It is my understanding that any digital consumer audio equipment (in the US) must follow the rules laid out if the Digital Copyright Act or whatever.
Devices must: (1) only use special media that is heavily taxed. [see the so-called 'audio grade' blank CDRs) (2) and implements serialized copy protection to disallow copies to be made from copies. (3) "computer Peripherals" are exempt from this.
An example is Philips consumer audio CDR recorder. It will not record on 89 cent CDRs but instead requires 'audio grade' CDRs costing several dollars each and which support the serial copying system.
If this MP3 unit has to do this it will not be worth the added cost of operation.
In the first place it was kind of hard to figure out what he was trying to say. Did he have a point to make? There was some junk about the net becoming more important at the start, and techies getting increased power (which is not really true, imho) but then he just started- well- rambling. The last 5 paragraphs were painful.
Someone earlier mentioned something to the extent that he was spoiled on howto's and O'reily prose. Well, I think good writing should be a lot like that- something easy to read. I don't mean trite or illeterate, I mean Earnest Hemingway or O'Henry prose. When I read an essay or novel by a good and relatively contemporary (otherwise changes in language usage interfere) author there is no effort involved- I don't have to try and unravel convoluted sentances and paragraphs.
One time I was talking to someone and told them to go into the `root directory' meaning/root. Heh they kept trying to go to / and couldnt figure why it wasnt there. So I was like no no.. cd/root So they kept typing CD /
Folks all over the net have been fantasizing about such a device, and the CD^3 is hardly a novel idea with that in mind. That said, who are they going to sell the idea to? The idea is already WELL KNOWN. It is just a matter of someone getting one of these things to market.
The device itself is not all that complicated. I dare say that the Clarion AutoPC, with nothing more than a software upgrade, would qualify as such a device for your car (with a CD-R changer in the trunk, no less, to store your full collection).
Apple is more of a closed platform than Microsoft. The OS only runs on Apples, Apple only wants it on apples, Apple doesn't even let people like the Be developers get info about the G3 so they can make BeOs for it.
Apple is like if microsoft and intel were the same company, and no one else could make pcs.
The only difference is that apple lost, they lost big, they are now the underdog. They are a monopoly and would be THE monopoly if they could be. This is demonstrated with quicktime, they get developers to make a *.mov file that only the new quicktime can decompress. I get so tired of hitting "later" over and over again. I'm so glad that I finally found an mpg of the new trailer so I could show it wherever without having to have stupid quicktime.
*Damn*, I hate saying that, it's just so incredibly *lame*!
But yes, I agree totally. The point is
1). Stick with GPL'd code whenever possible.
2). Only use code which is licensed under an arrangement other that the GPL if you have an overwhelming reason to do so ( and preferably only if you have a planned emergency exit plan as well ). In short - read the fine print and pay a lawyer to check it. It will save you a lot of grief.
These days, most programmers doen't see much that's really bad about IBM and feel that they should be given the benifet of the doubt.
Sorry, but I remember the days ( late 80's ) when IBM meant IncontinentBowelMovement ( and a whole host of other insulting, derogetory terms ).
Right now, IBM is acting as the great crusader of open source ( BWHAHAHA! ). Don't believe a word of it.
"The skies of the digital world grow grayer day by day.
In that world, we are real birds fluttering about in digital cages.
The digital world is a hall of mirrors,
We live on the edge of a digital blade, and the blade cuts both ways. "
...Apart from an overuse of metaphor... And what seems to be a destinct desire to be unclear... He has some intersting ideas.... Unfortunately he obscured the synthesis of his disjoint points with an overbearing literary style. A philosphy major at some point, no doubt.
The greatest thing about the new customizable/. is that we can keep him or lose him, and its's our choice.
Oh I want such a player. Let's say (conservative estimate) 10 normal cd's can be placed on one cd-r, than we have 600 minutes of listening pleasure. Great stuff for my daily train-voyage:)
and the reson it is alive, is that we keep it alive. There isn't any big marketing infrastructure, no profit margin, it's just the love people have for their GOOD operating system. (man that sounded cheezy)
The only forseeable way (in my humble opinion) Linux is ever going to die, is if all the hackers suddenly say "Eh... this sucks." and go work on something else.
That seems fairly ridiculous at this point. At least that's my humble (linux user for 2 weeks now WOO HOO!!) opinion.:-)
"My brain suffers from chronic IRQ conflicts." Jer
i think nokia has better phones but mot definitely has better processors
mot startac sux like hell it always fails to read the card nokias have games
Recommended URL on Amiga kernel?
on
Amiga Comeback?
·
· Score: 1
Posted by KenM:
It was based on Tripos (ever hear of that?) and written in BCPL. It did take a *little* longer than 4 weeks though, but was still done in an amazingly short time. But the first release was pretty rough and used to crash left right & center unfortunately giving the Amiga a reputation of being a crash-box. The 1.1 release a few weeks later was quite stable...
But full preemptive multitasking in 512K, wow. And I remember being blown away when I saw my first digitized photo in 4096 colors on an Amiga... remember, this was the days of XTclones with 16 color CGA. The AT and 64 color EGA were still on the horizon.
The Amiga would handle 8MB of RAM at a time when Bill Gates was saying "no one will ever need more than 640K":)
To *you* an Amiga has only antique & novelty value; to those who kept their Amigas updated & capable and use them to do their daily computing tasks, they have as much value, maybe more than your personal workstation has for you.
If you only invest for financial gain,and your only measure of value is monetary, you must be one dimensional indeed...
You make the invalid assumption that in the near future we will experience an all around 10x boost in storage and data capacity. (I get this from the fact that a 40 meg cd audio track can probably be compressed into about 4 megs of mp3. maybe I'm a little off)
If this were the case, and the desire for more music to be stored locally and immediatly accessibly did not increase at all, then you might be right, because then people could use the higher fidelity standard. But I don't think such increases are going to occur in the immediate future, and even if they do, who says that given the choice between more mp3s and fewer slightly higher quality audio files I would choose the latter? I know people who a few years ago were happy with 500 megs of mp3s, and now have about 10 gigs. Their storage capacity grew 20-fold and yet they didn't start storing cd audio files instead of mp3s. They just got more mp3s.
And what about RNWK? Think they'll be superfluous soon? not a chance. In the first place, as you so rightly pointed out, there will be a need for video compression for a while. In the second place, even if internet data transfer speeds got an all around boost by 10, realtime broadcasts of audio would still be impossible since the higher data transfer rate would almost invariably lead to more people using real audio broadcasts.
And you were referring to the Nyquist sampling theorem, in case you were wondering. But you don't seem like an educated person, so you probably don't care.
Myself, I'm somewhat less interested in the performance of Freeamp/Winamp on "lower end" machinery than I am with, say, performace of Linux MP3 decoders/players on low-end machinery. Then again, I tend to avoid Win95 stuff on general principle.:)
Anyhoos...to be honest, I've never had the chance to muck about with playing MP3s on a Linux box. I do know that DOSamp (which is possibly the fastest DOS MP3 player in existance) will play most MP3s without skipping as long as one downmixes and downsamples 44.1KHz stereo ones (so that they play at 22KHz mono) on a 486 DX2/50. Unfortunately, DOSamp doesn't play those odd little "mp2 1/2" MP3s (MPEG-2 level 3).
I have *heard* that Cubic Player is somewhat comparable, but docs there recommend at least a DX4/100...of note, though, is the fact that Cubic Player is now open source and a Linux port is reportedly underway [yay].
ASCII came in with Teletypes, and was a big improvement over Baudot code that ran on Telex machines.
(I barely remember Baudot and may not be spelling right. No relation to Bridgette I think... But I digress.)
There was only upper case and a few punctuation marks. I have this funny feeling we only had 5 bits to work with.
It does surprise me that the HTML entity set hasn't been expanded to include some basic typographic symbols: N- and Mm-dashes; typo quotes and apostrophes, bullets, check marks, check boxes; integrals and sigmas and deltas.
Not to mention smiley faces.
I guess we need a new ISO-8859 kinda thingie. How about ISO-Font.2000?
All the RMS bashers out there, grow up! Stop your automatic responses whenever RMS is mentioned! Don't you know that someone else, not RMS, wrote the article this time?
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by PasswdIs ScoreOne:
It is my understanding that any digital consumer audio equipment (in the US) must follow the rules laid out if the Digital Copyright Act or whatever.
Devices must:
(1) only use special media that is heavily taxed. [see the so-called 'audio grade' blank CDRs)
(2) and implements serialized copy protection to disallow copies to be made from copies.
(3) "computer Peripherals" are exempt from this.
An example is Philips consumer audio CDR recorder. It will not record on 89 cent CDRs but instead requires 'audio grade' CDRs costing several dollars each and which support the serial copying system.
If this MP3 unit has to do this it will not be worth the added cost of operation.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
In the first place it was kind of hard to figure out what he was trying to say. Did he have a point to make? There was some junk about the net becoming more important at the start, and techies getting increased power (which is not really true, imho) but then he just started- well- rambling. The last 5 paragraphs were painful.
Someone earlier mentioned something to the extent that he was spoiled on howto's and O'reily prose. Well, I think good writing should be a lot like that- something easy to read. I don't mean trite or illeterate, I mean Earnest Hemingway or O'Henry prose. When I read an essay or novel by a good and relatively contemporary (otherwise changes in language usage interfere) author there is no effort involved- I don't have to try and unravel convoluted sentances and paragraphs.
this was not the case here
Posted by Akira410:
/root. /root
Rofl, thats a pretty cool idea. =)
**frantically renames all of his directories**
One time I was talking to someone and told them to go into the `root directory' meaning
Heh they kept trying to go to / and couldnt figure why it wasnt there. So I was like no no.. cd
So they kept typing CD /
Anyways =)
EHHE
Rob
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
p ub_key_default.asp
Here's the URL http://www.nai.com/products/security/public_keys/
But I have to wonder how you managed to install/use PGP without reading the instructions enough to know about the site.
Posted by bSMfh (bastard ScoutMaster fro:
/. filters
I say sign him up!
If you don't like it,turn on your internal or
your
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
Folks all over the net have been fantasizing about such a device, and the CD^3 is hardly a novel idea with that in mind. That said, who are they going to sell the idea to? The idea is already WELL KNOWN. It is just a matter of someone getting one of these things to market.
The device itself is not all that complicated. I dare say that the Clarion AutoPC, with nothing more than a software upgrade, would qualify as such a device for your car (with a CD-R changer in the trunk, no less, to store your full collection).
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Copyright 1998 Chris Hedemark.
Hey Chris, it's not 1998, it's 1999.
If you don't know that how good can your claim of copyright be?
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
I went to my preferences page and found I had no option to kill him off. Please allow me to do this. I HATE pseudo-intellectual "techno"-journalists.
Posted by Kromslyth:
Apple is more of a closed platform than
Microsoft. The OS only runs on Apples, Apple
only wants it on apples, Apple doesn't even let
people like the Be developers get info about
the G3 so they can make BeOs for it.
Apple is like if microsoft and intel were the
same company, and no one else could make pcs.
The only difference is that apple lost, they
lost big, they are now the underdog. They
are a monopoly and would be THE monopoly if
they could be. This is demonstrated with quicktime, they get developers to make
a *.mov file that only the new quicktime can
decompress. I get so tired of hitting "later"
over and over again. I'm so glad that I finally
found an mpg of the new trailer so I could show
it wherever without having to have stupid
quicktime.
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
:-)
First of all, it's spelled "MPEG" and second of all, it is not MPEG III but MPEG I, Layer 3.
If they don't know that, how good can this unit be?
I still want one, though.
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
If more people would actually read the article before posting, there would be less of this BS in here. Clearly, there is an ETA on their web site.
Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
*Damn*, I hate saying that, it's just so incredibly *lame*!
But yes, I agree totally. The point is
1). Stick with GPL'd code whenever possible.
2). Only use code which is licensed under an arrangement other that the GPL if you have an overwhelming reason to do so ( and preferably only if you have a planned emergency exit plan as well ). In short - read the fine print and pay a lawyer to check it. It will save you a lot of grief.
These days, most programmers doen't see much that's really bad about IBM and feel that they should be given the benifet of the doubt.
Sorry, but I remember the days ( late 80's ) when IBM meant IncontinentBowelMovement ( and a whole host of other insulting, derogetory terms ).
Right now, IBM is acting as the great crusader of open source ( BWHAHAHA! ). Don't believe a word of it.
Just 39 years of extreme cynisism gang.
Posted by JoeyRamone:
:). By their records.....
Thank god the ramones are slobs themselfs
Posted by someone stole my nick:
/. is that we can keep him or lose him, and its's our choice.
"The skies of the digital world grow grayer day by day.
In that world, we are real birds fluttering about in digital cages.
The digital world is a hall of mirrors,
We live on the edge of a digital blade, and the blade cuts both ways. "
...Apart from an overuse of metaphor... And what seems to be a destinct desire to be unclear... He has some intersting ideas.... Unfortunately he obscured the synthesis of his disjoint points with an overbearing literary style. A philosphy major at some point, no doubt.
The greatest thing about the new customizable
Posted by JoeyRamone:
:)
:)
Oh I want such a player. Let's say (conservative estimate) 10 normal cd's can be placed on one cd-r, than we have 600 minutes of listening pleasure. Great stuff for my daily train-voyage
Gimme one
Posted by JerTheNerd:
:-)
and the reson it is alive, is that we keep it alive. There isn't any big marketing infrastructure, no profit margin, it's just the love people have for their GOOD operating system. (man that sounded cheezy)
The only forseeable way (in my humble opinion) Linux is ever going to die, is if all the hackers suddenly say "Eh... this sucks." and go work on something else.
That seems fairly ridiculous at this point. At least that's my humble (linux user for 2 weeks now WOO HOO!!) opinion.
"My brain suffers from chronic IRQ conflicts."
Jer
Posted by GimmeZeroZero:
I don't think there is much point in comparing
assembly to C or any other HLL.
x86 does really suck when compared to 680x0.
Posted by Nr9:
actually apple will obtain chips from both, ibm's own divisions aren't big enough to giv them money
Posted by Nr9:
they never really completely split
i think nokia has better phones but mot definitely has better processors
mot startac sux like hell it always fails to read the card nokias have games
Posted by KenM:
:)
It was based on Tripos (ever hear of that?) and written in BCPL. It did take a *little* longer than 4 weeks though, but was still done in an amazingly short time. But the first release was pretty rough and used to crash left right & center unfortunately giving the Amiga a reputation of being a crash-box. The 1.1 release a few weeks later was quite stable...
But full preemptive multitasking in 512K, wow. And I remember being blown away when I saw my first digitized photo in 4096 colors on an Amiga... remember, this was the days of XTclones with 16 color CGA. The AT and 64 color EGA were still on the horizon.
The Amiga would handle 8MB of RAM at a time when Bill Gates was saying "no one will ever need more than 640K"
Posted by KenM:
The value of anything is a subjective thing...
To *you* an Amiga has only antique & novelty value; to those who kept their Amigas updated & capable and use them to do their daily computing tasks, they have as much value, maybe more than your personal workstation has for you.
If you only invest for financial gain,and your only measure of value is monetary, you must be one dimensional indeed...
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
You make the invalid assumption that in the near future we will experience an all around 10x boost in storage and data capacity. (I get this from the fact that a 40 meg cd audio track can probably be compressed into about 4 megs of mp3. maybe I'm a little off)
If this were the case, and the desire for more music to be stored locally and immediatly accessibly did not increase at all, then you might be right, because then people could use the higher fidelity standard. But I don't think such increases are going to occur in the immediate future, and even if they do, who says that given the choice between more mp3s and fewer slightly higher quality audio files I would choose the latter? I know people who a few years ago were happy with 500 megs of mp3s, and now have about 10 gigs. Their storage capacity grew 20-fold and yet they didn't start storing cd audio files instead of mp3s. They just got more mp3s.
And what about RNWK? Think they'll be superfluous soon? not a chance. In the first place, as you so rightly pointed out, there will be a need for video compression for a while. In the second place, even if internet data transfer speeds got an all around boost by 10, realtime broadcasts of audio would still be impossible since the higher data transfer rate would almost invariably lead to more people using real audio broadcasts.
And you were referring to the Nyquist sampling theorem, in case you were wondering. But you don't seem like an educated person, so you probably don't care.
Myself, I'm somewhat less interested in the performance of Freeamp/Winamp on "lower end" machinery than I am with, say, performace of Linux MP3 decoders/players on low-end machinery. Then again, I tend to avoid Win95 stuff on general principle. :)
Anyhoos...to be honest, I've never had the chance to muck about with playing MP3s on a Linux box. I do know that DOSamp (which is possibly the fastest DOS MP3 player in existance) will play most MP3s without skipping as long as one downmixes and downsamples 44.1KHz stereo ones (so that they play at 22KHz mono) on a 486 DX2/50. Unfortunately, DOSamp doesn't play those odd little "mp2 1/2" MP3s (MPEG-2 level 3).
I have *heard* that Cubic Player is somewhat comparable, but docs there recommend at least a DX4/100...of note, though, is the fact that Cubic Player is now open source and a Linux port is reportedly underway [yay].
Posted by iJohn:
ASCII came in with Teletypes, and was a big improvement over Baudot code that ran on Telex machines.
(I barely remember Baudot and may not be spelling right. No relation to Bridgette I think... But I digress.)
There was only upper case and a few punctuation marks. I have this funny feeling we only had 5 bits to work with.
It does surprise me that the HTML entity set hasn't been expanded to include some basic typographic symbols: N- and Mm-dashes; typo quotes and apostrophes, bullets, check marks, check boxes; integrals and sigmas and deltas.
Not to mention smiley faces.
I guess we need a new ISO-8859 kinda thingie. How about ISO-Font.2000?
Posted by "Courageous Coward":
All the RMS bashers out there, grow up! Stop your automatic responses whenever RMS is mentioned! Don't you know that someone else, not RMS, wrote the article this time?