Or what would be a 60-70 minute recording is spread across 2 LPs. This is how Bob Dylan's latest, "Modern Times" was released. Also latest releases from Flaming Lips & Yo La Tengo are avail. on double LPs.
As you might guess, I reeeally love my vinyl LPs. I have a mid-priced Sony belt-drive turntable. If you really want to make your LPs sound as good as possible, get as good speakers as you can afford to - that's typically the weakest link in the audio chain.
I'm not surprised either, but for different reasons. Apple is not "fair game" to be singled out for an industry-wide phenonmenon, but that's Greenpeace's typical modus operandi. Any other CEO would sue their asses, but Jobs, with his left-leaning sympathies, probably will not.
...which has been re-written ad nauseum for the past six months.
The average mac enthusiast doesn't give a rat's ass about strategic timing of OS releases. If OS 10.5 wasn't ready until now, that's certainly good enough for me.
Ideal for the majors, shitty for everyone else. This is a clusterfuck of an idea (one that could only have come from Big Record Labels). Apple won't go for it; I think that's a given. So that leaves the remaining 15% or so of the personal music-player market, for which the increased cost will drive down their market-share even further.
Brought to you from the industry that actually hates it customers....
She got screwed, for sure. But from what I've been able to garner she put up a pretty weak defense.
I think it will be a long time before anyone takes the RIAA to court again. Which is a shame, because the record industry is the only business sector I can think of which actually hates its customers. Really, they have nothing but contempt and loathing for the customer base that keeps them in business.
One of the things revealed in the course of the trial proceedings (not that it was any huge surprise) was that the RIAA actually considers ripping your CD to your iPod an illegal act. Sorry, but fuck that shit.
Yeah, I'm not discounting the possibility that there's just something in my self-built rig that Vista doesn't like. But I can't justify buying a new off-the-shelf Vista-certified PC, just to run Vista.
I had such a miserable experience running Vista for two weeks (on a fairly ballsy PC - AMD Athlon fx 4000 w/ 4 gb RAM, gamer-quality video card, etc.). Sorry, but you'd have to point a gun to my head to get me to do that again.
This was the last Windows PC in my otherwise all-Mac house. Tomorrow I'm replacing it with a new Mac Mini Core2Duo. Probably just redeploy the PC as a home network server.
If you love Vista, great, I'm not trying to piss on your parade. I will admit the Aero interface is very pretty. Hardly makes up for random blue-screen/reboots several times a day. Yes, this was a fresh install, not an upgrade version.
I too have a new MacBook Pro on the way, with plans to migrate as much of my work (audio and video editing) onto it as possible. Ideally my desktop PC can just be redeployed as a home server.
Same here. I've been a Comcast customer for about four years now and have never run any of their installers for anything. I don't use them for email and I couldn't even tell you what their home page looks like. My current Windoze browser is Safari 3 Beta (works great, BTW... must faster page rendering than Firefox).
... even without prior knowledge of the joke, what do you think the chances are that an Apple employee could publish this and still have a job the next day?
I have Comcast 8 MB/sec. service. When I begin a long, bandwidth-intensive operation my throughput will start out in the low teens, like 13 or 14 MB/sec. Then in about five seconds it will throttle back to just under 8 MB.
Perhaps something like this accounts for the Speakeasy.net results.
I figured the best thing to use for evaluation was some music I was already very familiar with: "Hunky Dory" by David Bowie (1971). A very well-recorded album featuring all styles from straight-forward rock to lush orchestrations.
(good deal too; the LP was just $9.99, though the individual tracks were $1.29)
Must admit I was not disappointed. Previously I've rarely bought any music from iTunes - just my own CDs ripped to MP3 at 192 or 256K. The 256K AAC sounded great on the big speakers. Very clean and well-defined high frequency.
As poignant as your story is, I don't understand your subject title. And this all has to do "with this administration" in.... what way? Like the same thing wouldn't have happened during the Clinton admin., or the whoever-comes-next admin? C'mon... the system is corrupt on all sides.
The point is simply to placate shareholders and keep them from dumping their stock. Really. AT&T just bought my phoneco, BellSouth. When are they gonna have any one these services available to me, who lives way far away from the nearest CO? The twelfth-of-never, that's when.
Comcast, lame as they are, gives me HDTV and 8 Mbit/sec internet service right now. How on earth does Ma Bell think it's gonna catch up to where the cableco's already are?
insert comments on home schooling, or at the very least, teaching your kids how to think
Glad to! We pulled our kids out of public school seven years ago, in part because no sort of critical thinking was being taught. Older one's in college now, younger one will be in 12th grade this fall. Best decision we ever made as parents.
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Or what would be a 60-70 minute recording is spread across 2 LPs. This is how Bob Dylan's latest, "Modern Times" was released. Also latest releases from Flaming Lips & Yo La Tengo are avail. on double LPs.
As you might guess, I reeeally love my vinyl LPs. I have a mid-priced Sony belt-drive turntable. If you really want to make your LPs sound as good as possible, get as good speakers as you can afford to - that's typically the weakest link in the audio chain.
I'm not surprised either, but for different reasons. Apple is not "fair game" to be singled out for an industry-wide phenonmenon, but that's Greenpeace's typical modus operandi. Any other CEO would sue their asses, but Jobs, with his left-leaning sympathies, probably will not.
...which has been re-written ad nauseum for the past six months.
The average mac enthusiast doesn't give a rat's ass about strategic timing of OS releases. If OS 10.5 wasn't ready until now, that's certainly good enough for me.
Ideal for the majors, shitty for everyone else. This is a clusterfuck of an idea (one that could only have come from Big Record Labels). Apple won't go for it; I think that's a given. So that leaves the remaining 15% or so of the personal music-player market, for which the increased cost will drive down their market-share even further.
Brought to you from the industry that actually hates it customers....
Wow, did the business press ever jump the gun on this one. The headline in the Wall St. Journal this morning was "Oracle Buys BEA".
The above is an awesome comment. I was gonna send Rob a thank-you note as well, but you've pretty much summed it all up for me.
She got screwed, for sure. But from what I've been able to garner she put up a pretty weak defense.
I think it will be a long time before anyone takes the RIAA to court again. Which is a shame, because the record industry is the only business sector I can think of which actually hates its customers. Really, they have nothing but contempt and loathing for the customer base that keeps them in business.
One of the things revealed in the course of the trial proceedings (not that it was any huge surprise) was that the RIAA actually considers ripping your CD to your iPod an illegal act. Sorry, but fuck that shit.
WTFV.
(watch the fine video.)
Right on, right on. Had I any mod points at this moment, you'd certainly get an "insightful" from me for that post.
People who plot for two years to take over a Serialz website? Bunch o' loozahs!
Yeah, I'm not discounting the possibility that there's just something in my self-built rig that Vista doesn't like. But I can't justify buying a new off-the-shelf Vista-certified PC, just to run Vista.
:-)
I can always justify buying a new Mac, though
Not a god-damned thing.
I had such a miserable experience running Vista for two weeks (on a fairly ballsy PC - AMD Athlon fx 4000 w/ 4 gb RAM, gamer-quality video card, etc.). Sorry, but you'd have to point a gun to my head to get me to do that again.
This was the last Windows PC in my otherwise all-Mac house. Tomorrow I'm replacing it with a new Mac Mini Core2Duo. Probably just redeploy the PC as a home network server.
If you love Vista, great, I'm not trying to piss on your parade. I will admit the Aero interface is very pretty. Hardly makes up for random blue-screen/reboots several times a day. Yes, this was a fresh install, not an upgrade version.
This is just one man's experience......
I too have a new MacBook Pro on the way, with plans to migrate as much of my work (audio and video editing) onto it as possible. Ideally my desktop PC can just be redeployed as a home server.
Same here. I've been a Comcast customer for about four years now and have never run any of their installers for anything. I don't use them for email and I couldn't even tell you what their home page looks like. My current Windoze browser is Safari 3 Beta (works great, BTW... must faster page rendering than Firefox).
That's a big ten-four good buddy... only problem is we can't kill 'em fast enough.
I was unclear in parent post... I shouldn't have said "this" in reference to the gag article, but "a legit piece like this" ... my bad
Give that man some "Funny" mod points!
... even without prior knowledge of the joke, what do you think the chances are that an Apple employee could publish this and still have a job the next day?
Check this page:
http://www.openlogic.com/partners/index.php
Clearly OpenLogic has certain ideas about what constitutes "good" open software.
I have Comcast 8 MB/sec. service. When I begin a long, bandwidth-intensive operation my throughput will start out in the low teens, like 13 or 14 MB/sec. Then in about five seconds it will throttle back to just under 8 MB.
Perhaps something like this accounts for the Speakeasy.net results.
...the Woz certainly looks, uh, well-fed. (compared with always-trim Steve Jobs.)
I figured the best thing to use for evaluation was some music I was already very familiar with: "Hunky Dory" by David Bowie (1971). A very well-recorded album featuring all styles from straight-forward rock to lush orchestrations.
(good deal too; the LP was just $9.99, though the individual tracks were $1.29)
Must admit I was not disappointed. Previously I've rarely bought any music from iTunes - just my own CDs ripped to MP3 at 192 or 256K. The 256K AAC sounded great on the big speakers. Very clean and well-defined high frequency.
Good for Apple; good for EMI.
As poignant as your story is, I don't understand your subject title. And this all has to do "with this administration" in.... what way? Like the same thing wouldn't have happened during the Clinton admin., or the whoever-comes-next admin? C'mon... the system is corrupt on all sides.
The point is simply to placate shareholders and keep them from dumping their stock. Really. AT&T just bought my phoneco, BellSouth. When are they gonna have any one these services available to me, who lives way far away from the nearest CO? The twelfth-of-never, that's when.
Comcast, lame as they are, gives me HDTV and 8 Mbit/sec internet service right now. How on earth does Ma Bell think it's gonna catch up to where the cableco's already are?
insert comments on home schooling, or at the very least, teaching your kids how to think
Glad to! We pulled our kids out of public school seven years ago, in part because no sort of critical thinking was being taught. Older one's in college now, younger one will be in 12th grade this fall. Best decision we ever made as parents.