BUT IT'S BEER! ON A SOPHIE MONK CD!!!1111ONE ONE ONE!11
Can't you see the impact this discovery could have on the music industry? "Britney Spears - now with more BEER!"
Not only can they appeal to the horny 14 year old male population, but also the impotent overweight 40 year old couch potato male population!
4. Profit!!!
Why do you people always have to be so critical of things - this guy has managed to put beer on a CD. I for one welcome our fungal music overlords, and think this is worthy of a patent. "Method of placing beverage on a CD.":D
They distort the sound and make it sounds "warmer", much like an LP sound "warmer" the second time you play it because the needle has scratched half the vinyl out of the groove and it can't reproduce the high frequencies any longer.
Give me semiconductors anyday, I want accurate reproduction, not crap induced analogue distortion.
Meanwhile, these are the same people that think running a green marker around the edge of your compact discs increases the sound quality. For a real laugh, check out this. Rampant stupidity.
Tubes have their place, but it's not in high quality* audio reproduction.
* where high quality is defined as accuracy and audio reproduction as close as possible to the original.
I know I'll be marked down as a troll for praising MS, but I'm actually quite impressed with this.
It's bloody hard to compete against free software and I'm actually amazed to see them try this approach instead of their usual media contamination methods.
Of course, I don't hope they win as I think Windows stinks (you can pry my OS X from my cold, dead fingers) but kudos to them for playing fairly for once.
Mod me as a troll if you like, but what's so special about ogg?
Hardly anybody outside of/. has ever heard of it, it doesn't have any momentum, it doesn't have DRM support (there is no way even in your wildest dreams that RIAA member companies will allow unrestricted song downloads without any form of copy protection)
You say it sound better - at 64kbps, yes, but all modern formats at 128kbps are pretty much even. (WMA, AAC, OGG etc)
Yes, it's free, but when you're paying $1 per track, the encoder license is a drop in the ocean for buy.com/iTMS in the grand scheme of things. Ogg vorbis is nice, but it's only slightly less obscure than musepack.
I'm all for open standards/open source, but IMHO ogg is the answer to a question nobody asked. At the very least it would need to support some form of DRM no even be looked at by any major company for music distribution online.
Did I mention how few portable devices support it?
The original cube had a 450mhz G4, an ATi rage 128, and (I think) a 5400 rpm hard drive. And they regularly overheated in some climates.
Now, if you for one minute think that a G4 cube upgraded with a GeForce 3, a 7200RPM 120gb hard drive and a 1.2ghz G4 chip is going to run fanless, well, I've got a molten puddle of silicone and plastic to sell you.
And all in an out of warranty cube which is already maxed (you can add a whole 512MB extra RAM and the controller is only ATA66 so no drives > 120GB for you!) out so no room for future upgrades! for $1879 it sounds like a steal to me, especially with those pokey G5's retailing for a bloated $1999.
Get real.
Unless you have some sort of cube fetish, really - whats the point, for $120 extra you can have yourself a 64 bit workstation that's likely 3x as powerful. With room to grow. And warranty. And new technology like bluetooth and FW800.
I honestly can't imagine Apple caring less either way.
Don't all FM transmissions have a lowpass at 15KHz?
Maybe I'm completely off base here, but I'm quite sure I heard that from someone knowledgeable (and considering the quality of most FM radio stations, it sure sounds like that to be the case). If so, this would degrade the quality of the signal quite considerably, and you might as well just fill up your iPod with 96kbps mp3's.
The KWQ stub library that Apple used to make Safari without paying Qt developer costs is written in Objective C++ (i kid you not), and is tied to Cocoa. Cocoa of course is a proprietary set of APIs, which are not portable.
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I don't particularly want mainstream browsers to support popup blocking because I fear that the day this happens is the day people create new, more intelligent, more annoying popup scripts that bypass the blocking mechanism. (most popup blockers will only allow a popup in response to a link being clicked, how lovely it would be to get a new ad popup every time you clicked a link) or, insert bigger, uglier flash ads in the middle of the actual content to compensate.
Maybe I'm mistaken, or maybe Apple doesn't do this anymore, but doesn't Apple ship like 3 up-to-date coupons with every retail copy of Mac OS so you can uprade for like $30? And as long as you keep upgrading, it keeps costing you $30...
Don't these people understand that if they demand songs only be offered in album format, nobody will buy them and people who were going to be legitimate will be forced to go back to kazaa? Surely they realise that something is better than nothing. If people wanted to buy entire albums, well, that's what sanity music and best buy are for.
*shakes head in disbelievement*
I'll be really pissed off if they ruin iTMS.
Sounds a lot like the excellent LaunchBar, except LaunchBar doesn't index content (I don't think, anyway) - although OS X's find utilitie does and it would be trivial to integrate the two I'd imagine.
I don't understand why people went to the effort of developing SATA, when that's basically what FireWire is. FireWire is free to use and implement, relatively inexpensive per controller, supplies power, offers long cable runs (compared to ATA), daisychainable, and hot pluggable. Can someone please explain to me what benifiets SATA have over firewire? I don't understand it...
Especially since pr0n spammers aren't content to sit and wait for people to come to them, but actively seek out people, who may be trying to avoid it. Porn addiction is a real thing; there are many men who struggle with it, who want to quit, but can't. I've never been much tempted in that way, but I've had friends who are. Many pornographers know this: that's why they spam and put out teasers, because they know the bait works.
This is it exactly. I can understand them sending out spam, but lately I've been getting ones that are specifically targetted to get past my mail filtering system. I use Mail.app on OS X, and it's junk mail filter is great, except for when the subject has things like "girls F U C K I N G horses", and the body text is actually an image, reducing the effectiveness of the filter. Don't they understand that the people who go to the effort of enabling and training mail filters are the ones least likely to click their links?
Well I've never had iTunes rip a bad mp3/aac, and considering I've ripped CD's while on a train I don't think iTunes is at fault here. I hate to sound facetious but the validity of your post sort of goes down the train when you give props to AudioCatalyst, which uses the Xing encoding engine (optimized for speed, not quality). Go check out some mp3 comparison sites and see how bad Xing really is. No wonder it's so fast.
There are much better lossless formats out there. I just compressed a large (2048x1536) image to PNG, and the filesize came out as 4.5MB (using the brute force method of pngcrush). I compressed the same image to lossless JPEG 2000 and it came out as 1MB. Yes, I know PNG is not designed for photo quality images, but if we're debating the merits of lossless image compression I think this is the area where it would matter most. 4.5MB vs 1MB is bloody huge. Anyone using Mac OS X can try it for yourself as Quicktime 6 and above have built in support for encoding and decoding JP2.
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I think he is not concerned with actually running the 12vdc down the CAT5e cable, the wire thickness should probably handle anything up to 110v fine; he is more concerned with someone possibly plugging the live CAT5 cable into an unsuspecting NIC. I don't think most ethernet cards are equipped to handle 12VDC down the sense lines with probably 3-4amps. And that's when you'll see the magic smoke escape.
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Can't you see the impact this discovery could have on the music industry? "Britney Spears - now with more BEER!"
Not only can they appeal to the horny 14 year old male population, but also the impotent overweight 40 year old couch potato male population!
4. Profit!!!
Why do you people always have to be so critical of things - this guy has managed to put beer on a CD. I for one welcome our fungal music overlords, and think this is worthy of a patent. "Method of placing beverage on a CD." :D
For a site dedicated to a camcorder from the 80's, that is so homoerotic. This is not the face of a heterosexual.
Wow, I just realised my gaydar even works over HTTP
* Disclaimer: I am not against homosexuals in any way, shape or form; I am merely perving :)
They distort the sound and make it sounds "warmer", much like an LP sound "warmer" the second time you play it because the needle has scratched half the vinyl out of the groove and it can't reproduce the high frequencies any longer.
Give me semiconductors anyday, I want accurate reproduction, not crap induced analogue distortion.
Meanwhile, these are the same people that think running a green marker around the edge of your compact discs increases the sound quality. For a real laugh, check out this. Rampant stupidity.
Tubes have their place, but it's not in high quality* audio reproduction.
* where high quality is defined as accuracy and audio reproduction as close as possible to the original.
It's bloody hard to compete against free software and I'm actually amazed to see them try this approach instead of their usual media contamination methods.
Of course, I don't hope they win as I think Windows stinks (you can pry my OS X from my cold, dead fingers) but kudos to them for playing fairly for once.
You can play an MP3 on a 6100/60 (60MHz 601) at full quality with some cycles to spare, or on a 33 or 40Mhz 68040 at reduced quality.
What's wrong with SMTP AUTH? If people would just enable that instead...
Actually, batteries are not covered past the 1 year date (at least here in Australia) even with AppleCare as they are considered "consumable" items.
Profit!
Hardly anybody outside of /. has ever heard of it, it doesn't have any momentum, it doesn't have DRM support (there is no way even in your wildest dreams that RIAA member companies will allow unrestricted song downloads without any form of copy protection)
You say it sound better - at 64kbps, yes, but all modern formats at 128kbps are pretty much even. (WMA, AAC, OGG etc)
Yes, it's free, but when you're paying $1 per track, the encoder license is a drop in the ocean for buy.com/iTMS in the grand scheme of things. Ogg vorbis is nice, but it's only slightly less obscure than musepack.
I'm all for open standards/open source, but IMHO ogg is the answer to a question nobody asked. At the very least it would need to support some form of DRM no even be looked at by any major company for music distribution online.
Did I mention how few portable devices support it?
The original cube had a 450mhz G4, an ATi rage 128, and (I think) a 5400 rpm hard drive. And they regularly overheated in some climates.
Now, if you for one minute think that a G4 cube upgraded with a GeForce 3, a 7200RPM 120gb hard drive and a 1.2ghz G4 chip is going to run fanless, well, I've got a molten puddle of silicone and plastic to sell you.
This will have a fan. A BIG one.
And all in an out of warranty cube which is already maxed (you can add a whole 512MB extra RAM and the controller is only ATA66 so no drives > 120GB for you!) out so no room for future upgrades! for $1879 it sounds like a steal to me, especially with those pokey G5's retailing for a bloated $1999.
Get real.
Unless you have some sort of cube fetish, really - whats the point, for $120 extra you can have yourself a 64 bit workstation that's likely 3x as powerful. With room to grow. And warranty. And new technology like bluetooth and FW800.
I honestly can't imagine Apple caring less either way.
Maybe I'm completely off base here, but I'm quite sure I heard that from someone knowledgeable (and considering the quality of most FM radio stations, it sure sounds like that to be the case). If so, this would degrade the quality of the signal quite considerably, and you might as well just fill up your iPod with 96kbps mp3's.
Can someone who knows clarify this? Thanks.
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I don't particularly want mainstream browsers to support popup blocking because I fear that the day this happens is the day people create new, more intelligent, more annoying popup scripts that bypass the blocking mechanism. (most popup blockers will only allow a popup in response to a link being clicked, how lovely it would be to get a new ad popup every time you clicked a link) or, insert bigger, uglier flash ads in the middle of the actual content to compensate.
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Maybe I'm mistaken, or maybe Apple doesn't do this anymore, but doesn't Apple ship like 3 up-to-date coupons with every retail copy of Mac OS so you can uprade for like $30? And as long as you keep upgrading, it keeps costing you $30...
Don't these people understand that if they demand songs only be offered in album format, nobody will buy them and people who were going to be legitimate will be forced to go back to kazaa? Surely they realise that something is better than nothing. If people wanted to buy entire albums, well, that's what sanity music and best buy are for. *shakes head in disbelievement* I'll be really pissed off if they ruin iTMS.
Sounds a lot like the excellent LaunchBar, except LaunchBar doesn't index content (I don't think, anyway) - although OS X's find utilitie does and it would be trivial to integrate the two I'd imagine.
Oh I don't know, I suppose the answer to that is yes. If you believe that Windows ME did away with MS-DOS...
I don't understand why people went to the effort of developing SATA, when that's basically what FireWire is. FireWire is free to use and implement, relatively inexpensive per controller, supplies power, offers long cable runs (compared to ATA), daisychainable, and hot pluggable. Can someone please explain to me what benifiets SATA have over firewire? I don't understand it...
Especially since pr0n spammers aren't content to sit and wait for people to come to them, but actively seek out people, who may be trying to avoid it. Porn addiction is a real thing; there are many men who struggle with it, who want to quit, but can't. I've never been much tempted in that way, but I've had friends who are. Many pornographers know this: that's why they spam and put out teasers, because they know the bait works.
This is it exactly. I can understand them sending out spam, but lately I've been getting ones that are specifically targetted to get past my mail filtering system. I use Mail.app on OS X, and it's junk mail filter is great, except for when the subject has things like "girls F U C K I N G horses", and the body text is actually an image, reducing the effectiveness of the filter. Don't they understand that the people who go to the effort of enabling and training mail filters are the ones least likely to click their links?
Well I've never had iTunes rip a bad mp3/aac, and considering I've ripped CD's while on a train I don't think iTunes is at fault here. I hate to sound facetious but the validity of your post sort of goes down the train when you give props to AudioCatalyst, which uses the Xing encoding engine (optimized for speed, not quality). Go check out some mp3 comparison sites and see how bad Xing really is. No wonder it's so fast.
There are much better lossless formats out there. I just compressed a large (2048x1536) image to PNG, and the filesize came out as 4.5MB (using the brute force method of pngcrush). I compressed the same image to lossless JPEG 2000 and it came out as 1MB. Yes, I know PNG is not designed for photo quality images, but if we're debating the merits of lossless image compression I think this is the area where it would matter most. 4.5MB vs 1MB is bloody huge. Anyone using Mac OS X can try it for yourself as Quicktime 6 and above have built in support for encoding and decoding JP2.
I think he is not concerned with actually running the 12vdc down the CAT5e cable, the wire thickness should probably handle anything up to 110v fine; he is more concerned with someone possibly plugging the live CAT5 cable into an unsuspecting NIC. I don't think most ethernet cards are equipped to handle 12VDC down the sense lines with probably 3-4amps. And that's when you'll see the magic smoke escape.
and they don't look anywhere NEAR as pretty.