I am a mulatto west indian-american. I kinda look Middle Eastern or Pakistanian. I have been stopped everytime. Apparently I fit a profile on how my tickets were bought also, online.
One question. Why the fuck is everyone feeling fine 'cause spot checking is instituted in this non random fashion that I always get checked? I mean what the fuck. Now it's no longer driving while black but flying while brown? CHECKING THE SAME PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ISN'T SECURE!!! And it makes people feel like shit.
Thank you Bush, thank you America, for making your own citizens feel unwelcome. jackasses..
Re-encoding all those mp3's would take a LOT of time. I lost my mp3 collection and had to re-encode. I'ts taking me weeks only 'cause I don't have a lot of time being at home.
Easy way to backup, as you said, is to mirror. A cheap ide raid card and a second drive is a $400 solution. And if you wished to backup to a second source, buy a second drive, plop it in a backup computer to be a remote mirror.
Well, here's the big question. Supplying that your encoding alg has become outdated, but you wanna use it, would you conform to popular opinion or stick with what you like? With Ogg, there's that choice since the software will be around forever. With beta-max, there isn't.:)
Mp3 is in a similar position as ogg, except it has popularity.
My point isn't why beta-max isn't used nor if ogg will never see players. It's more of ogg being in a similar position as beta-max. None-the-less, I believe the outcome will be different. It will be more of a cult thing that will stick around for a long time vs beta-max.
Two points you bring up which are relevant to why ogg will stick around at least as a cult thing:
You say mp3 costs money. I've never paid for winamp or iTunes. Neither will ogg. It's a popularity race in that case. Will I use ogg to encode? I doubt it, I like my mp3 collection. Space is cheap. My time isn't;)
You bring up quality. Ogg may or may not have a better audio quality. I can encode with mp3 to match ogg, just at different bitrates to make them sound mostly alike. With betamax, we had no choice since it never hit the consumer... much if at all. We were spoonfed.
Today it's cheap to build beta-max, no? So producers have a choice to sell onto customers.
Plus, people who had the master copy of a video could choose beta-max or vhs. Unfortunately, copies available to the consumer market was usually vhs. With Ogg, mp3, wav, wma, we have the hardware already so we get to choose the format.
No matter where ogg might go, mp3 has a foothold. There's a difference though. Using Ogg for your music collection is easy since the medium you rip from is the same as mp3. Most of my music collection I own. I don't get my mp3's from friends either. I just borrow their cd's. So using Ogg won't be hard. And being opensource, it'll stick around until something blows it and mp3 out of the water:) As for the hardware players, give it time, we'll have devices that support wma, mp3 AND ogg.
lol, i'm talking about new motherboard, cpu and so forth. Apple mb/cpu's go a long way for their worth. Wssn't it just two years ago 900 mhz machines came out?
Further proving the point, it's about hardware and making it look more attractive. That's why the PC 2 gigahertz is so "great". it's fast enough to run good software. If the hardware was shitty (win 3.11), or the software non-existant, who would stay with the PC?
But think, how many people have pirated OSX. My good friend pirated it. Now how many people have pirated a full machine? As an apple customer, now adicted to the damned machine, my next machine will be another Mac. $1500 every 5 years or $100 every year. Yes, I lose out, but apple wins. So in the end I win.
And btw.. Juguar already has the better new proposed name. Mac OS/2 X.
Apple is in the buisness of selling complete solutions starting with hardware. That's a good chunk of their money. Would all those that switched from a pc to a mac for a "better" os have done so if they could have run it on a pc? Doubt it.
I was the same way, but between OSX getting the OS right, following FreeBSD's layout (imho:) and not wanting to worry about hardware anymore, it was a clear winner for me.
As for the minor upgrade thing, $100 a year to keep on the ball isn't bad, especially for a "good" company like apple. Yes, don't bring up quicktime, it's been said and said again. But that is a different argument. Frankly, Apple needs the support. I equate it to giving charity to your favourite free software developer, in the case of Apple.
Um, depends on your perspective of things. One entity is going to DoS annother entity. Forget who the entities are, just think of them as just entities.
What can you do about it? - the user can drop packets - the isp can block traffic - the isp can take the offender to court for disruption of service
So now what do you propose to do on the threat of an attack? Simple: prepare for it. The RIAA upstream obviously won't cut them off, so the ISP's themselves will have to protect themselves.
In a land of no laws (or few), especially the internet, it is best to protect your assets since no one else will step in. Especially if the RIAA is going to flood not only one member of your isp off, but the entire isp!
What incentive is there? Not to stare at other people. People on subwas tend to stare off into nowhere at times. Now we have someplace to look if we aren't reading or something else.
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I've just been scarred by too many checks where it is me and a few other "indian" looking other folks.
I am a mulatto west indian-american. I kinda look Middle Eastern or Pakistanian. I have been stopped everytime. Apparently I fit a profile on how my tickets were bought also, online.
One question. Why the fuck is everyone feeling fine 'cause spot checking is instituted in this non random fashion that I always get checked? I mean what the fuck. Now it's no longer driving while black but flying while brown? CHECKING THE SAME PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ISN'T SECURE!!! And it makes people feel like shit.
Thank you Bush, thank you America, for making your own citizens feel unwelcome. jackasses..
Essential Flogging for the developers dealing with management.
Re-encoding all those mp3's would take a LOT of time. I lost my mp3 collection and had to re-encode. I'ts taking me weeks only 'cause I don't have a lot of time being at home.
Easy way to backup, as you said, is to mirror. A cheap ide raid card and a second drive is a $400 solution. And if you wished to backup to a second source, buy a second drive, plop it in a backup computer to be a remote mirror.
Is this how they got "time" to bend around corners in the explosion in the movie, Time Machine?
I still have no clue who thought of the idea of time being fluid...
What about all of the GPL players that don't use the patents? They won't ever go away, so why not stick with mp3's?
More importantly, you can use the format without any hardware.
That's very true.
:)
Well, here's the big question. Supplying that your encoding alg has become outdated, but you wanna use it, would you conform to popular opinion or stick with what you like? With Ogg, there's that choice since the software will be around forever. With beta-max, there isn't.
Mp3 is in a similar position as ogg, except it has popularity.
My point isn't why beta-max isn't used nor if ogg will never see players. It's more of ogg being in a similar position as beta-max. None-the-less, I believe the outcome will be different. It will be more of a cult thing that will stick around for a long time vs beta-max.
;)
Two points you bring up which are relevant to why ogg will stick around at least as a cult thing:
You say mp3 costs money. I've never paid for winamp or iTunes. Neither will ogg. It's a popularity race in that case. Will I use ogg to encode? I doubt it, I like my mp3 collection. Space is cheap. My time isn't
You bring up quality. Ogg may or may not have a better audio quality. I can encode with mp3 to match ogg, just at different bitrates to make them sound mostly alike. With betamax, we had no choice since it never hit the consumer... much if at all. We were spoonfed.
Two points to think about:
Today it's cheap to build beta-max, no? So producers have a choice to sell onto customers.
Plus, people who had the master copy of a video could choose beta-max or vhs. Unfortunately, copies available to the consumer market was usually vhs. With Ogg, mp3, wav, wma, we have the hardware already so we get to choose the format.
Two-words. Maybe one ;) -- Beta-max.
:) As for the hardware players, give it time, we'll have devices that support wma, mp3 AND ogg.
No matter where ogg might go, mp3 has a foothold. There's a difference though. Using Ogg for your music collection is easy since the medium you rip from is the same as mp3. Most of my music collection I own. I don't get my mp3's from friends either. I just borrow their cd's. So using Ogg won't be hard. And being opensource, it'll stick around until something blows it and mp3 out of the water
Ug, and you really don't have any humour, since trying to make fact funny doesn't always work. Wait a sec... damnit.
It's called skywriting. Just gotta watch out for those gusts of wind.
Then wouldnt' the process be...
- get recognition as a religion
- use it everywhere
Trademarks, patents and copyrights work best that way, if you make sure people know they are just that.
lol, i'm talking about new motherboard, cpu and so forth. Apple mb/cpu's go a long way for their worth. Wssn't it just two years ago 900 mhz machines came out?
apple is a good place to start ;P
Further proving the point, it's about hardware and making it look more attractive. That's why the PC 2 gigahertz is so "great". it's fast enough to run good software. If the hardware was shitty (win 3.11), or the software non-existant, who would stay with the PC?
lol re: mac os x 86.
But think, how many people have pirated OSX. My good friend pirated it. Now how many people have pirated a full machine? As an apple customer, now adicted to the damned machine, my next machine will be another Mac. $1500 every 5 years or $100 every year. Yes, I lose out, but apple wins. So in the end I win.
And btw.. Juguar already has the better new proposed name. Mac OS/2 X.
Apple is in the buisness of selling complete solutions starting with hardware. That's a good chunk of their money. Would all those that switched from a pc to a mac for a "better" os have done so if they could have run it on a pc? Doubt it.
I was the same way, but between OSX getting the OS right, following FreeBSD's layout (imho :) and not wanting to worry about hardware anymore, it was a clear winner for me.
As for the minor upgrade thing, $100 a year to keep on the ball isn't bad, especially for a "good" company like apple. Yes, don't bring up quicktime, it's been said and said again. But that is a different argument. Frankly, Apple needs the support. I equate it to giving charity to your favourite free software developer, in the case of Apple.
Um, depends on your perspective of things. One entity is going to DoS annother entity. Forget who the entities are, just think of them as just entities.
What can you do about it?
- the user can drop packets
- the isp can block traffic
- the isp can take the offender to court for disruption of service
So now what do you propose to do on the threat of an attack? Simple: prepare for it. The RIAA upstream obviously won't cut them off, so the ISP's themselves will have to protect themselves.
In a land of no laws (or few), especially the internet, it is best to protect your assets since no one else will step in. Especially if the RIAA is going to flood not only one member of your isp off, but the entire isp!
Yeah, becareful of this one on interviews. I accidentally thought they meant the same thing. :)
Unless you live in certain states. NYC you have to be 18 unless you are accompanied by a licensed driver.
LSB seems to require redhat packages. They can't use triggers and some other things, but it is required they used rpm.
What incentive is there? Not to stare at other people. People on subwas tend to stare off into nowhere at times. Now we have someplace to look if we aren't reading or something else.
Ads in books, now THAT'd be annoying.