Liquid Audio files are scrambled so they can't be freely copied from computer to computer. ... The Liquid Audio files are designed to help labels enforce their copyrights, though, by helping them trace the source of pirated copies.
Notice the excuse used to choose Liquid Audio over some other format though:
The songs will be distributed first by Liquid Audio of Redwood City, Calif., whose audio format provides better sound quality than MP3 files.
All in the best interests of the consumer, apparently. We give you better quality! (though screw you in the process)
...except the one-time cost to buy machines is nothing compared to the recurring payrol.
Yet it's nice to see that there is a school with sufficiently advanced stuff to play games.
Another suggestion - try Total Annihilation. No violence, a tiny bit of strategy, highly competitive, requires patience and perserverance as well as learning to balance things. And plays nicely over the network, even if the computers are not quite bleeding edge at all.
wow, that was interesting. Never heard of that before. The guy seems to be fascinated with the number. Though google doesn't come up with much on the subject (compared to Douglas Adams' 42, for example).
Wonder if Adams just picked the number off the wall, or borrowed it from Lewis Caroll - if you have to pick something random, you might just as well pick something that has some sort of meaning to it.
42 is old. There Earth is pretty small. Here we are talking about something really big. Something like this comes to mind, just on a different scale...
hey, they've got a product that survives 40 degrees below zero. The guys also use Ericsson phones that survive just as much abuse. (I don't work for either company)
I don't mind hearing about a cool gadget that survives in extreme conditions against all odds - that's just impressive.
Hey, if Microsoft sends a small rover on Mars powered by CE, and this thing survives for a week (there is nobody to push "Reset" buttons up there...) - I'll be impressed with them too.
Now I will let the/. audience punish me for what I have just said...
and also because sysadmin is a thankless job. Not to offend anyone, but people never know you exist. And the only time they find out you do exist is when something breaks. And the only reason they find that out is so that can blame you for it, regerdless whether it is your fault or not. And then they forget you exist again. and it goes in an infinite loop
quit_time = false; sysadmin_tolerance_counter = 0; while(!quit_time){
if (everything is OK) continue;
else{
find sysadmin
blame sysadmin
threaten to fire sysadmin
if(sysadmin_tolerance_counter++ > MAX_HUMAN_TOLERANCE){
quit_time = true;
}else{
sysadmin fixes the problem
forget about sysadmin
}
} } sysadmin.GoToCollege(); sysadmin.become(Eng ineer);//or whatever else
yeah, I guess that's a bit like a troll. But just a bit.
Fair use rights? Yes, I've heard of them, they used to exist a few years back. But did you check the state of your fair use rights lately? They are hanging by a thin thread anyway, and are being eroded daily. Check out the attempts to implement copy-protection in all hardware! (your harddrive thinking - "hmmm... that looks like an MP3 file to me... let's delete it, I don't think RIAA allows that...")
You say that if the courts don't rule a certain way they are gonna be replaced by the "people of the United States". You were kidding me, right? People of the USA are in a major state of apathy! Nothing matters to them. Privacy - down the drain! Fair use - oh, who needs that. And if you use keyword 'combatting terrorism' anywhere when you are taking more rights away, it just goes so much smoother now.
Ok, that's a bit off-topic, but you do have to admit that there is hardly another nation that is more apathetic than Americans, simply because they've got the most to lose, and thus would rather sit tight than cause trouble. Aside from EPIC and EFF there isn't even a single group that tries to protect the interests of a citizen. And they have to go against corporations *and* the government. Apparently, no-one cares.
BTW: when was the last time that the courts in this country got replaced by the people? You would probably need to refresh my memory in a major way here because I have trouble remembering history that far back.
yes, i am not a lawyer, yada, yada, rub it in... real democracy... yes, sounds good... fair use... sounds great too... You talk about all those great things, I like them too, and would gladly see them happen. To bad they aren't going to happen unless the public will wake up. And that's not going to happen. Not with the Americans I see today. At least not until they are hurt (financially or otherwise) badly enough to wake up and do something as a people. But then it might be too late.
Because right now we get slapped right and left, and offer no response. It's like prompting someone to slap us again. M$ audits the heck out of everyone, costing fortune regardless whether you are compliant or not - and no-one except the victims care. Government listens to your ocnversations/reads your email - everyone applauds (heck, we are preventing terrorism, right?). Sony sells you a CD that kills your imac - everyone is fine with that - we need to fight pirates, whatever the cost. I can patent moving my mouse in a circular motion, and make you license that if you ever need to move it like that - your suffer from unfairness, but everyone agrees - we need to protect IP.
well, that's really off-topic now. I just feel very sad about how grim things look now in the US, and your post just prompted me to say just that. By the way, it was very much on-topic, I think.
'cause Elcomsoft thought they could do the same (minus the scanning part) and they were wrong. I don't think you need to copy an electronic version to be a pirate. You can scan a paper copy and become one.
I haven't tried it myself (I obviously know very little about the matter altogether), but it seems to fit the description of the original problem pretty well. Doesn't look like quite a finished product yet, but, nevertheless, very interesting.
don't keep your hopes high. If you get a CPU with intend to upgrade it... chances are it'll never happen. By the time you might think about upgrading, it'll be so obsolete, that you will have trouble finding a chip that will fit into your motherboard socket (or slot).
That said, the same is true about cases - you are hoping to recycle your case - I doubt you'll be able to do that. Not only Athlons need somewhat clean power, but also motherboards have a whole slew of different flavours of form factors and designs. Chances of you findning a board that will fit the cases you already have are anywhere between very slim to none, IMNSHO.
That aside, you definitely CAN do better than $600 per system goal, barring countless hours of spend time.
or breaking this. Or this (a few others come to mind too).
Heck, just with crypto breaking you can probably find over a hundred different algorithms that are utilized in breaking crypto only. This way we can get to a thousand in no time, we just need more paranoid developers...;)
No, that's not that funny. The real kicker is the attorney representing Bernie Shifman (quoted from spambag.net):
Bernie Shifman left another voice mail message for me today (this time entirely in English) informing me that he's taking me court, represented by the law firm of "Tupoy, Durak, and Bolvan", Attorneys At Law.
For those poor non-Russian speakers... 'Tupoy', 'Durak', and 'Bolvan' are the three synonyms translated into English as 'idiot'! I bet the guy owns that law firm too!
Yes, I am hoping for an extra karma point for 'Funny' or maybe even 'Informative'. Karma is good. But even without it it's nice to share the fun with the 99% poor/.'ers souls who are illiterate in Russian.
I do not care about what you said above (though I agree with you). The part that I really like is... your sig. I'm probably going to borrow it for myself, if yo don't mind...
That must have been CTF. Ok, it is not an organization, but I need a good big database to keep the track of all my frags and flags in CTF.
I bet they gave it to Id.:)
:) A lot of money for him... As for me... I am saving my $100 for the ride in the near future. Well, maybe not $100, let's say $150, just to be on the safe side - that really depends on how much of this you believe.
...is what breaks autoconf and makes it often unusable.
Look at the PHP project. They use autoconf. Yes, it (autoconf) works most of the time pretty good for PHP.
However, you can use only certain versins of it because the older versions do not have the necessary features, and the new ones break BC or just plain have bugs that prevent PHP from building with that new version, so you are often locked in to a certain couple versions of autoconf, which is one of the main problems autoconf is supposed to fix in the first place.
It does contribute a bit to developer frustration, but, in the long run, it is much better than most other things I have seen so far, so it's probably not that bad of a choice after all...
and, in addition to that, the ETA at Murmansk is Wednesday, not Monday:
The Kursk was hoisted under the Giant 4 at 17.30 hours Dutch time. Transport to Murmansk at a speed of four nautical miles per hour will commence within two hours of the Kursk being firmly secured to the pontoon. The Giant is expected to arrive at Murmansk with the Kursk on Wednesday
(http://www.koersksalvage.com/nieuws.asp?id=80)
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yep...:(
Liquid Audio files are scrambled so they can't be freely copied from computer to computer.
...
The Liquid Audio files are designed to help labels enforce their copyrights, though, by helping them trace the source of pirated copies.
Notice the excuse used to choose Liquid Audio over some other format though:
The songs will be distributed first by Liquid Audio of Redwood City, Calif., whose audio format provides better sound quality than MP3 files.
All in the best interests of the consumer, apparently. We give you better quality! (though screw you in the process)
...except the one-time cost to buy machines is nothing compared to the recurring payrol.
Yet it's nice to see that there is a school with sufficiently advanced stuff to play games.
Another suggestion - try Total Annihilation. No violence, a tiny bit of strategy, highly competitive, requires patience and perserverance as well as learning to balance things. And plays nicely over the network, even if the computers are not quite bleeding edge at all.
wow, that was interesting. Never heard of that before. The guy seems to be fascinated with the number. Though google doesn't come up with much on the subject (compared to Douglas Adams' 42, for example).
Wonder if Adams just picked the number off the wall, or borrowed it from Lewis Caroll - if you have to pick something random, you might just as well pick something that has some sort of meaning to it.
42 is old. There Earth is pretty small. Here we are talking about something really big. Something like this comes to mind, just on a different scale...
hey, they've got a product that survives 40 degrees below zero. The guys also use Ericsson phones that survive just as much abuse. (I don't work for either company)
/. audience punish me for what I have just said...
I don't mind hearing about a cool gadget that survives in extreme conditions against all odds - that's just impressive.
Hey, if Microsoft sends a small rover on Mars powered by CE, and this thing survives for a week (there is nobody to push "Reset" buttons up there...) - I'll be impressed with them too.
Now I will let the
my windows said:
Installing Metacity... done!
Thank you for using apt-get.
Please reboot for changes to take effect.
Now, while I am rebooting, can I see a screenshot or two? Please? I want to see before I try.
and also because sysadmin is a thankless job. Not to offend anyone, but people never know you exist. And the only time they find out you do exist is when something breaks. And the only reason they find that out is so that can blame you for it, regerdless whether it is your fault or not. And then they forget you exist again. and it goes in an infinite loop
g ineer); //or whatever else
quit_time = false;
sysadmin_tolerance_counter = 0;
while(!quit_time){
if (everything is OK) continue;
else{
find sysadmin
blame sysadmin
threaten to fire sysadmin
if(sysadmin_tolerance_counter++ > MAX_HUMAN_TOLERANCE){
quit_time = true;
}else{
sysadmin fixes the problem
forget about sysadmin
}
}
}
sysadmin.GoToCollege();
sysadmin.become(En
----
kinda crude, but the picture is right
yeah, I guess that's a bit like a troll. But just a bit.
Fair use rights? Yes, I've heard of them, they used to exist a few years back. But did you check the state of your fair use rights lately? They are hanging by a thin thread anyway, and are being eroded daily. Check out the attempts to implement copy-protection in all hardware! (your harddrive thinking - "hmmm... that looks like an MP3 file to me... let's delete it, I don't think RIAA allows that...")
You say that if the courts don't rule a certain way they are gonna be replaced by the "people of the United States". You were kidding me, right? People of the USA are in a major state of apathy! Nothing matters to them. Privacy - down the drain! Fair use - oh, who needs that. And if you use keyword 'combatting terrorism' anywhere when you are taking more rights away, it just goes so much smoother now.
Ok, that's a bit off-topic, but you do have to admit that there is hardly another nation that is more apathetic than Americans, simply because they've got the most to lose, and thus would rather sit tight than cause trouble. Aside from EPIC and EFF there isn't even a single group that tries to protect the interests of a citizen. And they have to go against corporations *and* the government. Apparently, no-one cares.
BTW: when was the last time that the courts in this country got replaced by the people? You would probably need to refresh my memory in a major way here because I have trouble remembering history that far back.
yes, i am not a lawyer, yada, yada, rub it in... real democracy... yes, sounds good... fair use... sounds great too... You talk about all those great things, I like them too, and would gladly see them happen. To bad they aren't going to happen unless the public will wake up. And that's not going to happen. Not with the Americans I see today. At least not until they are hurt (financially or otherwise) badly enough to wake up and do something as a people. But then it might be too late.
Because right now we get slapped right and left, and offer no response. It's like prompting someone to slap us again. M$ audits the heck out of everyone, costing fortune regardless whether you are compliant or not - and no-one except the victims care. Government listens to your ocnversations/reads your email - everyone applauds (heck, we are preventing terrorism, right?). Sony sells you a CD that kills your imac - everyone is fine with that - we need to fight pirates, whatever the cost. I can patent moving my mouse in a circular motion, and make you license that if you ever need to move it like that - your suffer from unfairness, but everyone agrees - we need to protect IP.
well, that's really off-topic now. I just feel very sad about how grim things look now in the US, and your post just prompted me to say just that. By the way, it was very much on-topic, I think.
and consult your lawyer
'cause Elcomsoft thought they could do the same (minus the scanning part) and they were wrong. I don't think you need to copy an electronic version to be a pirate. You can scan a paper copy and become one.
But then again, IANAL...
the link is interesting though misspelled. Correct would be:a re/legacy/fir_echo_canceller/
http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech/softw
I haven't tried it myself (I obviously know very little about the matter altogether), but it seems to fit the description of the original problem pretty well. Doesn't look like quite a finished product yet, but, nevertheless, very interesting.
well, it wasn't first post for starters - there were a few before me.
But it is a really good question why it is redundant.
I made a statement, I asked a question, no-one agreed/disagreed/answered... Gotta wonder...
Moderators are interesting people...
wouldn't the echo cancellation itself propogate over time and create artifacts in the sound? Or am I totally misunderstanding the issue altogether?
don't keep your hopes high. If you get a CPU with intend to upgrade it... chances are it'll never happen. By the time you might think about upgrading, it'll be so obsolete, that you will have trouble finding a chip that will fit into your motherboard socket (or slot).
That said, the same is true about cases - you are hoping to recycle your case - I doubt you'll be able to do that. Not only Athlons need somewhat clean power, but also motherboards have a whole slew of different flavours of form factors and designs. Chances of you findning a board that will fit the cases you already have are anywhere between very slim to none, IMNSHO.
That aside, you definitely CAN do better than $600 per system goal, barring countless hours of spend time.
... or, since you are already a "struggling" dot-com, this will end your struggles :) (or :( - you choose)
hey, good point :)
too bad i won't be able to login to get download the new version:(
/>telnet mybox.com
Trying 192.168.1.1...
Connected to mybox.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
Kernel 2.4.4 on an i686
login:user
password:
Last login: Wed Apr 03 2002 15:32:15 -0800
You have new mail.
Sorry, you copy of Bash has expired.
Connection closed by foreign host.
/>
Heck, just with crypto breaking you can probably find over a hundred different algorithms that are utilized in breaking crypto only. This way we can get to a thousand in no time, we just need more paranoid developers... ;)
...which is true. (or do you need Win95?)
yeah, the comment is lame. I just wanted to join in and tell you that I am exceptionally amused by your logical conclusion.
Bernie Shifman left another voice mail message for me today (this time entirely in English) informing me that he's taking me court, represented by the law firm of "Tupoy, Durak, and Bolvan", Attorneys At Law.
For those poor non-Russian speakers... 'Tupoy', 'Durak', and 'Bolvan' are the three synonyms translated into English as 'idiot'! I bet the guy owns that law firm too!Yes, I am hoping for an extra karma point for 'Funny' or maybe even 'Informative'. Karma is good. But even without it it's nice to share the fun with the 99% poor /.'ers souls who are illiterate in Russian.
I do not care about what you said above (though I agree with you). The part that I really like is... your sig. I'm probably going to borrow it for myself, if yo don't mind...
That must have been CTF. Ok, it is not an organization, but I need a good big database to keep the track of all my frags and flags in CTF. I bet they gave it to Id. :)
:) A lot of money for him... As for me... I am saving my $100 for the ride in the near future. Well, maybe not $100, let's say $150, just to be on the safe side - that really depends on how much of this you believe.
...is what breaks autoconf and makes it often unusable.
Look at the PHP project. They use autoconf. Yes, it (autoconf) works most of the time pretty good for PHP.
However, you can use only certain versins of it because the older versions do not have the necessary features, and the new ones break BC or just plain have bugs that prevent PHP from building with that new version, so you are often locked in to a certain couple versions of autoconf, which is one of the main problems autoconf is supposed to fix in the first place.
It does contribute a bit to developer frustration, but, in the long run, it is much better than most other things I have seen so far, so it's probably not that bad of a choice after all...
:)
For that matter, it was also covered on APOD today. :)
and, in addition to that, the ETA at Murmansk is Wednesday, not Monday: The Kursk was hoisted under the Giant 4 at 17.30 hours Dutch time. Transport to Murmansk at a speed of four nautical miles per hour will commence within two hours of the Kursk being firmly secured to the pontoon. The Giant is expected to arrive at Murmansk with the Kursk on Wednesday (http://www.koersksalvage.com/nieuws.asp?id=80)