I have been saying this for years now, The music industry had its wake up call years ago that people WANT digital delivery of music. They have failed and failed repeatedly to bring such a system. Finally, Apple has taken a step in the right direction. It has been shown that people will sacrifice quality for convenience (witness the unbounded success of lossy algorithms such as mp3 and ogg).
I may be alone, but i believe that people would spend considerable money to download music. First, the price must be right. 99 cents for a song sounds pretty damn good to me. 50 cents sounds even better.
As a lifelong music collector with over 50 crates of vinyl albums (no idea how many that is) and at least 100 gigabytes of mp3's, I can say that If such a system was in place, I would gladly pay to purchase digital music. I am not trying to cheat the system when I download music, I am trying to avoid ripping the vinyl that I have purchased. Vinyl must be ripped in real time. I could never rip my whole collection. It is just impossible.
My parents would pay for downloaded music. My sister would pay for downloaded music. My friends would.....
RIAA why are you wasting time going after these people. Present the world with a legitimate alternative and draw the line between criminals and law abiding downloaders.
Piracy hasn't hurt microsoft one bit. There will always be pirates and theives. You are not trying to sell product to them. The lord knows that I would rather pay for a.flac file than download a crap ass mp3.
Yet here we are, 5 years down the road from napster, and a computer company has taken the initiative that the music industry is frighened to death of.
This is just further evidence that no matter how great the art form is, the BUSINESS of music SUCKS!
In the immortal words of Q-Tip Industry Rule #5080 : Record company people are shady.
Are you kidding me? I have been using mp3 players for years, and I can absolutely hear the difference. Most rips these days are 192 full stereo, and there is always noticible loss or slight distortion. I have heard the same thing with higher bitrate rips as well.
Wow to be able to write one memo and receive millions of dollars in free publicity and advertising is pure genius. High profile executives take note. Ballmer is working the system quite well.
1. Insert appropriate quip here 2. Punctuation mark repeated thrice 3. Receive monetary benefits
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Where have you been? IRC is still teeming with xdcc's and fserves that are serving releases that haven't hit the stores yet. Group releases are the best mp3s out there, ripped with pride into 192 bitrate full stereo, without any glitches. They are neatly packed into tar files with.sfv checksum files, named in a standard format and properly ID3 tagged.
There are plenty of channels that serve specialty genres, punk, soul, hiphop, etc... The catch is that most of the xdccs are on r00ted boxes, and there is no question of the dubious nature of what transpires within the electronic space of IRC.
Of course any mp3 that I download I have purchased in some form or another. I collect vinyl records, and ripping those in real time SUCKS.
When the music industry gets their shit together (how long have we been waiting?) and will sell us a song for 50 cents, then all this nonsense will go away.
My father is a broadcast engineer / electronic whiz and he used to take me out to Quinn's Electronics out by the Oakland Airport. That place was like a playground to me! Some fond memories are: the 40 in 1 pong game that was just a circuit board with controllers dangling from it. It was the first home video game console ever possibly. My dad hooked it up to our TV as is, just a circuit board sitting on top of the set.
We got an old teletype from quinn's too, and pops wrote the drivers for it for our TRS-80. It held us over until the price on an epson dot matrix came down. I was handing in papers on yellow teletype paper that i had to cut into pages.
When we needed extra money, Quinn had bags and bags of chips, probably 555 timers. We breadboarded a chip tester, and went through huge bags of IC's sorting out the working chips. God knows how much he paid us but it wasn't worth it.
Don't you as a network admin want to know what kind of traffic is happening on your network? Even if you don't block traffic (like UCB), you want to shape it. These F*ing kids think peer to peer is a right and will fill up your OC3 with p2p traffic in a second. I have seen many T1s reduced to 56k modems by too many people running p2p clients on a corporate network. Just imagine thousands of students all hungry for the latest music, pron, and vcd/divx releases. Not only that, but courier and release groups highly covet cracked computers on.edu networks for distribution purposes. I have seen hundreds if not thousands of xdcc bots on irc originating at.edu's. People also use their dorm room computers for this purpose.
I would be worried about any university not closely monitoring all traffic. This isn't really a privacy issue.
(of course i never download anything or infringe on anyone's copyright. merely observations.)
Well, editor, that may be your opinion, but to us gamers first person shooters are most 1337 game there is. I don't have 2 weeks to play a simulation or turn based game, or figure out a plot based walker, but I do have half an hour at the end of the work day to frag my IT buddies and then turn it off and walk away. My passion for the past year has been bzflag, the 100% open source multiplayer game made in the mold of battle zone. It is a little slower and more deliberate than the action packed quake or unreal, but I found that it takes real skill to keep your frag/death count positive.
bzflag handle: xxxl still mourning the death of games.astercity
I read that sample chapter. It seems useless in relation to the topic. They list appletalk and netinfo as the legacy services, and then proceed to go into great detail on how to setup netinfo, not discussing any of the others at all... Why would we want to use the legacy directory service?
I wouldn't really consider what Danny does House anymore, its not techno either, in fact i consider techno to be used incorrectly most of the time. Techno's original designation was for the sound coming out of detroit in the late 80's, a similar tempo to house, but completely instrumental and more 'bleepy' and electronic than house. i'd call Danny's set hi-nrg house derivative club music with a twist of trance.
I have heard about the Bhangra parties at S.O.B's, I had the misfortune of hearing some of this music in a taxicab a while ago, the driver told me that this was one of the most popular artists. Every song was a sample of some american song that was previously an underground hit.
lowercase seems derivative but in another way, instead of ambient synthesized sounds, the emphasis is on sampled sounds of real world noises. I can't imagine any of this music settling in my head, and say, humming the tune as i walk down the street.
lowercase is getting on my nerves already....
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And its only 6:am PST, the folks at google labs are going to have a busy morning ahead of them hehehehe. Wonder if they get in at 9:00? Quite likely the pagers are going off all over the valley right now .
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I have been saying this for years now, The music industry had its wake up call years ago that people WANT digital delivery of music. They have failed and failed repeatedly to bring such a system. Finally, Apple has taken a step in the right direction. It has been shown that people will sacrifice quality for convenience (witness the unbounded success of lossy algorithms such as mp3 and ogg).
.flac file than download a crap ass mp3.
I may be alone, but i believe that people would spend considerable money to download music. First, the price must be right. 99 cents for a song sounds pretty damn good to me. 50 cents sounds even better.
As a lifelong music collector with over 50 crates of vinyl albums (no idea how many that is) and at least 100 gigabytes of mp3's, I can say that If such a system was in place, I would gladly pay to purchase digital music. I am not trying to cheat the system when I download music, I am trying to avoid ripping the vinyl that I have purchased. Vinyl must be ripped in real time. I could never rip my whole collection. It is just impossible.
My parents would pay for downloaded music. My sister would pay for downloaded music. My friends would.....
RIAA why are you wasting time going after these people. Present the world with a legitimate alternative and draw the line between criminals and law abiding downloaders.
Piracy hasn't hurt microsoft one bit. There will always be pirates and theives. You are not trying to sell product to them. The lord knows that I would rather pay for a
Yet here we are, 5 years down the road from napster, and a computer company has taken the initiative that the music industry is frighened to death of.
This is just further evidence that no matter how great the art form is, the BUSINESS of music SUCKS!
In the immortal words of Q-Tip
Industry Rule #5080 : Record company people are shady.
Are you kidding me? I have been using mp3 players for years, and I can absolutely hear the difference. Most rips these days are 192 full stereo, and there is always noticible loss or slight distortion. I have heard the same thing with higher bitrate rips as well.
Wow to be able to write one memo and receive
millions of dollars in free publicity and advertising is pure genius. High profile executives take note. Ballmer is working the system quite well.
1. Insert appropriate quip here
2. Punctuation mark repeated thrice
3. Receive monetary benefits
Where have you been? IRC is still teeming with xdcc's and fserves that are serving releases that haven't hit the stores yet. Group releases are the best mp3s out there, ripped with pride into 192 bitrate full stereo, without any glitches. They are neatly packed into tar files with .sfv checksum files, named in a standard format and properly ID3 tagged.
There are plenty of channels that serve specialty genres, punk, soul, hiphop, etc... The catch is that most of the xdccs are on r00ted boxes, and there is no question of the dubious nature of what transpires within the electronic space of IRC.
Of course any mp3 that I download I have purchased in some form or another. I collect vinyl records, and ripping those in real time SUCKS.
When the music industry gets their shit together (how long have we been waiting?) and will sell us a song for 50 cents, then all this nonsense will go away.
The crack pipe is always free
My father is a broadcast engineer / electronic whiz and he used to take me out to Quinn's Electronics out by the Oakland Airport. That place was like a playground to me! Some fond memories are: the 40 in 1 pong game that was just a circuit board with controllers dangling from it. It was the first home video game console ever possibly. My dad hooked it up to our TV as is, just a circuit board sitting on top of the set.
We got an old teletype from quinn's too, and pops wrote the drivers for it for our TRS-80. It held us over until the price on an epson dot matrix came down. I was handing in papers on yellow teletype paper that i had to cut into pages.
When we needed extra money, Quinn had bags and bags of chips, probably 555 timers. We breadboarded a chip tester, and went through huge bags of IC's sorting out the working chips. God knows how much he paid us but it wasn't worth it.
And of course everybody loved the Bear.
Don't you as a network admin want to know what kind of traffic is happening on your network? Even if you don't block traffic (like UCB), you want to shape it. These F*ing kids think peer to peer is a right and will fill up your OC3 with p2p traffic in a second. I have seen many T1s reduced to 56k modems by too many people running p2p clients on a corporate network. Just imagine thousands of students all hungry for the latest music, pron, and vcd/divx releases. .edu networks for distribution purposes. I have seen hundreds if not thousands of xdcc bots on irc originating at .edu's. People also use their dorm room computers for this purpose.
Not only that, but courier and release groups highly covet cracked computers on
I would be worried about any university not closely monitoring all traffic. This isn't really a privacy issue.
(of course i never download anything or infringe on anyone's copyright. merely observations.)
Well, editor, that may be your opinion, but to us gamers first person shooters are most 1337 game there is.
I don't have 2 weeks to play a simulation or turn based game, or figure out a plot based walker, but I do have half an hour at the end of the work day to frag my IT buddies and then turn it off and walk away.
My passion for the past year has been bzflag, the 100% open source multiplayer game made in the mold of battle zone. It is a little slower and more deliberate than the action packed quake or unreal, but I found that it takes real skill to keep your frag/death count positive.
bzflag handle: xxxl
still mourning the death of games.astercity
Beware of evil popup from above link.
I read that sample chapter. It seems useless in relation to the topic. They list appletalk and netinfo as the legacy services, and then proceed to go into great detail on how to setup netinfo, not discussing any of the others at all... Why would we want to use the legacy directory service?
maybe he just got on the subway or a elevator...
and he was definitely asking for 'it'
I wouldn't really consider what Danny does House anymore, its not techno either, in fact i consider techno to be used incorrectly most of the time. Techno's original designation was for the sound coming out of detroit in the late 80's, a similar tempo to house, but completely instrumental and more 'bleepy' and electronic than house. i'd call Danny's set hi-nrg house derivative club music with a twist of trance.
I have heard about the Bhangra parties at S.O.B's, I had the misfortune of hearing some of this music in a taxicab a while ago, the driver told me that this was one of the most popular artists. Every song was a sample of some american song that was previously an underground hit.
lowercase seems derivative but in another way, instead of ambient synthesized sounds, the emphasis is on sampled sounds of real world noises.
I can't imagine any of this music settling in my head, and say, humming the tune as i walk down the street.
lowercase is getting on my nerves already....
And its only 6:am PST, the folks at google labs are going to have a busy morning ahead of them hehehehe.
Wonder if they get in at 9:00? Quite likely the pagers are going off all over the valley right now .