as long as there are format wars, there will be translating. I'd convert to good ol' WAV myself, it's the Red Book standard encoding as found on CDs worldwide.
you can't fight tyranny by operating in partnership with it. data wants to be free, and google of all outfits should understand the concept. it's a plain old sell-out to self-censor in china. the domestic equivalent is if I do a search on "hillary's presidential campaign," the terror alarm goes off at the nsa along with my IP address. it is wholly inconsistent for google to fight NSA snoops and knuckle under to china. and as we all know, wholly inconsistent usually adds up to "somebody's hiding money."
I have a bunch of music I treasure that is NOT availiable on CD, and is NOT readily availiable, or availiable at all, on CD any more. RIAA is just so full of crap that they rot the floor behind them wherever they go.
and tightening the channel. same thing that symantec does when they buy another tools/antivirus vendor, they kill a competing brand, offer one cost-of-media upgrade to the users, and RIF the staff. except for maybe one or two wonks.
and about 5 years later, an atari 400 came home with me, replete with an Oki 82a printer. first hack was putting a real keyboard on it, haywiring an old Univac keyboard to the Atari matrix and bringing it in on a DB-25 connector. second was putting in a 48K ram overlay board kit. ran that thing until I got my first 286. the atari's box still holds my audio cables;)
and if verizion doesn't think they get a good return on investment at 12.99 a month for DSL (which is a fire sale price, and they sure as hell don't get ROI on that), then they need to raise their rates. you can believe they won't be charging 12.99 or anything like that on their direct fiber line, and the CPE to terminate that line in the home is not going to be wholesaleing to them at $20 a pop, either. more like $400 wholesale to Very Zoned, and they will get their cut reselling it to John Doe, believe that.
the users want the bandwidth so they can get the content they want. if Very Zoned can't understand that, then they won't have customers any more. they can advertise their private network all they want, one that doesn't connect to The Connected Internet, and they can choke on it.
electrical switchgear and turbines, which is part of Siemens... or the historic Westinghouse of air brakes, which is part of Honeywell, through the Allied Signal/Bendix merger... or the Westinghouse of light bulbs and fans, which is some marketer with two tin desks, two telephones, 500 folks with red ties, and containers of Stuff from China arriving daily on docks.
such is the stuff of de-mergers of the US' industrial base in the late 80s and 1990s.
malware authors should be expected to have outstanding wants and warrants against them, and then we'd have no more silly nonsense from the malware author about protecting his rights to screw others' rights.
I can see the front desk at the Pinville FBI office now...
"I want to arrest rumormonger Doctorow."
"Malware author, eh? Get a rope, Billy, we got one."
bill gates is already the world's biggest philanthropist, and his work to try and blunt murderous disease that mutates and becomes epidemic where we don't look every day overseas is perhaps the greatest humanitarian act of this age. his tutelage under warren buffett should also get buffett into the book of saints, even if his straightforward and objective investments don't make a word of print.
steve jobs continues to wear the mantle of humanizing technology and making the power availiable in easy to use form.
I should think neither is much fun to be around for the average joe. both are driven people who feel the weight of limited time on them. but from a distance, they both outclass scott mcnelly of sun, captain pissy of oracle, and the rest of the industry icons.
news this week: Ford is putting an E85 engine into the hybrid escape.
if these car outfits really mean what they say, EVERY hybrid engine should accept E85. as should every auto meant for the mass market. it isn't rocket science, just put stainless steel in the fuel rail system instead of aluminum, and change rubber gasket composition. twenty bucks a car, max.
we can't farm our way out of being an energy slave to the middle east, but it's a damn good start... and in case of their trying to pull another "arab oil shock of 1976," we can just tell them to cob off.
as insurance stops covering more and more procedures, the X-rays get touched up rather than the operation gets scheduled. when peer review and editor review finds these things, they ought to alternate-page the publications... left side, the author's stuff, right page, the evidence discovered that, ahhhh, suggests a lack of evidentiary demonstration and perspicacity on the part of the authors. (because none dare call it fraud and weaselness.)
first, only those with hot broadband need apply. a telco exec told a conference once (jokingly) that the plan to broaden DSL availiability in North Dakota was to move everybody who wanted it to Fargo at their expense. it would be cheaper than a buildout. changes in (smaller, cheaper) availiable DSLAMs provide a little more hope than that, but it's still pricey to do. no hope of running cable out to Southeast Armpit, and while satellite is there, the uplink is laughable and you have that 500 mS latency one-way to deal with.
second, you can't have another contract wizard in Zap when you already have one in Maza and one in Langdon and one in Maxbass... and on and on for about 200 small towns. just in North Dakota.
unless you break up, say, IBM Global Services and force all employees to move to some little burg with no stoplight, no gas station, and hold all their meetings by NetConference.
nah, totally bogus statements that supertech will save small town America.
and I see it at least daily during construction season. just because you have two carriers doesn't mean their fibers don't run in the same duct, everybody cross-leases dark fiber to everybody else.
you need protection from backhoe fade, you have to do the interagency engineering for separate feeds on separate systems from separate directions. will at least triple your cost to bring it up.
quite familiar with them, and the 10 and higher megapixel stuff is going to challenge those lines hard. very hard.
halide photography is on the downslide from commercial product to art form, and it's sliding fast. once the theater market for 35mm and larger strip forms disappears, and the holdup really is getting a common distribution system and theater equipment in place, you're down to the real nutcutting.
that's just a matter of getting financing out to theater chains and the remaining independents.
without the volume on the strip film lines, making the film base for slitting and perforating for your sheet and 6x7 lines is going down to one machine someplace. probably pitomania or whichever island is above water once a month for the low labor rates, and hang the quality on those intermittent and indifferently-maintained coating lines.
you may have a botique producer, like the german outfit that stamps fine 180-gram LP records, but if the volume falls there, film is fully over. if you have a sinar, start looking for glass plateholders. you can recoat your own glass, it was done in the 1910s.
you haven't been able to get mag stripe film for 2 or 3 years now. there is no single-system market of any kind in movie film, none.
there is still a market for the arriflex and nagra crowd, but that's thinning out, with even feature film distribution going to direct digital to theater servers.
we now have all of agfa, sakura, konica/minolta, 3M, and most of ilford a lot of kodak's lines of film off the market. kodak closed its color paper plants in colorado, the last lines I think are in spain and brazil.
it's very thin out there, protect your sources. same for tape for that nagra you probably use, quantegy solved their strike and they're the world's last source of reel audio tape.
the same thing happened to 16mm film in the news business around 1978 - 1979. ENG minicams and tape started infiltrating newsrooms, and everybody was saying they'd keep both. we moved our color processor into the basement, and I built a splash pan for the open-bottom drain. frezzolini was saying their next cameras would be computer-controlled and monitored to the extent that you would know which cell of the battery pack was dying.
but this coincided with kodak's deciding to drop E4 for E6 color processing, and E6 was desperately sensitive to water pH. in other words, all of a sudden, your film came out either deep blue or wildly yellow.
this plus the one-time nature of film costs put film out of business in our 8-station tv operation in four months.
if you can find ANY new film cameras, ANY, offered in one year, it will be a major surprise. I suspect canon and nikon will offer one more digital back for their F lines, and that will be it. the major players in one-use supermarket cameras will be offering digital one-shots by next christmas, probably on the order of grill gas bottles... pay $50 up front, swap the camera for $10 when this one is full.
glorious silver halide photography, R I P. don't dip a finger to taste the developer any more, it's done.
to "leech" is to grab on forcefully with suckers and never let go.
to "leach" is to wash out part of the substrate, as in "the acid rain leached the limestone until the hill crumbled."
LEACH would appear to be the correct word if the substance of the linked report says that search engines are removing monetary value from the website. it is a neutral word.
leech implies malice aforethought, as in "the leeches sucked the prize trout dry, and the annual catch of Ol' Bugeyes occurred no more on Swift Creek." if there are websites out there to posit a hue and cry over deep linking, then the search engines have not killed the whole web yet.
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what the hooting and hollering is REALLY about is over who controls when and how you get to see content. if somebody doesn't want you to deep link, they should set a session cookie on the home page with a timer, and anybody trying to see the link without the cookie should get a page of photoshopped porn. creatively, photoshopped porn from a published picture of the CEO of the listed owner of the seeking service (if you have registered 127.0.0.1, for an example, to Halliburton addresses in the whois, you get porn of the CEO of halliburton lifted from an annual report with the animal of the day.)
that would eventually stop deep links. alternately, everybody might decide to never visit, say, the new york times website again in protest. The Community out here would make the decision on what they want to see with each click, and under whose rules... and the argument would be over.
until content providers start making it most untasteful to use search engine links, screw 'em, that's how The Community wants to use their website. change The Community if you don't like it. if The Community doesn't like you, then YOU change or die. because The Connected Internet is a function of what the users, The Community, wants.
the problem will continue. it seems the only government agency that piped up about the threat, DHS, should be the lead agency to recover all copies under Sony's dollar.
wait, this fits too many doomsday scenarios.
is this all A Plot?
you AGREED to it, folks. in the EULA.
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besides, I want everybody to know what legal music I like. skew the purchase of additional rights, that kind of stuff. Apple didn't hide nothing.
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as long as there are format wars, there will be translating. I'd convert to good ol' WAV myself, it's the Red Book standard encoding as found on CDs worldwide.
and I assume the signal voltage levels are different than one volt, since the connector is digital with status leads
you can't fight tyranny by operating in partnership with it. data wants to be free, and google of all outfits should understand the concept. it's a plain old sell-out to self-censor in china. the domestic equivalent is if I do a search on "hillary's presidential campaign," the terror alarm goes off at the nsa along with my IP address. it is wholly inconsistent for google to fight NSA snoops and knuckle under to china. and as we all know, wholly inconsistent usually adds up to "somebody's hiding money."
I have a bunch of music I treasure that is NOT availiable on CD, and is NOT readily availiable, or availiable at all, on CD any more. RIAA is just so full of crap that they rot the floor behind them wherever they go.
and tightening the channel. same thing that symantec does when they buy another tools/antivirus vendor, they kill a competing brand, offer one cost-of-media upgrade to the users, and RIF the staff. except for maybe one or two wonks.
oracle is taking out competitors.
and about 5 years later, an atari 400 came home with me, replete with an Oki 82a printer. first hack was putting a real keyboard on it, haywiring an old Univac keyboard to the Atari matrix and bringing it in on a DB-25 connector. second was putting in a 48K ram overlay board kit. ran that thing until I got my first 286. the atari's box still holds my audio cables ;)
and that linux, unix, os/x, etc etc etc is the solution.
it's well known that britons drink warm beer because their refrigerators are made by lucal electric.
they've got to have the notes around someplace yet at apple.
the liquid cooled sensors will, no doubt, be cooled in beer, then.
and if verizion doesn't think they get a good return on investment at 12.99 a month for DSL (which is a fire sale price, and they sure as hell don't get ROI on that), then they need to raise their rates. you can believe they won't be charging 12.99 or anything like that on their direct fiber line, and the CPE to terminate that line in the home is not going to be wholesaleing to them at $20 a pop, either. more like $400 wholesale to Very Zoned, and they will get their cut reselling it to John Doe, believe that.
the users want the bandwidth so they can get the content they want. if Very Zoned can't understand that, then they won't have customers any more. they can advertise their private network all they want, one that doesn't connect to The Connected Internet, and they can choke on it.
Ivan is just plain goofy on this.
electrical switchgear and turbines, which is part of Siemens... or the historic Westinghouse of air brakes, which is part of Honeywell, through the Allied Signal/Bendix merger... or the Westinghouse of light bulbs and fans, which is some marketer with two tin desks, two telephones, 500 folks with red ties, and containers of Stuff from China arriving daily on docks.
such is the stuff of de-mergers of the US' industrial base in the late 80s and 1990s.
malware authors should be expected to have outstanding wants and warrants against them, and then we'd have no more silly nonsense from the malware author about protecting his rights to screw others' rights.
I can see the front desk at the Pinville FBI office now...
"I want to arrest rumormonger Doctorow."
"Malware author, eh? Get a rope, Billy, we got one."
bill gates is already the world's biggest philanthropist, and his work to try and blunt murderous disease that mutates and becomes epidemic where we don't look every day overseas is perhaps the greatest humanitarian act of this age. his tutelage under warren buffett should also get buffett into the book of saints, even if his straightforward and objective investments don't make a word of print.
steve jobs continues to wear the mantle of humanizing technology and making the power availiable in easy to use form.
I should think neither is much fun to be around for the average joe. both are driven people who feel the weight of limited time on them. but from a distance, they both outclass scott mcnelly of sun, captain pissy of oracle, and the rest of the industry icons.
deliver in pallets of slightly used 20's please, to the lobby of my bank. details on request.
news this week: Ford is putting an E85 engine into the hybrid escape.
if these car outfits really mean what they say, EVERY hybrid engine should accept E85. as should every auto meant for the mass market. it isn't rocket science, just put stainless steel in the fuel rail system instead of aluminum, and change rubber gasket composition. twenty bucks a car, max.
we can't farm our way out of being an energy slave to the middle east, but it's a damn good start... and in case of their trying to pull another "arab oil shock of 1976," we can just tell them to cob off.
as insurance stops covering more and more procedures, the X-rays get touched up rather than the operation gets scheduled. when peer review and editor review finds these things, they ought to alternate-page the publications... left side, the author's stuff, right page, the evidence discovered that, ahhhh, suggests a lack of evidentiary demonstration and perspicacity on the part of the authors. (because none dare call it fraud and weaselness.)
first, only those with hot broadband need apply. a telco exec told a conference once (jokingly) that the plan to broaden DSL availiability in North Dakota was to move everybody who wanted it to Fargo at their expense. it would be cheaper than a buildout. changes in (smaller, cheaper) availiable DSLAMs provide a little more hope than that, but it's still pricey to do. no hope of running cable out to Southeast Armpit, and while satellite is there, the uplink is laughable and you have that 500 mS latency one-way to deal with.
second, you can't have another contract wizard in Zap when you already have one in Maza and one in Langdon and one in Maxbass... and on and on for about 200 small towns. just in North Dakota.
unless you break up, say, IBM Global Services and force all employees to move to some little burg with no stoplight, no gas station, and hold all their meetings by NetConference.
nah, totally bogus statements that supertech will save small town America.
and I see it at least daily during construction season. just because you have two carriers doesn't mean their fibers don't run in the same duct, everybody cross-leases dark fiber to everybody else.
you need protection from backhoe fade, you have to do the interagency engineering for separate feeds on separate systems from separate directions. will at least triple your cost to bring it up.
quite familiar with them, and the 10 and higher megapixel stuff is going to challenge those lines hard. very hard.
halide photography is on the downslide from commercial product to art form, and it's sliding fast. once the theater market for 35mm and larger strip forms disappears, and the holdup really is getting a common distribution system and theater equipment in place, you're down to the real nutcutting.
that's just a matter of getting financing out to theater chains and the remaining independents.
without the volume on the strip film lines, making the film base for slitting and perforating for your sheet and 6x7 lines is going down to one machine someplace. probably pitomania or whichever island is above water once a month for the low labor rates, and hang the quality on those intermittent and indifferently-maintained coating lines.
you may have a botique producer, like the german outfit that stamps fine 180-gram LP records, but if the volume falls there, film is fully over. if you have a sinar, start looking for glass plateholders. you can recoat your own glass, it was done in the 1910s.
you haven't been able to get mag stripe film for 2 or 3 years now. there is no single-system market of any kind in movie film, none.
there is still a market for the arriflex and nagra crowd, but that's thinning out, with even feature film distribution going to direct digital to theater servers.
we now have all of agfa, sakura, konica/minolta, 3M, and most of ilford a lot of kodak's lines of film off the market. kodak closed its color paper plants in colorado, the last lines I think are in spain and brazil.
it's very thin out there, protect your sources. same for tape for that nagra you probably use, quantegy solved their strike and they're the world's last source of reel audio tape.
the same thing happened to 16mm film in the news business around 1978 - 1979. ENG minicams and tape started infiltrating newsrooms, and everybody was saying they'd keep both. we moved our color processor into the basement, and I built a splash pan for the open-bottom drain. frezzolini was saying their next cameras would be computer-controlled and monitored to the extent that you would know which cell of the battery pack was dying.
but this coincided with kodak's deciding to drop E4 for E6 color processing, and E6 was desperately sensitive to water pH. in other words, all of a sudden, your film came out either deep blue or wildly yellow.
this plus the one-time nature of film costs put film out of business in our 8-station tv operation in four months.
if you can find ANY new film cameras, ANY, offered in one year, it will be a major surprise. I suspect canon and nikon will offer one more digital back for their F lines, and that will be it. the major players in one-use supermarket cameras will be offering digital one-shots by next christmas, probably on the order of grill gas bottles... pay $50 up front, swap the camera for $10 when this one is full.
glorious silver halide photography, R I P. don't dip a finger to taste the developer any more, it's done.
to "leech" is to grab on forcefully with suckers and never let go.
to "leach" is to wash out part of the substrate, as in "the acid rain leached the limestone until the hill crumbled."
LEACH would appear to be the correct word if the substance of the linked report says that search engines are removing monetary value from the website. it is a neutral word.
leech implies malice aforethought, as in "the leeches sucked the prize trout dry, and the annual catch of Ol' Bugeyes occurred no more on Swift Creek." if there are websites out there to posit a hue and cry over deep linking, then the search engines have not killed the whole web yet.
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what the hooting and hollering is REALLY about is over who controls when and how you get to see content. if somebody doesn't want you to deep link, they should set a session cookie on the home page with a timer, and anybody trying to see the link without the cookie should get a page of photoshopped porn. creatively, photoshopped porn from a published picture of the CEO of the listed owner of the seeking service (if you have registered 127.0.0.1, for an example, to Halliburton addresses in the whois, you get porn of the CEO of halliburton lifted from an annual report with the animal of the day.)
that would eventually stop deep links. alternately, everybody might decide to never visit, say, the new york times website again in protest. The Community out here would make the decision on what they want to see with each click, and under whose rules... and the argument would be over.
until content providers start making it most untasteful to use search engine links, screw 'em, that's how The Community wants to use their website. change The Community if you don't like it. if The Community doesn't like you, then YOU change or die. because The Connected Internet is a function of what the users, The Community, wants.
the problem will continue. it seems the only government agency that piped up about the threat, DHS, should be the lead agency to recover all copies under Sony's dollar.
wait, this fits too many doomsday scenarios.
is this all A Plot?
besides, I want everybody to know what legal music I like. skew the purchase of additional rights, that kind of stuff. Apple didn't hide nothing.