From what I recall of the format, though, at least with these, it's a strange sort of "affirmative DRM", in that the CD portion of the disc isn't corrupt, but you "have to" (if you don't know how to turn off Autorun) load the player/driver, which includes a wedge program that scrambles reads from the CD-ROM if the disc is marked. If I'm not mistaken, it's plain CDDA if you never load the "driver". So, if the security software says "no", then the installer won't run, and you'll just have a plain ol' Multi-mode format CD in the drive.
It's really a shame, though, that CDDA doesn't support multichannel audio out of the box. That means there's a real competitive advantage for a next-gen audio format, which will undoubtedly end up having integrated DRM ability. Until then, there are predominant existing media (with consumer-ubiquitous players) to openly encode most current DRMed content, which means that DRM can't completely take over with the current 2-channel audio format.
Centralized playlists mean there is no competition between radio stations any more. Take away even the role of the DJ as more than a programmed talking head, and there's no chance for anything else to get sent down the pipes.
Radio always was, and still is, the way most music gets sent out to most people, it's just that the landscape of radio has changed.
Honey? Where's the dead cat? It's in the gas tank. But there's, uh, diesel, in the gas tank. That's right, there's a whole dead cat in every tank of Dead Cat Diesel.
This is true, but what I'm saying is that, although they can't squeeze blood from you, you have no chance of ever rising much above "turnip" without them starting to squeeze again... of course, if one was mobile, like you said...
Counterpoint (Mann, 1961): Who put the bomp in the bomp-bah-bomp-bah-bomp? Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding dong? Who put the bop in the bop shoo-bop shoo-bop? Who put the dip in the dip-da-dip-da-dip? Who was that man? I'd like to shake his hand. He made my baby fall in love with me.
And we can probably infer what happened from there. This is surely not an isolated case.
To deny that the RIAA, and RIAA artists had any involvement in putting the "bomp" in the "bomp-bah-bomp-bah-bomp" and inspiring procreative urges is clearly putting the blindfold on a bit too tight.
Who're the musicians? Is it all local University musicians/songwriters, something from a Commons/public domain/similar source (archive.org?), or just direct-licensing/ask-the-artists?
I'm at work at the moment, or I'd give the site a look... When I get home, perhaps.
I've heard "VBR bitrates" used to denote the average or target bitrate on VBR/ABR encoding.
That said, with MP3s at least, I don't think you can encode 320kbps VBR, since 320 is the max rate for the format, so 320 average would have to be CBR.
Does this work? I've always thought of it as an interesting idea, especially if you could get some nice-looking upholstery for the furniture to make it look less temporary.
I'm wondering whether the helium would just bleed (or whatever scientific term describes helium's small molecules leaking through the loose plastic molecules) right through the plastic, though.
Although I do agree that one has to take the hobby of crap-collection as a casual thing, not a critical, life-warping obsession, there can be a joy, akin to any other cosmically-useless life endeavor, in getting and displaying new and interesting junk.
I'm a garage-sale fanatic, specializing in the little things that society rarely lets commoners buy on the open market (or, at least, things with that general vibe). I enjoy inspiring "WTF?".
My apartment is pretty much bursting at the seams. I have a collection of downed street signs all over the walls. (Plus one parking meter that I just found in the river... still working!) What that doesn't cover, the various posters (graphic designer = interesting junk mail), maps, and bookshelves do. (I like the vertically-towering weight of a good library... it's like the majesty of a skyscraper. Just be careful what you build them from. I once had a rickety homemade 7-level bookshelf dump about 300 pounds of books on the floor when a mounting broke.)
I've gotten rid of most of the old computers... ancient PC-architecture machines just aren't that sexy. I still have the Mac Classic (standard due reverence) and the Commodore 64 (my first programming box... awwww). I've got two typewriters (one 1930s, one 1970s) and a whole file-drawer of assorted old paper from estate sales, which I can use to make decent prop-forgeries of old paperworks.
I've also got the telephone collection. I'm glad my apartment gets good ringer power, because I've got about 10 live (and a couple I have to hook up) telephones from 1958 to present-era hooked up. It's a glorious cacaphony whenever anyone calls. I love it. (Actually, the whole thing stemmed from my brain not being able to distinguish "telephone" from "alarm clock" when "loud ringing" would wake me up. Now, there's no problem between "alarm clock" and "whole house shrieking".
My car, as well, is well-stocked. I have Michigan (and elsewhere) road maps dating back to 1932 (a modest collection). The front dash has a red roto-bubble light and a yellow rubber duck. The back dash has a yellow flasher and some melting electronics I've been meaning to take out of there. The trunk contains my latest pride-and-joy. I picked up a full Santa Claus outfit (for USD$1! Woot!), and I've worked from there to make my trunk into a mobile costume closet. It's coming along slowly, but costumes and the like are admittedly difficult to come by cheaply. It's mostly hats. Some highlights include a 1940s-60s era (can't really narrow it down) aluminum helmet, a green mosquito-netting hat, an official ref's shirt, an old Army cap with pins, and a very nice plastic Mammoth Caves worker's helmet (which I intend on making more paste-over logos, things like gas/electric company and such) for.
I keep my memories locked up in little boxes of letters and old store reciepts (for some reason, I have a very good recall of events from store reciepts), although most of my "memorables" are digital, packratted away on computer, CD, and offsite.
Not to say that the way you do things is wrong or undesirable... I just wanted to share my Joy of Random Crap.
Well, they get to lock in and control the destiny of both the product and the company. Granted, they could do that with some sort of partnership, but I imagine that if eBay can afford it, they're better off to just get the whole thing. Plus, since they own it, they'd be gaining income off paid services, instead of paying Skype to piggyback.
More than just that, they also get an inroad to Skype users, as well as ownership of a decently well-known trademark, which they can use for whatever purpose they want. This has got to be the biggest reason for buying the company, since I can't see it being that costly if eBay developed their own SIP or similar system. IIRC, Skype doesn't have any integral patents on VOIP.
That said, I also see this as a stranger buy than even some of the stuff Google's rolled up in the last few years, but, hey, maybe there's someone at eBay with a vision in mind.
I'd like the Mozilla (now Seamonkey) search functionality, where you just get a "Search (engine) for (whatever)" when you type in the Location bar. Type, up-arrow, Enter. No muss, no fuss.
Yes, I know I can set up a keyword and get it in two more keystrokes, but why should I have to hack it when an elegant solution existed?
Perhaps suprisingly, that was one of the big things holding me back from going to FF from Moz for quite a while. Now, though, "Extension Uninstaller" not working in Moz 1.8 is a "deal killer" for Mozilla, so it looks like I'll have to deal with Deer Park.
If we're talking about the iPod hardware (not familiar with the feature), I would think that it would probably be simpler to use a compressor than a normalizer. To normalize, you need to know the peak level of the whole track, which means you need to read the whole file in before playing it (or have the info in some database or metadata). With compression, it's working with the dynamic range of only the immediate length of time.
(Assuming I've got the concept of compression/normalization down right. I'm pretty sure I do.)
In that sort of situation, he'd probably be better off assessing the kid for some sort of co-op, independent study, or after-school job at the school (assuming it was something minimally malicious). It would give the student a sense of "ownership" (instead of "pwnz0rship"), and probably put them on the defensive for the school's side. That, and he'd also have an eagle-eye on them, and be giving them some actual experience aligned to their interest, which, depending on the school, can be a rare resource.
Has the MPAA ever successfully gone to court against someone on "circumventing copy protection" regarding region coding? I'd be curious to see their legal angle.
1. Hack firmware to allow anything. 2. Watch Sony (or whomever) keep releasing patches and firmware upgrades. 3. Watch confused consumers wonder why Sony discs won't work in their unpatched or offbrand players. "What's a patch? Don't I just put it in and hit Play? I'm taking this back to the store." 4. Watch all the disc pressers except a few major players refuse to actually require the later firmware. 5. Watch your movies.
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From what I recall of the format, though, at least with these, it's a strange sort of "affirmative DRM", in that the CD portion of the disc isn't corrupt, but you "have to" (if you don't know how to turn off Autorun) load the player/driver, which includes a wedge program that scrambles reads from the CD-ROM if the disc is marked. If I'm not mistaken, it's plain CDDA if you never load the "driver". So, if the security software says "no", then the installer won't run, and you'll just have a plain ol' Multi-mode format CD in the drive.
It's really a shame, though, that CDDA doesn't support multichannel audio out of the box. That means there's a real competitive advantage for a next-gen audio format, which will undoubtedly end up having integrated DRM ability. Until then, there are predominant existing media (with consumer-ubiquitous players) to openly encode most current DRMed content, which means that DRM can't completely take over with the current 2-channel audio format.
That's consolidated radio for ya'.
Centralized playlists mean there is no competition between radio stations any more. Take away even the role of the DJ as more than a programmed talking head, and there's no chance for anything else to get sent down the pipes.
Radio always was, and still is, the way most music gets sent out to most people, it's just that the landscape of radio has changed.
Honey? Where's the dead cat?
It's in the gas tank.
But there's, uh, diesel, in the gas tank.
That's right, there's a whole dead cat in every tank of Dead Cat Diesel.
This is true, but what I'm saying is that, although they can't squeeze blood from you, you have no chance of ever rising much above "turnip" without them starting to squeeze again... of course, if one was mobile, like you said...
Well, as for minors, the parents would be sued.
With the "take all of nothing" stance, that's all good until they start garnishing future wages for the settlement.
Counterpoint (Mann, 1961):
Who put the bomp in the bomp-bah-bomp-bah-bomp?
Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding dong?
Who put the bop in the bop shoo-bop shoo-bop?
Who put the dip in the dip-da-dip-da-dip?
Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand.
He made my baby fall in love with me.
And we can probably infer what happened from there. This is surely not an isolated case.
To deny that the RIAA, and RIAA artists had any involvement in putting the "bomp" in the "bomp-bah-bomp-bah-bomp" and inspiring procreative urges is clearly putting the blindfold on a bit too tight.
Who're the musicians? Is it all local University musicians/songwriters, something from a Commons/public domain/similar source (archive.org?), or just direct-licensing/ask-the-artists?
I'm at work at the moment, or I'd give the site a look... When I get home, perhaps.
Yeah, yeah, that's the one!
(notes it for future discussion)
I've heard "VBR bitrates" used to denote the average or target bitrate on VBR/ABR encoding.
That said, with MP3s at least, I don't think you can encode 320kbps VBR, since 320 is the max rate for the format, so 320 average would have to be CBR.
Does this work? I've always thought of it as an interesting idea, especially if you could get some nice-looking upholstery for the furniture to make it look less temporary.
I'm wondering whether the helium would just bleed (or whatever scientific term describes helium's small molecules leaking through the loose plastic molecules) right through the plastic, though.
No, no, no...
All too often, that just ends up in an 1:1 or worse deposit/withdrawal situation (assuming a low-organic-content Dumpster, of course).
Counterpoint--
Me? I like my crap.
Although I do agree that one has to take the hobby of crap-collection as a casual thing, not a critical, life-warping obsession, there can be a joy, akin to any other cosmically-useless life endeavor, in getting and displaying new and interesting junk.
I'm a garage-sale fanatic, specializing in the little things that society rarely lets commoners buy on the open market (or, at least, things with that general vibe). I enjoy inspiring "WTF?".
My apartment is pretty much bursting at the seams. I have a collection of downed street signs all over the walls. (Plus one parking meter that I just found in the river... still working!) What that doesn't cover, the various posters (graphic designer = interesting junk mail), maps, and bookshelves do. (I like the vertically-towering weight of a good library... it's like the majesty of a skyscraper. Just be careful what you build them from. I once had a rickety homemade 7-level bookshelf dump about 300 pounds of books on the floor when a mounting broke.)
I've gotten rid of most of the old computers... ancient PC-architecture machines just aren't that sexy. I still have the Mac Classic (standard due reverence) and the Commodore 64 (my first programming box... awwww). I've got two typewriters (one 1930s, one 1970s) and a whole file-drawer of assorted old paper from estate sales, which I can use to make decent prop-forgeries of old paperworks.
I've also got the telephone collection. I'm glad my apartment gets good ringer power, because I've got about 10 live (and a couple I have to hook up) telephones from 1958 to present-era hooked up. It's a glorious cacaphony whenever anyone calls. I love it. (Actually, the whole thing stemmed from my brain not being able to distinguish "telephone" from "alarm clock" when "loud ringing" would wake me up. Now, there's no problem between "alarm clock" and "whole house shrieking".
My car, as well, is well-stocked. I have Michigan (and elsewhere) road maps dating back to 1932 (a modest collection). The front dash has a red roto-bubble light and a yellow rubber duck. The back dash has a yellow flasher and some melting electronics I've been meaning to take out of there. The trunk contains my latest pride-and-joy. I picked up a full Santa Claus outfit (for USD$1! Woot!), and I've worked from there to make my trunk into a mobile costume closet. It's coming along slowly, but costumes and the like are admittedly difficult to come by cheaply. It's mostly hats. Some highlights include a 1940s-60s era (can't really narrow it down) aluminum helmet, a green mosquito-netting hat, an official ref's shirt, an old Army cap with pins, and a very nice plastic Mammoth Caves worker's helmet (which I intend on making more paste-over logos, things like gas/electric company and such) for.
I keep my memories locked up in little boxes of letters and old store reciepts (for some reason, I have a very good recall of events from store reciepts), although most of my "memorables" are digital, packratted away on computer, CD, and offsite.
Not to say that the way you do things is wrong or undesirable... I just wanted to share my Joy of Random Crap.
I'd quit if that happened to me.
Which could be a positive thing, depending on how disruptive and destructive this hypothetical "you" was.
Well, they get to lock in and control the destiny of both the product and the company. Granted, they could do that with some sort of partnership, but I imagine that if eBay can afford it, they're better off to just get the whole thing. Plus, since they own it, they'd be gaining income off paid services, instead of paying Skype to piggyback.
More than just that, they also get an inroad to Skype users, as well as ownership of a decently well-known trademark, which they can use for whatever purpose they want. This has got to be the biggest reason for buying the company, since I can't see it being that costly if eBay developed their own SIP or similar system. IIRC, Skype doesn't have any integral patents on VOIP.
That said, I also see this as a stranger buy than even some of the stuff Google's rolled up in the last few years, but, hey, maybe there's someone at eBay with a vision in mind.
most people are browsing at sense of humor -2
No, no, that's the rating on the post. Your browse level is at the top of the page.
And they say offshoring is unwarranted...
Thanks! I forgot about that tweak.
Ooh! Ooh! (hand in the air)
I'd like the Mozilla (now Seamonkey) search functionality, where you just get a "Search (engine) for (whatever)" when you type in the Location bar. Type, up-arrow, Enter. No muss, no fuss.
Yes, I know I can set up a keyword and get it in two more keystrokes, but why should I have to hack it when an elegant solution existed?
Perhaps suprisingly, that was one of the big things holding me back from going to FF from Moz for quite a while. Now, though, "Extension Uninstaller" not working in Moz 1.8 is a "deal killer" for Mozilla, so it looks like I'll have to deal with Deer Park.
It probably was for the two-bit "web designers" someone hired to make the front-end.
(Grumble-grumble two-bit Flash-jockey hacks)
If we're talking about the iPod hardware (not familiar with the feature), I would think that it would probably be simpler to use a compressor than a normalizer. To normalize, you need to know the peak level of the whole track, which means you need to read the whole file in before playing it (or have the info in some database or metadata). With compression, it's working with the dynamic range of only the immediate length of time.
(Assuming I've got the concept of compression/normalization down right. I'm pretty sure I do.)
Just punch out all the holes, and rim the correct answer in colored marker, or suchlike.
Hence, Outlook.
In that sort of situation, he'd probably be better off assessing the kid for some sort of co-op, independent study, or after-school job at the school (assuming it was something minimally malicious). It would give the student a sense of "ownership" (instead of "pwnz0rship"), and probably put them on the defensive for the school's side. That, and he'd also have an eagle-eye on them, and be giving them some actual experience aligned to their interest, which, depending on the school, can be a rare resource.
Has the MPAA ever successfully gone to court against someone on "circumventing copy protection" regarding region coding? I'd be curious to see their legal angle.
Or, another somewhat likely solution:
1. Hack firmware to allow anything.
2. Watch Sony (or whomever) keep releasing patches and firmware upgrades.
3. Watch confused consumers wonder why Sony discs won't work in their unpatched or offbrand players. "What's a patch? Don't I just put it in and hit Play? I'm taking this back to the store."
4. Watch all the disc pressers except a few major players refuse to actually require the later firmware.
5. Watch your movies.