It's been covered in many web publications back in 2002.
Dynamic range problem is real though. This is why you whould avoid mainstream, "radio-ready" artists and bands. Another excellent reason to buy indie music.
If you want to see how bad the problem is, get yourself a copy of the latest Foo Fighters CD and listen to the album with decent headphones. (Grado sr-80/125 or Seinheisers of equal quality). It's just noise.
Seems insecure compared to my job circa 1998. It was a traditional brick and mortar company sandwiched in between 2 dotcom startups on top and bottom floors. The management thought it would be an excellent idea to implement Orwellian concepts throught the damn place with magnetic cards which included access to restrooms and pretty much every room throughout the building. Few months later it turned out these fucks from HR were tracking employees who would take excessive breaks by going through the usage log checking against the ID.
3-digit passes are a blessing compared to that nightmare.
The way I see it, with movie piracy, biggest losers here are non-action flicks, comedy, and romance movies.
Personally, I cannot see how one could watch an inferior rip of Matrix Reloaded or T3 on his computer monitor or through Divx on a TV. The quality just isn't there anymore. You're not experiencing the picture and audio they way it was intended. When a studio throws hundreds of millions at some flick which has a decent plot, then $10/ticket is a no-brainer. In case of downloading the movie you are just cheating yourself.
For dialogue based movies which do not feature explosions, sophisticated camerawork, etc it would be fair to say they will suffer more piracy than action-based ones.
Due to this inevitable trend, studios usually have no choice but to upping the action movie production quota just to be more profitable in the box office.
The thing that irks me with the market today is the lack of diversity (below each title it shows how many screens the movie is playing on). Every theatre features the same pictures in proximity of 20 miles from each other. (HEY! Sort of like RIAA's with music distribution). The smaller, more thought out movies are not even on the radar. Take Man on The Train for example. I live in Hollywood, CA and would have to drive 300 miles north (Merced, CA) to watch this movie. That's the closest. But finding a theatre playing Legally Blonde 2 or Bruce Almighty would be easier than finding a Starbucks around here.
Then, we have the international opening dates sometimes several months away from each other. Hey MPAA, get a fucking clue. This isn't the 1920's anymore. When I talk to my friends in Holland, I should automatically assume they have the same roaster of movies playing at their theatres. We are connected globally nowdays. Bumping release dates of movies hurts the cause and encourages piracy.
So in conclusion, music sharing = death of 1 hit/1 track wonders movie piracy = death of dialogue based movies.
I read an article 2 days ago regarding Dismayed Americans who contemplate moving to Canada because the States had become too conservative and there was a quote which stood out from the rest..
"Canada has an opportunity to define itself as a leader," Hanley said. "In some ways, it's now closer to American ideals than America is."
And it's more evident with the recent news that we keep hearing how Canada is moving forward while the States are slipping into regress by way of draconian laws and regulations a la DMCA, Super-DMCA, Media Consolidation, etc.
I guess that if you can't find a good way to make money, just patent something, and sue the hell out of everybody...
Which is really depressing, considering there are firms whose sole purpose is to beat the game and patent inevitable technology ahead of everyone else, which in turn, hampers technological progress.
I know you're being funny, but this "why bother?" attitude on the part of the citizenry is exactly what has been exploited by the corporations (RIAA, big oil and autos, pharmaceuticals and insurance, ad nauseum) and their congressional lapdogs to put us in our current position.
There is a good Russian saying (crude translation): "One soldier on the battlefield is not an army"
What you see here is tyranny of the majority. Being a minority rationalist, one day I had to face the fact that I cannot change this nation and make everyone apply reason to their logic. It's a futile enterprise to try and salvage the sinking ship. People who think there is still a chance to turn this clusterfuck into something viable are outright fools.
Don't you realize that RIAA is not a separate entity? It's an important wheel inside of the capitalist system we have in the States. P2Ps are a threat to this ecosystem and must be stopped at all costs from their perspective. Capitalist free market is a self-adjusting mechanism. It will purge these foreign objects by all means necessary to restore order. Whether successful or not, the fact still remains that you're trying to be a rebel in an environment where your ideology simply does not belong.
It's too late - don't even bother. The machines have taken over, and there is little citizens can do at this point. All we need is a good bunker to hide in.
Minority Report might not be far off... But the scary part is we do not have the technology to identify anyone worth a damn
Haven't you heard? Hilary Rosen is a pre-cog. She is submerged into the water and drops names of people who might think of downloading stuff off the net.
Why do you think she's stepping down as the CEO at the end of the year?
Jails are already running substantially over budget and overpopulated in many states. They are releasing actual felons and lots of non-violent drug offenders prematurely due to this fact.
Locking up some poor schmuck as a felon for sharing his shitty 128kbps rips of 50cent would not only define anti-reason but also would be unfeasable from the economic standpoint. Either you have to lock up half of your population or be unable to enforce the law. This is just a losing position this bill has, and was put forward for symbolic purposes only.
Sort of like that time when Rangel introduced a bill to reinstate the draft to prove a point in the wake of Iraqi War.
There is no such place as Slovania. There is Slovenia and Slovakia. There are also Pennsylvania and Transylvania; maybe you were thinking about those. But there is no Slovania. Sorry.
Sometime back, I pointed out how Google seems to have a soft corner for articles and sites that affect big firms such as Microsoft.
"Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention. While the sources of the news vary in perspective and editorial approach, their selection for inclusion is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology. While this may lead to some occasionally unusual and contradictory groupings, it is exactly this variety that makes Google News a valuable source of information on the important issues of the day."source
Remove your tinfoil hat please. There is no conspiracy. Google News features articles from Newsmax, Electronic Intifadah, Islam Online, Al Jazeera, World Net Daily, etc. If there was any filtering going on, these sites would have been off the radar long time ago.
Also, Slashdot is not a professional journalistic site. It's a News-based comment board where people come to share their opinion. In a perfect world Slashdot doesn't even belong on Google News.
based on estimated loses DirectTV and Echostar may have incurred had Frazier been able to sell his devices.
And why should we feel sorry for Mr. Frazier? The man probably tried to sell his findings for a profit. I say good riddance. I would feel more sympathetic towards him have he GPL'ed the decryption method.
First benchmarks? This is a joke. He didn't even get to test any of the G5's, nor bench'd them.
DMN has obtained SPEC benchmark data from AMD
Right! He obtained them.
It's a biased opinion piece. Now I'm aware that Apple kick-started the G5 with lots of smoke, which is the nature of the business in the computer hardware world, but to discount these numbers just because of some hype during WWDC presentation is silly.
How about we wait for the REAL benchmars from Anandtech and put away some speculation from webmasters who can't even hire anyone older than 14y/olds to design their websites?
Slashdot Mirror
Is there a segment or a part in the computing industry that Microsoft doesn't want to control with half-done software?
Who the hell visits usenet for news anymore? What are they trying to do.. make downloading pirated material easier?
It's been covered in many web publications back in 2002.
Dynamic range problem is real though. This is why you whould avoid mainstream, "radio-ready" artists and bands. Another excellent reason to buy indie music.
If you want to see how bad the problem is, get yourself a copy of the latest Foo Fighters CD and listen to the album with decent headphones. (Grado sr-80/125 or Seinheisers of equal quality). It's just noise.
Daring Fireball is an excellent and very informative blog.
Whoever submitted the article calling John G. (heh, Memento!) a biased person, just because he covers macs, should go purchase himself a fucking clue.
Not counting that there will be numerious attempts to install Linux on it.
Check back next week for the project on sourceforge.
http://linux-on-camera.sourceforge.net
"The journey of 1000 miles begins with the first refund for unused Windows." - Lao Tzu
Just like German porn.
So if someone intercepts the signal and cracks the encryption to extract people's private images, do we call those people WarDriving Cyber-Papparazi?
Seems insecure compared to my job circa 1998. It was a traditional brick and mortar company sandwiched in between 2 dotcom startups on top and bottom floors. The management thought it would be an excellent idea to implement Orwellian concepts throught the damn place with magnetic cards which included access to restrooms and pretty much every room throughout the building. Few months later it turned out these fucks from HR were tracking employees who would take excessive breaks by going through the usage log checking against the ID.
3-digit passes are a blessing compared to that nightmare.
Apparently yesterday someone leaked few concept art pictures of QIV and iD sent out bunch of C&D letters.
Anyway, you can view the images here
The way I see it, with movie piracy, biggest losers here are non-action flicks, comedy, and romance movies.
Personally, I cannot see how one could watch an inferior rip of Matrix Reloaded or T3 on his computer monitor or through Divx on a TV. The quality just isn't there anymore. You're not experiencing the picture and audio they way it was intended. When a studio throws hundreds of millions at some flick which has a decent plot, then $10/ticket is a no-brainer. In case of downloading the movie you are just cheating yourself.
For dialogue based movies which do not feature explosions, sophisticated camerawork, etc it would be fair to say they will suffer more piracy than action-based ones.
Due to this inevitable trend, studios usually have no choice but to upping the action movie production quota just to be more profitable in the box office.
The thing that irks me with the market today is the lack of diversity (below each title it shows how many screens the movie is playing on). Every theatre features the same pictures in proximity of 20 miles from each other. (HEY! Sort of like RIAA's with music distribution). The smaller, more thought out movies are not even on the radar. Take Man on The Train for example. I live in Hollywood, CA and would have to drive 300 miles north (Merced, CA) to watch this movie. That's the closest. But finding a theatre playing Legally Blonde 2 or Bruce Almighty would be easier than finding a Starbucks around here.
Then, we have the international opening dates sometimes several months away from each other. Hey MPAA, get a fucking clue. This isn't the 1920's anymore. When I talk to my friends in Holland, I should automatically assume they have the same roaster of movies playing at their theatres. We are connected globally nowdays. Bumping release dates of movies hurts the cause and encourages piracy.
So in conclusion,
music sharing = death of 1 hit/1 track wonders
movie piracy = death of dialogue based movies.
12" PB has WiFi built-in? what?
Last time I checked you had to purchase the card separately. WiFi is only included with 17", isn't it?
And it's more evident with the recent news that we keep hearing how Canada is moving forward while the States are slipping into regress by way of draconian laws and regulations a la DMCA, Super-DMCA, Media Consolidation, etc.
Which is really depressing, considering there are firms whose sole purpose is to beat the game and patent inevitable technology ahead of everyone else, which in turn, hampers technological progress.
The whole system is fucked beyond recognition.
There is a good Russian saying (crude translation): "One soldier on the battlefield is not an army"
What you see here is tyranny of the majority. Being a minority rationalist, one day I had to face the fact that I cannot change this nation and make everyone apply reason to their logic. It's a futile enterprise to try and salvage the sinking ship. People who think there is still a chance to turn this clusterfuck into something viable are outright fools.
Don't you realize that RIAA is not a separate entity? It's an important wheel inside of the capitalist system we have in the States. P2Ps are a threat to this ecosystem and must be stopped at all costs from their perspective. Capitalist free market is a self-adjusting mechanism. It will purge these foreign objects by all means necessary to restore order. Whether successful or not, the fact still remains that you're trying to be a rebel in an environment where your ideology simply does not belong.
It's too late - don't even bother. The machines have taken over, and there is little citizens can do at this point. All we need is a good bunker to hide in.
Haven't you heard? Hilary Rosen is a pre-cog. She is submerged into the water and drops names of people who might think of downloading stuff off the net.
Why do you think she's stepping down as the CEO at the end of the year?
Jails are already running substantially over budget and overpopulated in many states. They are releasing actual felons and lots of non-violent drug offenders prematurely due to this fact.
Locking up some poor schmuck as a felon for sharing his shitty 128kbps rips of 50cent would not only define anti-reason but also would be unfeasable from the economic standpoint. Either you have to lock up half of your population or be unable to enforce the law. This is just a losing position this bill has, and was put forward for symbolic purposes only.
Sort of like that time when Rangel introduced a bill to reinstate the draft to prove a point in the wake of Iraqi War.
The Slovak part was wrong, I agree. But what's your beef with Slovenians?
Oh no?
What's this?
Just for the reference, here's the map of Slovakia.
The confusing part is that both Slovanians and Slovaks refer to their countries as Slovensko.
"Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention. While the sources of the news vary in perspective and editorial approach, their selection for inclusion is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology. While this may lead to some occasionally unusual and contradictory groupings, it is exactly this variety that makes Google News a valuable source of information on the important issues of the day." source
Remove your tinfoil hat please. There is no conspiracy. Google News features articles from Newsmax, Electronic Intifadah, Islam Online, Al Jazeera, World Net Daily, etc. If there was any filtering going on, these sites would have been off the radar long time ago.
Also, Slashdot is not a professional journalistic site. It's a News-based comment board where people come to share their opinion. In a perfect world Slashdot doesn't even belong on Google News.
I doubt it, but what I would like to know is how you Overclock these Voting Machines.
OC for a better democracy!
Your joke isn't far off. Kazaa was written in Estonia.
There is MonitorerX Pro
And why should we feel sorry for Mr. Frazier? The man probably tried to sell his findings for a profit. I say good riddance. I would feel more sympathetic towards him have he GPL'ed the decryption method.
Right! He obtained them.
It's a biased opinion piece. Now I'm aware that Apple kick-started the G5 with lots of smoke, which is the nature of the business in the computer hardware world, but to discount these numbers just because of some hype during WWDC presentation is silly.
How about we wait for the REAL benchmars from Anandtech and put away some speculation from webmasters who can't even hire anyone older than 14y/olds to design their websites?