Under very specific circumstances. My example is this:
A new band goes to record their first record in the local "good" studio for 100 bucks an hour. Because of money and time constraints ( a third of your time, for example, should be spent just tuning and getting drums to sound good ) they record hastily and get mediocre basic tracks.
They then attempt to "fix" during the mixdown proccess. Thats when the newbees see the signal proccessing gear. EQ, Digital Delay/Reverb etc. There is a tendancy among first timers to annoyingly over use these products leading to the "Stadium drum effect" and the "vocals from afar" i.e. buried in poorly chosen delay and reverb.
Then, even worse, when it still sounds like shit they even add more during the mastering proccess.
Here is the kicker:
When you take one of these over proccessed tunes and convert it to mp3 almost all of that reverb, echo gets lost during the compression and IT CAN ACTUALLY SOUND BETTER!
mp3.com called our band up and asked to use one of our songs ( Temple Dogs ) for a TV commercial for MPMan. This is a portable mp3 player that competes with the Rio. Apparently it is being used on the QVC network.
Years of playing bass and I make it to the Home Shopping Network! Oh well.
However, when our singer asked about IPO the answer was: "Don't Go There, change the coversation."
I suppose any information that could be leaked would be a securities violation.
In any case, even though mp3.com lost money last quarter I bet that the stock will go up very fast. You don't suppose the traditional record companies would want to buy a piece of the pie in case they can't shut them down? Just the fact that the traditional companies would buy stock, Microsoft with all their money would probably hedge their bets too. All that purchacing would make mp3.com stock an excellent short term investment. Maybe not as insane as amazon.com but I bet pretty damn close.
After submitting our band's tunes to mp3.com we have been called twice by industry folks:
1: invited to have a song of ours on a new IDG book to be titled: An Idiots Guide to Music on the Internet. This included a half page write up URL and picture. Of course my bandleader said no. However that was before he understood what the whole phenomena was.
2: mp3.com's music director called us and asked for permission to use a song during a MP-Man commercial. Bandleader said yes to this one. A national commercial this one.
Separation for GCC in view The free GNU C/C++ compiler GCC got a successor. The development of the compiler/translator had sluggishly run already for some time. GNU boss Richard Stallman decided now that egcs in the future the official compiler of the GNU project will be. Its developers try to integrate different advancements of the GCC again into a product.
In addition among other things FORTRAN-FRONT-ENDS g77 belongs and particularly on Pentium operations optimized pgcc. closer information gives it with http://egcs.cygnus.com/. (ck/iX)
while(not_working) { if ( reboot() == TRUE ) { printf("What an NT genius\!\n"); break; else if ( re-install.os() == TRUE ) then { for (a=1,a++,a5) ( re_install_servicepack[a] ) ; } else break; backup_from_tape(); printf("What an NT genius\!\n"); break; } else printf("Upgrade to Win2000"); break; )
Microsoft may even come up with a perfectly good deal to settle out of court, however I would rather see them lose in court and end up with less than let them wiggle out of trouble again. I can see the quotes now:
"We decided to settle out of court even though we 'knew' we were right and justly had the freedom to innovate, we just decided this would be better for OUR customers... blah blah blah blah.....etc."
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Under very specific circumstances. My example is this:
A new band goes to record their first record in the local "good" studio for 100 bucks an hour. Because of money and time constraints ( a third of your time, for example, should be spent just tuning and getting drums to sound good ) they record hastily and get mediocre basic tracks.
They then attempt to "fix" during the mixdown proccess. Thats when the newbees see the signal proccessing gear. EQ, Digital Delay/Reverb etc. There is a tendancy among first timers to annoyingly over use these products leading to the "Stadium drum effect" and the "vocals from afar" i.e. buried in poorly chosen delay and reverb.
Then, even worse, when it still sounds like shit they even add more during the mastering proccess.
Here is the kicker:
When you take one of these over proccessed tunes and convert it to mp3 almost all of that reverb, echo gets lost during the compression and IT CAN ACTUALLY SOUND BETTER!
Ken
At least mp3's don't have broken or "Cracked" jewel cases.
As far as "CD Quality Sound" that is a crock.
However, as I can stream mp3's, I like them quite a bit. ( gotta love that corporate connection ).
Ken
That the average IQ of the Linux community is at least 50 points higher than the average IQ of the windows community.
Creativity is very important, drone.
Ken
A good cracker could "Stuff the ballot" box with really crappy moves. Perhaps we could even lose in 5 moves!
Then the whole windows community would really look like crap.
Ken
I think his head would explode.
Ken
For Kasparov that is....
Since only windows users can play he won't have to face the Linux community.
Ken
In all the Star Trek spin-offs, i.e. Deep Space Nine, New Generation, Voyager
His humorous country doctor, very un-military ways were never replaced.
Data and Richer together almost made a Spock. But no one, or combination of actors made the good doctor.
Ken Broadfoot
It has been working on the same block for 197 hours. It is a P90 with 48M Ram and service pack 4.
However my dual pentium 400 with 320M ram running 2.2.5 has crunched out about 50 of them in the same time.
Even my poor P60 with 24 megs of ram is can do one in about a day and a half fast. That is running 2.2.9.
Ken Broadfoot
Ken
mp3.com called our band up and asked to use one of our songs ( Temple Dogs ) for a TV commercial for MPMan. This is a portable mp3 player that competes with the Rio. Apparently it is being used on the QVC network.
Years of playing bass and I make it to the Home Shopping Network! Oh well.
However, when our singer asked about IPO the answer was: "Don't Go There, change the coversation."
I suppose any information that could be leaked would be a securities violation.
In any case, even though mp3.com lost money last quarter I bet that the stock will go up very fast. You don't suppose the traditional record companies would want to buy a piece of the pie in case they can't shut them down? Just the fact that the traditional companies would buy stock, Microsoft with all their money would probably hedge their bets too. All that purchacing would make mp3.com stock an excellent short term investment. Maybe not as insane as amazon.com but I bet pretty damn close.
Ken Broadfoot
Looks like I will be buying my first game for years!
I loved Railroad Tycoon!
Ken Broadfoot
After submitting our band's tunes to mp3.com we have been called twice by industry folks:
1: invited to have a song of ours on a new IDG book to be titled: An Idiots Guide to Music on the Internet. This included a half page write up URL and picture. Of course my bandleader said no. However that was before he understood what the whole phenomena was.
2: mp3.com's music director called us and asked for permission to use a song during a MP-Man commercial. Bandleader said yes to this one. A national commercial this one.
I like it...
Ken Broadfoot
http://www.mp3.com/robertrude
Sorry for the mix up.
( Like we really care that much )
Ken Broadfoot
You can think of SP4 as NT4.0.1341
( Or maybe NT4.1.1341 more accurate if you get my drift. )
Ken Broadfoot
I bet Microsoft would love to by up a controlling interest in Redhat.
It would be like Homer Simpsons' internet company that Billy bought and destroyed.
Ken Broadfoot
Sure, I am not. Sprechen sie Yoda?
Eh, Bumbled for Babel Fish sure.
English:
/. (ck/iX)
Separation for GCC in view The free GNU C/C++ compiler GCC got a successor. The development of the compiler/translator had sluggishly run already for some time. GNU boss Richard Stallman decided now that egcs in the future the official compiler of the GNU project will be. Its developers try to integrate different advancements of the GCC again into a product.
In addition among other things FORTRAN-FRONT-ENDS g77 belongs and particularly on Pentium operations optimized pgcc. closer information gives it with
http://egcs.cygnus.com
pawn your cat?
Cool!
while(not_working) {
if ( reboot() == TRUE ) {
printf("What an NT genius\!\n");
break;
else if ( re-install.os() == TRUE ) then {
for (a=1,a++,a5)
( re_install_servicepack[a] ) ;
}
else break;
backup_from_tape();
printf("What an NT genius\!\n");
break;
}
else printf("Upgrade to Win2000");
break;
)
Amen!
However not recently. His very best part ever was in "The River's Edge".
Crispin Glover was great in that too.
Ken
Guess I'm safe from ICBM's!
:-)
I really hope they do a good job on 5.0. I DO NOT wan't to use Explorer ever.
I wonder if the gecko engine could be used in KDE.
Ken Broadfoot.
Ramstein?
Ken
Microsoft may even come up with a perfectly good deal to settle out of court, however I would rather see them lose in court and end up with less than let them wiggle out of trouble again. I can see the quotes now:
"We decided to settle out of court even though we 'knew' we were right and justly had the freedom to innovate, we just decided this would be better for OUR customers... blah blah blah blah.....etc."
Ken Broadfoot
Ken