Here's a clue. It's one of the secrets that the grown-ups don't tell you until you get pretty old. Maybe even in your late 20's or 30's: You're not 'rebelling' by listening to music with naughty words. You're just being the tuFF little reBel that everybody is when they're young.
'The corporations' are us. Those 'older' people on campus who tell you what is cool? (i.e. Stallman, Raymond, etc.) They're the backwash, the dregs. Spend four or six years in college, then by god, get the heck out before you're trapped.
The ISPs try to keep people within their sites because it's cheaper; they don't have to provide gateway bandwidth to the 'net as a whole. It's foolish to say it's only to 'maximize ad revenues.' That's only part of the picture.
Well, Transmeta obviously has positioned themselves as a Microserf company (why else would the company that employs a key Linux developer focus a code-morphing product almost solely on the x86 instruction set? Linux can be ported to ANY architecture, after all...). Therefore they will stay close to Microsoft.
Wasn't the original intent of Sun's Java to be built into chips they were going to sell to the embedded market??
"Is everybody copying Apple's theft of the X Consortium's name?"
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft 'stole' X first. I saw a bunch of propaganda from Microsoft when they introduced 'Active X' which threw an 'X' logo all over the place, and that was long before Apple adopted the 'X' logo for the tenth version of the Macintosh Operating System.
Judging by the fact that when HAL had to be shut down, Dave disconnected a series of modules, and HAL got more primitive as the modules were disconnected, I would say that HAL was a massively parallel system, hence there was no single clock frequency.
Who do you mean when you say 'content providers'??
I can get out my clarinet and make music.
You can sit down at a piano and play a tune.
Obviously, music reproduction technology is different from 'providing content.' If you begin to rely on someone else to make your music for you, and simply want to lie back on that couch and enjoy it, you deserve to have your 'music' taken away at the whim of the people who actually made the music.
It's really that simple. Go play your guitar, and stop passively listening.
It seems amazing to me, but there's still a product out there called Total Recorder that can be used to grab the audio stream on a Windows box and capture it to a WAV file. It even works on Windows 2000, which one would think Microsoft would have locked down the media streams within by now.
Wrong. You listed a whole bunch of 'musical recording reproduction equpiment'. You didn't mention a guitar, a piano, a flute or saxophone, or even that you whistle into a microphone.
None of that stuff you listed can actually make music. Except maybe if we sample the noises that some of that gear makes and call it 'Industrial' music.
Music is made by people. All you're talking about (and all most of you folks seem to dwell on) is reproductions of music somebody else made.
Really, it's profoundly sad. All this tech and all we can do is trade around the same dreck music made by 1% of us, and it's a 1% controlled by big corporations.
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It's a trademark.
Get a clue, dude.
Here's a clue. It's one of the secrets that the grown-ups don't tell you until you get pretty old. Maybe even in your late 20's or 30's: You're not 'rebelling' by listening to music with naughty words. You're just being the tuFF little reBel that everybody is when they're young.
'The corporations' are us. Those 'older' people on campus who tell you what is cool? (i.e. Stallman, Raymond, etc.) They're the backwash, the dregs. Spend four or six years in college, then by god, get the heck out before you're trapped.
The ISPs try to keep people within their sites because it's cheaper; they don't have to provide gateway bandwidth to the 'net as a whole. It's foolish to say it's only to 'maximize ad revenues.' That's only part of the picture.
There! You said it! And blood didn't shoot out of your ears! A scaled down version of X!!
Well, Transmeta obviously has positioned themselves as a Microserf company (why else would the company that employs a key Linux developer focus a code-morphing product almost solely on the x86 instruction set? Linux can be ported to ANY architecture, after all...). Therefore they will stay close to Microsoft.
Wasn't the original intent of Sun's Java to be built into chips they were going to sell to the embedded market??
Katz! We expected better of you than this!!!
I will reprhase your question:
"Is everybody copying Apple's theft of the X Consortium's name?"
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft 'stole' X first. I saw a bunch of propaganda from Microsoft when they introduced 'Active X' which threw an 'X' logo all over the place, and that was long before Apple adopted the 'X' logo for the tenth version of the Macintosh Operating System.
Judging by the fact that when HAL had to be shut down, Dave disconnected a series of modules, and HAL got more primitive as the modules were disconnected, I would say that HAL was a massively parallel system, hence there was no single clock frequency.
You can GPL it, but are you prepared to incorporate the patches that people submit in the next version?
If not, why would you GPL it?
Who do you mean when you say 'content providers'?? I can get out my clarinet and make music. You can sit down at a piano and play a tune. Obviously, music reproduction technology is different from 'providing content.' If you begin to rely on someone else to make your music for you, and simply want to lie back on that couch and enjoy it, you deserve to have your 'music' taken away at the whim of the people who actually made the music. It's really that simple. Go play your guitar, and stop passively listening.
It seems amazing to me, but there's still a product out there called Total Recorder that can be used to grab the audio stream on a Windows box and capture it to a WAV file. It even works on Windows 2000, which one would think Microsoft would have locked down the media streams within by now.
Wrong. You listed a whole bunch of 'musical recording reproduction equpiment'. You didn't mention a guitar, a piano, a flute or saxophone, or even that you whistle into a microphone.
None of that stuff you listed can actually make music. Except maybe if we sample the noises that some of that gear makes and call it 'Industrial' music.
Music is made by people. All you're talking about (and all most of you folks seem to dwell on) is reproductions of music somebody else made.
Really, it's profoundly sad. All this tech and all we can do is trade around the same dreck music made by 1% of us, and it's a 1% controlled by big corporations.
It's shocking, yes it's actually shocking! You've made a breakthrough discovery!
Music is made by people, with musical instruments.
It doesn't magically spring out of machines with shiny disks in them that spin.
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For those of you still unenlightened, the point is: recorded reproductions of music are not 'music' per se.