1) TV Stars Who Insist on Singing (William Shatner!...) 2) German Covers (Bonanza, She Loves You Ja Ja Ja) 3) Hindi versions of Abba tunes 4) Terrifying Christian Recordings 5) Kick-ass 007 covers by the 'Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys'. 6) Eilert Pilarm.
Plus the usual suspects: Mrs. Miller, the Chipmunks, Spock, Tammy Bakker, the Shaggs...
eJukebox (audiosoft.net) is a pretty sweet Win jukebox.
It trumps iTunes in at least one area: Imported album cover art is built into a large, browsable visual CD collection. This has helped me pick tunes and break the constricted habit one often gets when choosing from an alphabetized list. And it's great for parties...
The app offers a 'kiosk' or 'party' fullscreen mode, where the rest of your machine is locked away under a password.
The app is still rough (In terms of interface consistency, Bill Gates will love it, because it is a mess.)
The user community is strong, the programmers responsive and positive, and the app is being bettered day by day.
1) I work at a magazine. We go to print on fridays at 6 o'clock. One friday, the dongled machines running Quark 6 began shutting down unprovoked every 15 minutes or so, losing everything not saved. Quark was reinstalled, the OS and Quark was re-reinstalled. Same deal.
The deadline at the printers' was pushed well into the night, and eventually the editors struggled through.
The later verdict was, what made Quark think it was unlicenced was a conflict with the windows patch against the SoBig worm. We had to work this one out ourselves, no help from Quark.
2) My uncle runs a small publishing shop. His Quark started shutting down on him at any and all times, losing whatever was on the screen.
No mystery this time -- the rotten workmanship of the Quark dongle. It was loose in the serial port, and would lose contact with the app, shutting Quark down.
Having paid good money for the pleasure of Quark ownership, he refused to download an illegal 'dongle killer' app... which would probably have been the sensible thing. ---
I'm amazed at how universally hated this application is, it's right up there with clippy and jar jar...
Wanting sound comparable to CDs in your bought MP3s doesn't make you an audiophile.
It's a misstep to put up such a great service, and then offer content encoded at lower quality than what people get when they rip and burn their CD collection on default settings.
You buy MP3s for keeps, so buying 'cassette tape' compression now means that you'll end up reaquiring the material later.
Apple are usually brave enough to push the industrial standards envelope for consumer and mass-market devices and standards (think Firewire, Superdrive etc).
128 kbit AAC is disappointing now. In two years' time it'll really suck. By then the bitrate will have to be upped, and people will be urged to reaquire.
In all the comparative tests I've seen, the price-per-page of Lexmark prints (proper real-life tests, not the phony type) has been the highest by a clear margin. Much higher than Epson, Canon, HP etc.
In one test, as I recall, a Lexmark colour A4 print averaged a price of just short of 3 bucks in consumables.
Hilarious, considering that printer advertisements always show REAMS of full colour A4 photos flying out of the printer...
The whole printer/inks market is a rotten crooked scam - and sadly the bad manners have spilled over from the consumer to the pro market segment.
This exact thing took place in Denmark in November 2002.
Here is what happened:
'Antipiratgruppen' (Danish RIAA organisation) scoured KaZaA for Danish users sharing files and took to court a database of IPs and the contents of shared directories.
Danish court granted them a per-case order forcing ISPs to resolve IPs into real names.
The ISPs coughed up, and the anti-piracy group sued 100 kids for their illegal MP3s.
Each sharer was offered a deal - pay a substantial fine, or be dragged through court and be hit with serious financial ruin.
A few people got nailed pretty hard, and the story got the large amount of press that had been planned. One college dorm settled at $15.000 per user on the network.
(...and one friend of mine stayed up one night, destroying 150 CD-Roms in his possession with a rotary sander *hehe*).
The Anti Piracy Group did NOT get what they have been campaigning for all along - vigilante powers: They still obviously have to go through court every single time they want ISPs to resolve an IP number into a user name.
This ruckus has just had the effect that people turn off sharing and turn to the encrypted P2P clients.
I hope someone builds a WinAmp extension which reads the ID3 tag and fetches album cover art and info...
There's one for iTunes already...:-)
One of the downsides of the MP3 revolution is that most people seem to listen to scrambled playlists of tracks, not whole albums sequentially as originally intended by (most) artists.
Fast access to album information and liner notes might strengthen the album format in MP3-land.
Apart from fueling the market for >1 GHz machines to run office applications (!!!), I see no benefit from this eye candy.
For once, Apple got it wrong in OS X. You ought to experience how sluggishly it performs your UI tasks.
We all know that Microsoft will release a butt-ugly and more or less broken copy of whatever Apple does. And XP already demands ~90 Mb of System RAM just to tick over.
Anybody apart from me believe that the UI should be lean and fast as hell?
Regarding janpod66: That is a typical pissy reaction to change of any sort.
There're a lot of great postings in the archives. It's a fine resource. A six-month limit just makes no sense.
Rather, people should own up to what they post. Most of us would find that a natural thing to do. I do it every day.
Regards.
Slashdot Mirror
Hiya!
Well, this is a subject I care DEEPLY for, and following site beats 'em all.
Check out April Winchell's online collection of bizarre tunes:
1) TV Stars Who Insist on Singing (William Shatner!...)
2) German Covers (Bonanza, She Loves You Ja Ja Ja)
3) Hindi versions of Abba tunes
4) Terrifying Christian Recordings
5) Kick-ass 007 covers by the 'Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys'.
6) Eilert Pilarm.
Plus the usual suspects: Mrs. Miller, the Chipmunks, Spock, Tammy Bakker, the Shaggs...
eJukebox (audiosoft.net) is a pretty sweet Win jukebox. It trumps iTunes in at least one area: Imported album cover art is built into a large, browsable visual CD collection. This has helped me pick tunes and break the constricted habit one often gets when choosing from an alphabetized list. And it's great for parties... The app offers a 'kiosk' or 'party' fullscreen mode, where the rest of your machine is locked away under a password. The app is still rough (In terms of interface consistency, Bill Gates will love it, because it is a mess.) The user community is strong, the programmers responsive and positive, and the app is being bettered day by day.
Two Quark stories:
1)
I work at a magazine. We go to print on fridays at 6 o'clock. One friday, the dongled machines running Quark 6 began shutting down unprovoked every 15 minutes or so, losing everything not saved. Quark was reinstalled, the OS and Quark was re-reinstalled. Same deal.
The deadline at the printers' was pushed well into the night, and eventually the editors struggled through.
The later verdict was, what made Quark think it was unlicenced was a conflict with the windows patch against the SoBig worm. We had to work this one out ourselves, no help from Quark.
2)
My uncle runs a small publishing shop. His Quark started shutting down on him at any and all times, losing whatever was on the screen.
No mystery this time -- the rotten workmanship of the Quark dongle. It was loose in the serial port, and would lose contact with the app, shutting Quark down.
Having paid good money for the pleasure of Quark ownership, he refused to download an illegal 'dongle killer' app... which would probably have been the sensible thing.
---
I'm amazed at how universally hated this application is, it's right up there with clippy and jar jar...
Take note, Adobe...
Wanting sound comparable to CDs in your bought MP3s doesn't make you an audiophile.
It's a misstep to put up such a great service, and then offer content encoded at lower quality than what people get when they rip and burn their CD collection on default settings.
You buy MP3s for keeps, so buying 'cassette tape' compression now means that you'll end up reaquiring the material later.
Apple are usually brave enough to push the industrial standards envelope for consumer and mass-market devices and standards (think Firewire, Superdrive etc).
128 kbit AAC is disappointing now. In two years' time it'll really suck. By then the bitrate will have to be upped, and people will be urged to reaquire.
Don't ever buy a Lexmark printer.
In all the comparative tests I've seen, the price-per-page of Lexmark prints (proper real-life tests, not the phony type) has been the highest by a clear margin. Much higher than Epson, Canon, HP etc.
In one test, as I recall, a Lexmark colour A4 print averaged a price of just short of 3 bucks in consumables.
Hilarious, considering that printer advertisements always show REAMS of full colour A4 photos flying out of the printer...
The whole printer/inks market is a rotten crooked scam - and sadly the bad manners have spilled over from the consumer to the pro market segment.
This exact thing took place in Denmark in November 2002.
Here is what happened:
'Antipiratgruppen' (Danish RIAA organisation) scoured KaZaA for Danish users sharing files and took to court a database of IPs and the contents of shared directories.
Danish court granted them a per-case order forcing ISPs to resolve IPs into real names.
The ISPs coughed up, and the anti-piracy group sued 100 kids for their illegal MP3s.
Each sharer was offered a deal - pay a substantial fine, or be dragged through court and be hit with serious financial ruin.
A few people got nailed pretty hard, and the story got the large amount of press that had been planned. One college dorm settled at $15.000 per user on the network.
(...and one friend of mine stayed up one night, destroying 150 CD-Roms in his possession with a rotary sander *hehe*).
The Anti Piracy Group did NOT get what they have been campaigning for all along - vigilante powers: They still obviously have to go through court every single time they want ISPs to resolve an IP number into a user name.
This ruckus has just had the effect that people turn off sharing and turn to the encrypted P2P clients.
I hope someone builds a WinAmp extension which reads the ID3 tag and fetches album cover art and info...
:-)
There's one for iTunes already...
One of the downsides of the MP3 revolution is that most people seem to listen to scrambled playlists of tracks, not whole albums sequentially as originally intended by (most) artists.
Fast access to album information and liner notes might strengthen the album format in MP3-land.
-Resprung
Not at all useless!
"...implement my feed on their site with no more difficulty than copying and pasting a few lines of pre-generated code"
There are utils which do precisely this.
It is done server-side in CGI or perl. The user is given a javascript snippet which pulls your RSS feed onto his or her website. Simple as that.
Here's one ready to go...
http://www.infinitepenguins.net/rss/
Best regards -Resprung
The Audiophile range are pretty much the best pro-sumer sound cards. Low latency, kick-ass converters. I am extremely happy with the one I'm running.
Hope you get lucky with the patch.
Try M-audio's helpline - my experience is fast & good response.
-Sune
Three words for you:
Operating System Bloat.
Apart from fueling the market for >1 GHz machines to run office applications (!!!), I see no benefit from this eye candy.
For once, Apple got it wrong in OS X. You ought to experience how sluggishly it performs your UI tasks.
We all know that Microsoft will release a butt-ugly and more or less broken copy of whatever Apple does. And XP already demands ~90 Mb of System RAM just to tick over.
Anybody apart from me believe that the UI should be lean and fast as hell?
Regarding janpod66: That is a typical pissy reaction to change of any sort. There're a lot of great postings in the archives. It's a fine resource. A six-month limit just makes no sense. Rather, people should own up to what they post. Most of us would find that a natural thing to do. I do it every day. Regards.
Yep.
Well put, dude