Penn and Teller are magicians/comedians. I think they have their own TV show now ( here ), but in general they tour and go on talk shows and do magic tricks. On some network morning show, they did a card trick in which one of them opened his eyes and revealed solid contacts that had printed on them the number and suit of the card that the host had "randomly" picked.
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Well, the website still doesn't say anything about it, but the ftp link just has a case-sensitive typo in it. Here's the real link.
There's some of it he couldn't control (like the local news playing every trailer), but certainly he was in control of his own interviews and the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC deal. The Fox studio is only distributing the movie in a deal that Lucas pretty much dictated to them. Any marketing related hyped is most definitely his doing. Now the news articles, etc. is simply the media trying to cash in, but who can blame them? This is the biggest pop-culture event that could be conceived of barring John Lennon's resurrection and a Beatles' world tour. Magazines are going to make it their cover story. Newsweek and the Village Voice ironically put Star Wars on their cover, only then to scold the movie for hyping itself too much. I don't know if that's more or less responsible journalism. I'm going to see it Wednesday at 12:01 AM, but I won't be making any trips to Taco Bell to get a Yoda toy. You can have it both ways.
I started out encoding at 128 when I didn't really know anything about mp3, but now that I've encoded my whole collection, I've noticed that certain songs have a "watery" sound at 128. This also has to do with the encoder you use, of course. I read somewhere that anything based on Fraunhofer tends to have that watery sound sometimes. I now use BladeEnc for Linux at either 160 or 192.
VBR is probably the best choice, except that some mp3 players can't friggin' fast-forward or rewind VBR files (though I presume this will be fixed soon, since WinAmp has fixed it). VBR on x11amp now is almost like having an 8 track. Not that I fast forward my songs all the time, it's just that a digital format shouldn't be so stupidly limiting.
The point is that if you're going to be paying for downloadable music, it should be at least _offered_ at 256. You're not paying less money for a lower quality song, but for the lack of distribution costs. Unfortunately, I don't see any of the downloadable mp3 sellers offering higher quality. You can usually better quality from ftp sites, heh.
This Real Jukebox is pretty pointless at this point in time. Anyone who can't manage encoding and making playlists with the free programs that already exist probably doesn't have a huge enough hard drive to hold their whole CD collection (and the "exclusive" Real downloadable music) as they seem to insist this program is for. I have my whole collection on 13 (and growing) CD-Rs, but CD burners are hardly a consumer product yet.
The real problem with "downloadable" music is that the vendors always encode at 128, which anyone with good ears can tell sounds like crap sometimes. I like going to the CD store, I like having CD case and cover, but I also like having 13 CDs instead of 100. I paid for one downloaded album and I don't think I'll do it again unless the quality gets better.
To the average person, it seems like those 100 carousel CD players is ten times better than having mp3s.
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Penn and Teller are magicians/comedians. I think they have their own TV show now ( here ), but in general they tour and go on talk shows and do magic tricks. On some network morning show, they did a card trick in which one of them opened his eyes and revealed solid contacts that had printed on them the number and suit of the card that the host had "randomly" picked.
Well, the website still doesn't say anything about it, but the ftp link just has a case-sensitive typo in it. Here's the real link.
The Mozilla website says nothing about Milestone 6 and the ftp directory linked here doesn't exist.
There's some of it he couldn't control (like the local news playing every trailer), but certainly he was in control of his own interviews and the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC deal. The Fox studio is only distributing the movie in a deal that Lucas pretty much dictated to them. Any marketing related hyped is most definitely his doing. Now the news articles, etc. is simply the media trying to cash in, but who can blame them? This is the biggest pop-culture event that could be conceived of barring John Lennon's resurrection and a Beatles' world tour. Magazines are going to make it their cover story. Newsweek and the Village Voice ironically put Star Wars on their cover, only then to scold the movie for hyping itself too much. I don't know if that's more or less responsible journalism. I'm going to see it Wednesday at 12:01 AM, but I won't be making any trips to Taco Bell to get a Yoda toy. You can have it both ways.
I started out encoding at 128 when I didn't really know anything about mp3, but now that I've encoded my whole collection, I've noticed that certain songs have a "watery" sound at 128. This also has to do with the encoder you use, of course. I read somewhere that anything based on Fraunhofer tends to have that watery sound sometimes. I now use BladeEnc for Linux at either 160 or 192.
VBR is probably the best choice, except that some mp3 players can't friggin' fast-forward or rewind VBR files (though I presume this will be fixed soon, since WinAmp has fixed it). VBR on x11amp now is almost like having an 8 track. Not that I fast forward my songs all the time, it's just that a digital format shouldn't be so stupidly limiting.
The point is that if you're going to be paying for downloadable music, it should be at least _offered_ at 256. You're not paying less money for a lower quality song, but for the lack of distribution costs. Unfortunately, I don't see any of the downloadable mp3 sellers offering higher quality. You can usually better quality from ftp sites, heh.
This Real Jukebox is pretty pointless at this point in time. Anyone who can't manage encoding and making playlists with the free programs that already exist probably doesn't have a huge enough hard drive to hold their whole CD collection (and the "exclusive" Real downloadable music) as they seem to insist this program is for. I have my whole collection on 13 (and growing) CD-Rs, but CD burners are hardly a consumer product yet.
The real problem with "downloadable" music is that the vendors always encode at 128, which anyone with good ears can tell sounds like crap sometimes. I like going to the CD store, I like having CD case and cover, but I also like having 13 CDs instead of 100. I paid for one downloaded album and I don't think I'll do it again unless the quality gets better.
To the average person, it seems like those 100 carousel CD players is ten times better than having mp3s.