This is not the first time prerelease music has received the glue treatment. Gil Kaufman, a freelance journalist in Cincinnati, said he owns a prerelease copy of Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" that is glued into an Aiwa player -- an Aiwa analog cassette deck. That makes MP3 conversions a bit more difficult.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this on Ebay. Some diehard Radiohead fan would love it, even if just for the kitsch value...
The YOU online updater in Yast has been set up to automatically download and install the patch for a coupla months now. Of course, it only applies to the default 0.98 Mozilla version included with the distro, but for those who haven't upgraded, it's there.
Actually, the ATRAC compression is pretty transparent, and not nearly as lossy as mp3. Check out minidisc.org for more info. Through really good headphones, I have a hard time telling the difference between a cd and a minidisc recording of the same cd. And here's the catch: for classical music, the minidisc recording actually sounds better! The ATRAC compression adds a bit of warmth to the low-frequency strings and woodwinds.
I once had my house hit by lightning, which fried the Windows box upstairs. Motherboard and power supply were toast. The owner decided it'd be cheaper just to buy a new computer (it was one of those emachines things), but wanted to recover the data from the hard drive, if possible.
I opened the case to my Suse box, plugged up the drive, added a line to fstab and rebooted. I was able to mount the drive, pull the data off, and burn it to a cd. The whole process took, oh, forty minutes.
That's another, albeit more painful way, to do recovery, but it works. Last time I checked, Windows won't even acknowledge the existence of ext2 or similar filesystems...
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I'm writing as one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have made you a very rich man.
We grew up on the Star Wars trilogy. It was a part of our childhood. We've spent untold millions of our hard-earned dollars on your franchise, and for the last few years, you've been ripping us off, knowing that we'll put up with it.
The Phantom Menace proved that you can no longer write or direct. It was a let-down and a betrayal. We waited twenty-five years for a new movie, and all we got was this stupid Jar-Jar t-shirt. We're starting to feel the burn.
When you announced that we'd have to wait until sometime around 2005 for DVDs for the original trilogy, we grumbled but didn't scream. Now we're screaming. Do not screw with the original trilogy any more!
You milked us good with the "Special Editions" once, and now you're talking about doing it again. Don't. Please.
This is what we want:
1) The original trilogy, NOT the special editions, on DVD.
2) A cleaned-up print and remastered soundtrack.
3) If nothing else, at least the documentaries for each film included on each disc.
How hard could this be? If the studios can crank out dubious "collector's editions" for every summer movie that comes down the pipe, you can do this. You know we'll pay whatever ridiculous price you charge for it, even if we're beginning to feel shafted.
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Sure, you'd weigh less in India...
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...but you'd weigh more when you got back! It's a proven fact that, among other things, the metabolism slows down in low-gravity environments.
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erik
I ran a record store for several years, and we had a great copy-protection scheme in place-we didn't allow consumers to return opened product. This policy exists specifically to prevent folks from copying something and returning it. Once you opened it, you kept it. As far as I know, most retailers still stick to this policy.
The main reason for this was that the distributors only let us return opened product at a penalty, if they let us return it at all. We'd replace defectives for the same title, but that was the limit of our liability.
Of course, now that the labels are sending out intentionally defective product, I'm glad I'm no longer in the business. These are the same labels that promised us that cd's would be less than $10 within a few years after the arrival of the format.
Thing is, one of the ugly side effects pointed out in the letter is the fact that the fallout from this whole thing unfairly places Mr. Retailer right in the middle. The label doesn't have to listen to consumers' complaints. Grr...
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erik
Frank Zappa once suggested that, if we were serious about putting drug dealers out of business, we should change the color of cash. Everyone would have to turn in their cash to have it converted, and we'd get a good look at just who kept huge reserves of cash laying around: drug dealers, Microsoft, etc. It'd also make it harder for folks like that to dodge taxes.
I noticed that Neil Diamond's "America" is on the list. You know the words: "They come to America." Repeat 644 times. I find this tremendously ironic, not just because it's an odd choice, but because my sister teaches English as a second language at a school where most of the enrolled students are Arabic or Persian, and she was playing that song for them just yesterday.
I've been frequenting the site for ages, and in fact, a theme I found there became my impetus for switching to WindowMaker and never looking back. The old site was a great resource, a novel but ridiculously useful idea, and for me, it became one heck of a time-sink and full-time hobby. Nothing this valuable exists for the commercial OS'es, and I wouldn't be surprised if it converted a bunch of folks to Linux/BSD.
Here's wishing everyone the best of luck. BTW, I like the new "peachy" color scheme:-)
I mean, c'mon..."The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi?" They ALL sound like cliched Saturday morning serials, which is exactly what Star Wars always has been. It's just that now we're (trumpets please) adults, and we expect, "Episode II-the Grapes of Sith," or "The Midichlorian Candidate."
Go back and watch the asteroid scenes in ESB. What was that? I'll tell you: it was every hackneyed car chase scene ever filmed, except this time with space ships. It didn't have to be deep, it just had to be incredibly cool. And it is.
Not to give anything away, but from what I've heard, we get to see Anakin learn the long-distance choke thing, which he spends the last fifteen minutes of the movie practising on Jar Jar...
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I'm surprised I haven't seen this on Ebay. Some diehard Radiohead fan would love it, even if just for the kitsch value...
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The YOU online updater in Yast has been set up to automatically download and install the patch for a coupla months now. Of course, it only applies to the default 0.98 Mozilla version included with the distro, but for those who haven't upgraded, it's there.
Actually, the ATRAC compression is pretty transparent, and not nearly as lossy as mp3. Check out minidisc.org for more info. Through really good headphones, I have a hard time telling the difference between a cd and a minidisc recording of the same cd. And here's the catch: for classical music, the minidisc recording actually sounds better! The ATRAC compression adds a bit of warmth to the low-frequency strings and woodwinds.
I once had my house hit by lightning, which fried the Windows box upstairs. Motherboard and power supply were toast. The owner decided it'd be cheaper just to buy a new computer (it was one of those emachines things), but wanted to recover the data from the hard drive, if possible.
I opened the case to my Suse box, plugged up the drive, added a line to fstab and rebooted. I was able to mount the drive, pull the data off, and burn it to a cd. The whole process took, oh, forty minutes.
That's another, albeit more painful way, to do recovery, but it works. Last time I checked, Windows won't even acknowledge the existence of ext2 or similar filesystems...
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NASA still publishes semi-regular status reports on both Voyagers here.
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Dear George,
I'm writing as one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have made you a very rich man.
We grew up on the Star Wars trilogy. It was a part of our childhood. We've spent untold millions of our hard-earned dollars on your franchise, and for the last few years, you've been ripping us off, knowing that we'll put up with it.
The Phantom Menace proved that you can no longer write or direct. It was a let-down and a betrayal. We waited twenty-five years for a new movie, and all we got was this stupid Jar-Jar t-shirt. We're starting to feel the burn.
When you announced that we'd have to wait until sometime around 2005 for DVDs for the original trilogy, we grumbled but didn't scream. Now we're screaming. Do not screw with the original trilogy any more!
You milked us good with the "Special Editions" once, and now you're talking about doing it again. Don't. Please.
This is what we want:
1) The original trilogy, NOT the special editions, on DVD.
2) A cleaned-up print and remastered soundtrack.
3) If nothing else, at least the documentaries for each film included on each disc.
How hard could this be? If the studios can crank out dubious "collector's editions" for every summer movie that comes down the pipe, you can do this. You know we'll pay whatever ridiculous price you charge for it, even if we're beginning to feel shafted.
--
...but you'd weigh more when you got back! It's a proven fact that, among other things, the metabolism slows down in low-gravity environments.
--
erik
The main reason for this was that the distributors only let us return opened product at a penalty, if they let us return it at all. We'd replace defectives for the same title, but that was the limit of our liability.
Of course, now that the labels are sending out intentionally defective product, I'm glad I'm no longer in the business. These are the same labels that promised us that cd's would be less than $10 within a few years after the arrival of the format.
Thing is, one of the ugly side effects pointed out in the letter is the fact that the fallout from this whole thing unfairly places Mr. Retailer right in the middle. The label doesn't have to listen to consumers' complaints. Grr...
--
erik
Frank Zappa once suggested that, if we were serious about putting drug dealers out of business, we should change the color of cash. Everyone would have to turn in their cash to have it converted, and we'd get a good look at just who kept huge reserves of cash laying around: drug dealers, Microsoft, etc. It'd also make it harder for folks like that to dodge taxes.
I noticed that Neil Diamond's "America" is on the list. You know the words: "They come to America." Repeat 644 times. I find this tremendously ironic, not just because it's an odd choice, but because my sister teaches English as a second language at a school where most of the enrolled students are Arabic or Persian, and she was playing that song for them just yesterday.
Here's wishing everyone the best of luck. BTW, I like the new "peachy" color scheme:-)
Go back and watch the asteroid scenes in ESB. What was that? I'll tell you: it was every hackneyed car chase scene ever filmed, except this time with space ships. It didn't have to be deep, it just had to be incredibly cool. And it is.
Not to give anything away, but from what I've heard, we get to see Anakin learn the long-distance choke thing, which he spends the last fifteen minutes of the movie practising on Jar Jar...
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The movie was "2010," an unjustly neglected classic. My big question is Triton. You've got a whole slew of organic matter there...