If Hollywood doesn't care about NTSC analog then they're even dumber than we all thought already. For Joe Schmoe, that level of quality is Good Enough. In fact, it's overkill. Joe Schmoe likes to record things in SLP because "I can get 8 hours on a tape!!" It looks like ass but he doesn't care.
They bitch about Napsterization. What is the predominant type of mp3 traded on p2p? 128kbit fixed rate mp3s are what I mostly saw. I almost NEVER saw high quality VBR encoded mp3s. That is just a little too much clue for ole joe. So what do you think is going to be traded video wise when it gets a little more practical for Joe? I'm betting on MPEG1 made from SLP tapes. Hollyweird's "quality" argument is irrelevant.
The musicians had a body of work that was theirs BEFORE the label contract came on the scene. I read something Frank Zappa said once to the effect that there is no canonical versions of any his songs, only particular recordings and performances. He didn't just fight Warner Bros. for his master tapes but for the music he composed while in their stable. I would grant that the label owning the copyrights for particular recordings they had paid for being fair. It's just like getting paid to play a private party. The band, on the other hand, would still have the copyrights to the sheet music itself. They can perform and record their songs elsewhere even if the relationship with a label goes bad. Alas, no record company behaves so fairly. They want to own the whole enchilada and not only be able to fire a band but to lock them out of their life's work in the process AND be able to bleed them financially white for that last drop of profit once they aren't "big" anymore. I have a feeling Rosen likes the idea of used up boy bands working fast food just as much we do...doesn't make it fair though.
Nothing so dastardly is being proposed for wedding photographers.
In the case of a wedding photographer, his technique is not the whole art of it. The subjects of the art are paying to record a deeply personal moment....one I would not suffer to let someone else own in any way. I would allow the photographer license to use the photos for promotional purposes or whatever other fair uses go into running his business. I'll cheerfully let them have the use of the photos. I simply won't allow one to own a part of my life. The musicians should not allow record companies to own parts of theirs.
"LOL -- the couple is the customer. They are not models, if they were the photographer could fire them when they act like idiots and cause him to run 4 hours over, or burn expensive film on shots they'll never sell."
Since they are customers then they own the images. Simple as that. The photographer wants to have his cake and eat it too. Either they get free prints and the photographer owns the image or the CUSTOMER owns his own fricken images. I certainly will make that clear to any such doing personal work for me.
OS X DOEs include the ability to run the older apps via Classic which is basically a virtual machine that runs OS 9. There are many apps from the 7.x era that won't run in this environment but 7.x has been deprecated for over four years. I've seen cheesy educational titles from the early nineties that didn't like 8.x or 9.x much but I don't think that will hurt much.
Other apps made with Apple's Carbon API will execute natively under either OS 9 or OS X. AppleWorks is one such and it looks the same in either OS.
Apple IS thinking of their longstanding user base and have decent answers to the issues you mention.
Prisoners are slave labor. It's bad enough that we have to compete with people in India and Mexico who are willing to work for a fraction of what we get paid for. Others have beat the case FOR this sort of thing to death so I'll only point out that it is quite enough to have to put up with. For all the bitching people do about cheap foreign labor at least they aren't slaves (usually). Prisoners most certainly are. If they don't do this work then their sentences are extended and they can expect harsher treatment. You think YOU'RE powerless in the face of PHB's? At least you can quit and get something better. Not so a prisoner. Also, the wages paid to prisoners for their "real" jobs are vastly lower than what you or I can negotiate in a real interview. Yeah, they're "PAID" alright. Check it out:
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/prison.ht m
It is hard enough to get and hold a decent job as it is right now. I DO NOT want to compete with slave labor in my own country. Now prisons supplying services for EACH OTHER and lowering the overall cost of the prison system is something I would be for. It doesn't create a demand for slavery.
If this lame name whinging is the best Ogg's detractors can do then it should go like gangbusters. Incidentally, the audio codec is simply Vorbis. Ogg is a container format like Quicktime. In time we will be able to speak of Ogg Theora and in lotsa time Ogg Tarkin. If I'm not totally mistaken it can contain the Speex speech compression codec as well.
The name whinging is really lame. Kleenex most certainly "isn't a word". The name certainly doesn't make me think "something to blow my excess snot into". It ACQUIRED that meaning. Think about it.
We have an educable station that plays Mechanical Universe documentary lectures from the mid eighties. You can read more about those at:
http://www.themechanicaluniverse.com/
Highly recommended. The best demonstration I ever saw on that show involved three light polarizers. The setup was three polarizers on optical stands with a lamp shining through all three. That is, all three in the same orientation so the light shines through. The third is turned through 90 degrees and of course blocks the light of the lamp from the screen. Dr. Goodstein then turns the second middle filter through 45 degrees and almost half the light makes it through the screen. The result is completely counterintuitive and is an excellent and easy macro scale demonstration of quantum principles.
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Religious fanatics really did make it be all-gone. The big surprise is that it was Muslims rather than the fundies. Things just won't blow up and disappear either. It'll just look ugly for a thousand years.
No comment on the majority of your post but I would like to clarify one thing:
The fact that 49% (or even, hypothetically, 51%) of its citizens "think the First Amendment goes too far" does not mean that there is sufficient political will to repeal it. The Constitution has safeguards such as a supermajority requirement for precisely such a reason. They work. Deal with it.
If even this country become a dejure plutocracy rather than the defacto one it is now, they wouldn't bother trying to repeal the First Amendment. Instead a cumulative barrage of Executive Orders and court precedents are slowly reducing the scope of the Amendment. It's like you technically have the right to make a copy of any media you've purchased but the DMCA takes it away even if nothing more than ROT-13 protects it. They start with reasonable even necessary limitations like "Don't falsely shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre." and work their way up to things like COINTELPRO. By the time they're done, the First Amendment (and the others) are buried in legal cruft that totally negate their original design principles.
They also don't need to go after everyone who says bad things about Shrub. Some 20 year old know-nothing on Slashdot? Fuhgeddabout it! Someone making real trouble? Let's just have a surprise IRS audit or a little FBI surveillance. With enough laws on the books, EVERYONE is a potential criminal. With intense enough scrutiny, anyone can be destroyed. It isn't necessary to imprison them in a gulag either. Financial and character assassination works just fine. Our so-called leaders learned a long time ago that a frontal assualt on those pesky civil liberties is not necessary.
"Screw your blessed standards and the horse you rode in on. - The standard is what everyone is using, folks."
This is completely unacceptable as long as a single company *cough* Microsoft! *cough* controls that "standard" and is forever making everybody play kludge-catchup. If it takes more more productivity harming browser wars to put an end to this then so be it.
This is a very new port that depends of XFree86 to work. The speed of OO is just fine on Linux and Windows. Give OS X OO a few more months and try it then. A native Quartz version that has no XFree dependency is in the works but that will take some time. There are good reasons why they called it a "Developer Prerelease".
Use a good LAME VBR preset. Even at 192 kbits, there is going to be a lot of wasted storage space and transmission bandwidth. There is no reason to encode dead silence at 192 kbits. I've been using LAME's --r3mix preset and getting 8:1 compression (on average) with excellent quality on my CDs. For crying out loud, VBR has been out for years.
The last cassette deck I had was a dual unit that could autoreverse while recording and copy tapes at double speed. Of course, there's little gotchas that come up like music is still playing when the leader tape comes up and 2x speed quality issues. On the whole, though, it worked and was easy and convienient.
That won't be anytime soon. If they hold to their past conventions the post Doom III engine will have to be out for a year or two. There certainly is nothing that says they HAVE to GPL anything. Let's just be grateful they've released what they have and be nothing but overjoyed if there is more.
You're stuck with realtime speeds loading music on the media. It takes 74 minutes to fill up a disk with 74 minutes worth of tunes. The other problem is that I have home mp3 server with my entire collection on it. No batch copy, no drag 'n' drop just a phono plug. Try me again when I can do a:
mount -t vfat/dev/minidisc/mnt/minidisc cp -r tunes//mnt/minidisc
The newest version doesn't support arbitrary ssl certs either. I use Apache-SSL as a backend to our troubleticket system with a self generated cert. Mac IE is useless for accessing this system. Macs have to use either Mozilla or NS4 to access it.
The wife and I are huge fans of your show but there is one thing we notice from time to time that we've always wondered about. For instance, your country ham recipe specifies that the ham is done when the interior temp hits 140 degrees. However,
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/ham.htm
states that "cook-before-eating hams must reach 160 F to be safely cooked before serving." I know those bad boys have been salt cured but I would still be worried about trichinosis. Your "done" temperatures for meat are often lower than what the food safety people would have them be. This is a long winded way of asking "What is your approach to food safety?" You look pretty healthy to me so I'll assume you know something those government fussbudgets don't but I'd feel better about trying out some of your recipes if I knew what that was.
She is proposing that the labels offer their out-of-print catalogue in a high quality, well organized and correctly labeled open format. I'd LOVE to be able to be able to find high quality obscure jazz tunes on the likes of Gnutella and FastTrack but it just doesn't happen. Even if you do find what you are looking for, it's probably an old 128kbit rip that was made the abominable Xing encoder. Pay a quarter to immediately download a correctly labeled, sanely encoded (HQ LAME VBR preset or 160 avg kbit vorbis) track that won't cut off half way through the download? Just where do I sign up? Something like that beats "free" by a long shot.
Privoxy will let you filter Flash ads and build specific policies for your favorite sites. I basically have a white list of sites I allow Flash from with a default denial of Flash otherwise. Ditto for cookies. I also love their "javascript annoyance" features. If you have a set list of sites you use all the time, Privoxy does a bang up job of making them PITA free.
It has a real nice web based GUI for doing all of this stuff too. I know and love the Mozilla features for doing some of this and they're quicker when surfing. But Privoxy does a far more thorough job and works with any modern browser.
And then there's Spamassassin....yum!
I'd prefer something slightly different.
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Inoshiro opinined: This kind of thing, short of FLYING over to their HQ and having a sit in, is the only means you have of expressing yourself.
But I like this a lot better: This kind of thing, short of FLYING over their HQ and having a shit on, is the only means you have of expressing yourself.
You've just kicked the legs out from under one of Windows' biggest talking points...that is sooooo easy. In a way I suppose it is. Anyone can manage to use a Windows machine for a year or so before the quirks become highly annoying. Getting out of that jam without losing a buncha stuff is far from easy for nontechnical users. Keeping it from becoming highly annoying is well.....highly annoying.
Oh well, if I had mod points I would have modded you up for the link to sysinternals and your lucid description of those utilities. I have to maintain Windows machines at work and appreciate anything that makes it less of a trial.
But you ARE saying it's the job of the software companies to provide the players that the **AAs want. Even if I could "make my own player" something like the SSSCA would be used to throw me in a pound-me-in-the-ass-prison. The **AAs are buying legislation that tilts the level playing field you are presupposing. In the absence of a true free market all of this free market horseshit is just that....horseshit.
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If Hollywood doesn't care about NTSC analog then they're even dumber than we all thought already. For Joe Schmoe, that level of quality is Good Enough. In fact, it's overkill. Joe Schmoe likes to record things in SLP because "I can get 8 hours on a tape!!" It looks like ass but he doesn't care.
They bitch about Napsterization. What is the predominant type of mp3 traded on p2p? 128kbit fixed rate mp3s are what I mostly saw. I almost NEVER saw high quality VBR encoded mp3s. That is just a little too much clue for ole joe. So what do you think is going to be traded video wise when it gets a little more practical for Joe? I'm betting on MPEG1 made from SLP tapes. Hollyweird's "quality" argument is irrelevant.
The musicians had a body of work that was theirs BEFORE the label contract came on the scene. I read something Frank Zappa said once to the effect that there is no canonical versions of any his songs, only particular recordings and performances. He didn't just fight Warner Bros. for his master tapes but for the music he composed while in their stable. I would grant that the label owning the copyrights for particular recordings they had paid for being fair. It's just like getting paid to play a private party. The band, on the other hand, would still have the copyrights to the sheet music itself. They can perform and record their songs elsewhere even if the relationship with a label goes bad. Alas, no record company behaves so fairly. They want to own the whole enchilada and not only be able to fire a band but to lock them out of their life's work in the process AND be able to bleed them financially white for that last drop of profit once they aren't "big" anymore. I have a feeling Rosen likes the idea of used up boy bands working fast food just as much we do...doesn't make it fair though.
Nothing so dastardly is being proposed for wedding photographers.
In the case of a wedding photographer, his technique is not the whole art of it. The subjects of the art are paying to record a deeply personal moment....one I would not suffer to let someone else own in any way. I would allow the photographer license to use the photos for promotional purposes or whatever other fair uses go into running his business. I'll cheerfully let them have the use of the photos. I simply won't allow one to own a part of my life. The musicians should not allow record companies to own parts of theirs.
"LOL -- the couple is the customer. They are not models, if they were the photographer could fire them when they act like idiots and cause him to run 4 hours over, or burn expensive film on shots they'll never sell."
Since they are customers then they own the images. Simple as that. The photographer wants to have his cake and eat it too. Either they get free prints and the photographer owns the image or the CUSTOMER owns his own fricken images. I certainly will make that clear to any such doing personal work for me.
'nuff said :-)
OS X DOEs include the ability to run the older apps via Classic which is basically a virtual machine that runs OS 9. There are many apps from the 7.x era that won't run in this environment but 7.x has been deprecated for over four years. I've seen cheesy educational titles from the early nineties that didn't like 8.x or 9.x much but I don't think that will hurt much.
Other apps made with Apple's Carbon API will execute natively under either OS 9 or OS X. AppleWorks is one such and it looks the same in either OS.
Apple IS thinking of their longstanding user base and have decent answers to the issues you mention.
Prisoners are slave labor. It's bad enough that we have to compete with people in India and Mexico who are willing to work for a fraction of what we get paid for. Others have beat the case FOR this sort of thing to death so I'll only point out that it is quite enough to have to put up with. For all the bitching people do about cheap foreign labor at least they aren't slaves (usually). Prisoners most certainly are. If they don't do this work then their sentences are extended and they can expect harsher treatment. You think YOU'RE powerless in the face of PHB's? At least you can quit and get something better. Not so a prisoner. Also, the wages paid to prisoners for their "real" jobs are vastly lower than what you or I can negotiate in a real interview. Yeah, they're "PAID" alright. Check it out:
t m
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/prison.h
It is hard enough to get and hold a decent job as it is right now. I DO NOT want to compete with slave labor in my own country. Now prisons supplying services for EACH OTHER and lowering the overall cost of the prison system is something I would be for. It doesn't create a demand for slavery.
If this lame name whinging is the best Ogg's detractors can do then it should go like gangbusters. Incidentally, the audio codec is simply Vorbis. Ogg is a container format like Quicktime. In time we will be able to speak of Ogg Theora and in lotsa time Ogg Tarkin. If I'm not totally mistaken it can contain the Speex speech compression codec as well.
The name whinging is really lame. Kleenex most certainly "isn't a word". The name certainly doesn't make me think "something to blow my excess snot into". It ACQUIRED that meaning. Think about it.
Throaty masculine voice:
Football is rigidly timed and the game WILL end even if we have to go to Sudden Death.
Simpering squealy voice:
In Baseball, you don't know when it's gonna end. We might even have to have extra innings.....
George Carlin
We have an educable station that plays Mechanical Universe documentary lectures from the mid eighties. You can read more about those at:
http://www.themechanicaluniverse.com/
Highly recommended. The best demonstration I ever saw on that show involved three light polarizers. The setup was three polarizers on optical stands with a lamp shining through all three. That is, all three in the same orientation so the light shines through. The third is turned through 90 degrees and of course blocks the light of the lamp from the screen. Dr. Goodstein then turns the second middle filter through 45 degrees and almost half the light makes it through the screen. The result is completely counterintuitive and is an excellent and easy macro scale demonstration of quantum principles.
Religious fanatics really did make it be all-gone. The big surprise is that it was Muslims rather than the fundies. Things just won't blow up and disappear either. It'll just look ugly for a thousand years.
No comment on the majority of your post but I would like to clarify one thing:
The fact that 49% (or even, hypothetically, 51%) of its citizens "think the First Amendment goes too far" does not mean that there is sufficient political will to repeal it. The Constitution has safeguards such as a supermajority requirement for precisely such a reason. They work. Deal with it.
If even this country become a dejure plutocracy rather than the defacto one it is now, they wouldn't bother trying to repeal the First Amendment. Instead a cumulative barrage of Executive Orders and court precedents are slowly reducing the scope of the Amendment. It's like you technically have the right to make a copy of any media you've purchased but the DMCA takes it away even if nothing more than ROT-13 protects it. They start with reasonable even necessary limitations like "Don't falsely shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre." and work their way up to things like COINTELPRO. By the time they're done, the First Amendment (and the others) are buried in legal cruft that totally negate their original design principles.
They also don't need to go after everyone who says bad things about Shrub. Some 20 year old know-nothing on Slashdot? Fuhgeddabout it! Someone making real trouble? Let's just have a surprise IRS audit or a little FBI surveillance. With enough laws on the books, EVERYONE is a potential criminal. With intense enough scrutiny, anyone can be destroyed. It isn't necessary to imprison them in a gulag either. Financial and character assassination works just fine. Our so-called leaders learned a long time ago that a frontal assualt on those pesky civil liberties is not necessary.
"Screw your blessed standards and the horse you rode in on. - The standard is what everyone is using, folks."
This is completely unacceptable as long as a single company *cough* Microsoft! *cough* controls that "standard" and is forever making everybody play kludge-catchup. If it takes more more productivity harming browser wars to put an end to this then so be it.
This is a very new port that depends of XFree86 to work. The speed of OO is just fine on Linux and Windows. Give OS X OO a few more months and try it then. A native Quartz version that has no XFree dependency is in the works but that will take some time. There are good reasons why they called it a "Developer Prerelease".
Use a good LAME VBR preset. Even at 192 kbits, there is going to be a lot of wasted storage space and transmission bandwidth. There is no reason to encode dead silence at 192 kbits. I've been using LAME's --r3mix preset and getting 8:1 compression (on average) with excellent quality on my CDs. For crying out loud, VBR has been out for years.
The last cassette deck I had was a dual unit that could autoreverse while recording and copy tapes at double speed. Of course, there's little gotchas that come up like music is still playing when the leader tape comes up and 2x speed quality issues. On the whole, though, it worked and was easy and convienient.
That won't be anytime soon. If they hold to their past conventions the post Doom III engine will have to be out for a year or two. There certainly is nothing that says they HAVE to GPL anything. Let's just be grateful they've released what they have and be nothing but overjoyed if there is more.
www.opencores.org
Better get an FPGA burner and pile of blank chips while you can. Make friends with or become an electronics geek. You'll have to.
You're stuck with realtime speeds loading music on the media. It takes 74 minutes to fill up a disk with 74 minutes worth of tunes. The other problem is that I have home mp3 server with my entire collection on it. No batch copy, no drag 'n' drop just a phono plug. Try me again when I can do a :
/dev/minidisc /mnt/minidisc /mnt/minidisc
mount -t vfat
cp -r tunes/
and fill a disc up in 5 minutes or less.
The newest version doesn't support arbitrary ssl certs either. I use Apache-SSL as a backend to our troubleticket system with a self generated cert. Mac IE is useless for accessing this system. Macs have to use either Mozilla or NS4 to access it.
The wife and I are huge fans of your show but there is one thing we notice from time to time that we've always wondered about. For instance, your country ham recipe specifies that the ham is done when the interior temp hits 140 degrees. However,
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/ham.htm
states that "cook-before-eating hams must reach 160 F to be safely cooked before serving." I know those bad boys have been salt cured but I would still be worried about trichinosis. Your "done" temperatures for meat are often lower than what the food safety people would have them be. This is a long winded way of asking "What is your approach to food safety?" You look pretty healthy to me so I'll assume you know something those government fussbudgets don't but I'd feel better about trying out some of your recipes if I knew what that was.
She is proposing that the labels offer their out-of-print catalogue in a high quality, well organized and correctly labeled open format. I'd LOVE to be able to be able to find high quality obscure jazz tunes on the likes of Gnutella and FastTrack but it just doesn't happen. Even if you do find what you are looking for, it's probably an old 128kbit rip that was made the abominable Xing encoder. Pay a quarter to immediately download a correctly labeled, sanely encoded (HQ LAME VBR preset or 160 avg kbit vorbis) track that won't cut off half way through the download? Just where do I sign up? Something like that beats "free" by a long shot.
Privoxy will let you filter Flash ads and build specific policies for your favorite sites. I basically have a white list of sites I allow Flash from with a default denial of Flash otherwise. Ditto for cookies. I also love their "javascript annoyance" features. If you have a set list of sites you use all the time, Privoxy does a bang up job of making them PITA free.
It has a real nice web based GUI for doing all of this stuff too. I know and love the Mozilla features for doing some of this and they're quicker when surfing. But Privoxy does a far more thorough job and works with any modern browser.
And then there's Spamassassin....yum!
Inoshiro opinined:
This kind of thing, short of FLYING over to their HQ and having a sit in, is the only means you have of expressing yourself.
But I like this a lot better:
This kind of thing, short of FLYING over their HQ and having a shit on, is the only means you have of expressing yourself.
You've just kicked the legs out from under one of Windows' biggest talking points...that is sooooo easy. In a way I suppose it is. Anyone can manage to use a Windows machine for a year or so before the quirks become highly annoying. Getting out of that jam without losing a buncha stuff is far from easy for nontechnical users. Keeping it from becoming highly annoying is well.....highly annoying.
Oh well, if I had mod points I would have modded you up for the link to sysinternals and your lucid description of those utilities. I have to maintain Windows machines at work and appreciate anything that makes it less of a trial.
But you ARE saying it's the job of the software companies to provide the players that the **AAs want. Even if I could "make my own player" something like the SSSCA would be used to throw me in a pound-me-in-the-ass-prison. The **AAs are buying legislation that tilts the level playing field you are presupposing. In the absence of a true free market all of this free market horseshit is just that....horseshit.