond announced a month ago they are "breaking up" temporarily. Surely I don't believe a group that _is_ the Hong Kong culture is eager to break up.
America, even with its BackStreets and 36 2/3 degrees celcius, does have an incredible amount of original music.
what do you define as "orginal"? The Hong Kong music industry rarely licenses songs from abroad anymore (as I have mentioned in another post). If you include "non-inspired music" as "orginal", then it's total bs, since every BackStreet boys song sound exactly the same.
Much of its ideas are not original and were "copied" from the West.
I see. So where did John Woo copy his ideas from? I'm surprised to see a copycat like him do so well in Hollywood. The reason that there's a talentdrain in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is because there's more money to be made from Hollywood movies. They get funded better, because a movie made in English would have better sales compared to a movie made in Cantonese. Their leaving is certainly not linked to the lack of quality productions as you mislead it to be.
but the worst part is that there are practically no "artists" anymore who actually come up with their own music (one exception is Beyond, a band in HK.)
You're outdated by at least six years. Beyond isn't the only band producing original music (but they sure are one band producing originall shoddy music that doesn't sell). Most of the artists don't license songs from abroad anymore. Faye Wong? She has been singing original songs for a since 1994.
A Hong Kong-nese mentality is that "if I can get it for less, then I will get it for less". They lack an understanding for intellectual property, and it has nothing to do with the fact if the work is "high quality" or not. Of course, you fail to mention that American movies made on VCDs sell like hotcakes in Hong Kong.
Sorry for sounding so harsh, but I have to counter-argue Hong Kong FUD when I see it.
http://slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=00/02/21/1125208&mode=thread
It was there this morning, and it's gone now. Why?
The whole point of having little icons for each topic is that you can avoid complete topics you don't like in your preferences. If I need dogma to dictate my slashdot news, I would be reading GPL/Linux anti-Microsoft news all day long.
I pity you for having this anti-commercialism attitude. Maybe you should retire to a Shaolin temple in China?
HUH? Great, now we have /.ers who decided that they should control what news I read. Moderation is good for sorting more than 50 comments, but why the hell do we need moderation for the 10 articles per day?
niekze's Slashdot - "We talk about love, friendship, family, happiness, and all things money can't buy!!!"
It's in a early stage right now (version 0.0), but should more people hack on it, we can say bye-bye to Sun.
The issue at hand is not that "corporate" is not willing to open up the specs. The real problem is the fundamental way most OSes realize their GUI on the display. They were designed with the "traditional" monitors in mind. With new monitors from IBM/Toshiba that supports double the resolution in the same amount of space, everything - icons, menu bars, EVERYTHING looks half as small on the monitor. What we realy need is let go of everything bitmap, and implement the GUI in vector and True Type Fonts.
Richard Stallman would probably organize a boycott against AC current, and would encourage everyone to tear down the AC power lines. "No more AC! DC is the way to go!"
It would be everything Y2k was supposed to be!
*shudder*
Sorry to find out that you don't like the sense of humor of the Earthlings! tee hee!
And give us back our Mars Polar Lander, biatch!
in my country, we call that a parody, not a troll. my regrets go to your lack of sense of humor.
On a slightly more serious note, I can't believe people still find unoriginal cheap jabs at Microsoft funny anymore. "Hey that guys mentioned something about blue screens! micro$uck$!! hahahaha!!! windo$w$!! n0tice the dollar $ign$!! I'm a comedian too!"
I'm really sorry, but I'm curious why it has a Score 5 (I'm not bitching, I just want to know why it's so funny :P)
well um, save etoy.com! oops, done too.
then find the mars polar lander! oh, we have signals too! damn, everything is getting resolved today. Guess there won't be news on slashdot tomorrow. ;-P
Nope. DVDs are easily manufacturable in Hong Kong and mainland China now. In fact, someone made Star Wars trilogies into DVDs from their LaserDisc counterpart (which is still much higher quality than VCDs)