The stuff you are quoting is about the "inititiatove to counter this," out of the Free Software Foundation. However, I suspect much of the elbow grease needed for such efforts is currently directed toward fighting new patent legislation. An understandable priority.
If you want to discuss educational pricing, Dell offers a 2.5 Ghz desktop at just over $300.
Not to mention that if I were a computer educator, the first week of class would involved putting together a few pc's using bulk-purchased motherboards, cases, drives and memory; at a ratio of 5 students per PC, that's maybe $50 per student, likely less; in 5 years you have a PC for each student (second week would be installing Linux). You doubt a high-schooler could do this? And maybe learn a bit more than he would at a Mac screen?
I mostly agree. But apocrypha has its worth as apocrypha, so I wouldn't agree we need to "stop relying on the quote to support the idea." Simply recognizing the story as apocrypha should be sufficient, unless further support for the tale can be turned up. Hawking's "according to some accounts" phrase does appropriately place the story into the realm of legend.
If a first-hand source can be found, great (though we agree it's not likely). As Hawking's version is perpetuated in the best-known of his works, it seems that will remain the "official apocryphal" version.
This distinction is important, as it seems unlikely for any means to emerge that will overcome these pixel-level distortions.
One wonders whether this will lead to a legal distinction between lossily compressed images and others. While audiophiles have long been ape for lossless compression, not as much a need has been felt for graphics. Where do lossless graphic compression efforts stand? Is this an area where a proprietary standard might lead to big $$$?
I was on staff of a rock magazine, word came back from U2 management that the boys were quite tiffed that the editor had called them 'sexy' in a magazine cover line. This was circa 1985.
I wasn't "using it as evidence." I was offering Hawking's version of the story.
If Hawking must present this story as "according to some accounts," it's pretty likely apocryphal, and I doubt there will ever be a more "official" version than Hawking's.
Now that he no longer believes that you can pop off to alternate universes in your black-hole-powered DeLorean, he may no longer buy into Time Travel, either.
"In 1928 an Indian graduate student, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington, an expert on general relativity. (According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, 'I am trying to think who the third person is.')"
The above is from Hawking's "A Brief History of Time."
Guess it wasn't a best-seller atound here...
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Your speculation would be interesting if you, or anyone else, could point to an instance of anyone's work losing "half its profits" from such activity.
It hasn't happened yet, and I doubt that it ever will.
What I meant to convey is that, in a digital Seller/Consumer relationship, the only thing the Seller can provide to the consumer is duplication rights (the right to copy the seller's property, the right to "copy" the digital object into the computing device that fulfils its intended purpose, the right to a backup copy).
It follows that a "consumer," in the normal course of things, has no right to transfer these limited duplication rights.
I obviously misphrased my point. Without a right to duplicate, the consumer can't even receive his digital purchase.
The show was fined for very specific violations, such as a discussion of oral sex, that do not occur on evey show (yes its mentioned every show but this was a rather detailed conversation). People do tend to "graze" off the radio dial, often without knowledge of which station they've settled on, especially while driving. So a listener could be quite unwary.
Anyway, Stern recently added some stations, so he's now reaching about as many people as before, including about most of the market he reached through Clear Channel -- including the notoriously crucial state of Florida, where Stern is pushing hard to get his listeners (who LOVE him) to register and vote Kerry.
So it could be that picking on Stern may be the tiny factor that swings the election. Do ya think Kerry will let us say fuck on the Teevee?
If any rights are tied up, it's with Emusic, which distributes VBR mp3's of their catalog.
Emusic used to have a TMBG "boutique" which also featured special free bonuses (no purchase necessary) every month.
They still have an extensive catalog of TMBG, where you can get Canstantinople, Birdhouse in your Soul and Particle Man (all of them on Severe Tire Damage but there's no more boutique, which may be part of the reason TMBG wanted to move on.
According to EncSpot, Emusic is not doing shabby encodes:
Birdhouse in your Soul.mp3
(bitrate graph defeated by LAMEness filter - now that's ironic...or is it apt?)
Type: mpeg 1 layer III
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Bad Last Frame: no
Encoder: Lame 3.92
Lame Header:
Quality: 78
Version String: Lame 3.92
Tag Revision: 0
VBR Method: vbr-old / vbr-rh
Lowpass Filter: 19000
Psycho-acoustic Model: nspsytune
Safe Joint Stereo: yes
nogap (continued): no
nogap (continuation): no
ATH Type: 4
ABR Bitrate: Unknown
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Stereo Mode: Joint Stereo
Unwise Settings Used: no
Input Frequency: 44.1kHz
--[ EncSpot Console 2.0 ]--[ http://www.guerillasoft.com ]--
It's not 256kbps, but my dsl is slow enough that I prefer Emusic's compact VBR downloads. The 3 minute song is 4.66 megabytes, about 50% larger than the 128kbps file they used to distribute.
Anyway, this new TMBG "boutique" is no more "direct from the artist" than Emusic was. The people behind this site are Back Office Music, the same guys who developed the Primus "Boutique." All they've done is change digital labels, really, though I think the "personal service" they're getting from BOM is better for them.
The guy who filed the story admits this is old news -- dating all the way back to January. The current news item is an "update," though I don't know or care what's been updated. I think it's the price announcement ($100).
If they don't want to admit the role of screeners, then why did they ban the distribution of screeners last fall amid a great deal of press? The ban was seen by small independents as a move by big studios to monopolize the Oscars (since screeners were the only way to get their stuff seen); the little guys sued. End of ban.
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How can the supposed police website have a copy of the "stolen database?"
Here's the FSF link for reporting violations. I doubt that there is very much manpower at the other end of that email address, though.
Not to mention that if I were a computer educator, the first week of class would involved putting together a few pc's using bulk-purchased motherboards, cases, drives and memory; at a ratio of 5 students per PC, that's maybe $50 per student, likely less; in 5 years you have a PC for each student (second week would be installing Linux). You doubt a high-schooler could do this? And maybe learn a bit more than he would at a Mac screen?
If a first-hand source can be found, great (though we agree it's not likely). As Hawking's version is perpetuated in the best-known of his works, it seems that will remain the "official apocryphal" version.
One wonders whether this will lead to a legal distinction between lossily compressed images and others. While audiophiles have long been ape for lossless compression, not as much a need has been felt for graphics. Where do lossless graphic compression efforts stand? Is this an area where a proprietary standard might lead to big $$$?
Please, someone mod this either "troll" or "funny" (I advocate the latter), lest others take it seriously.
Just a tad controlling.
If Hawking must present this story as "according to some accounts," it's pretty likely apocryphal, and I doubt there will ever be a more "official" version than Hawking's.
The above is from Hawking's "A Brief History of Time."
Guess it wasn't a best-seller atound here...
It hasn't happened yet, and I doubt that it ever will.
It follows that a "consumer," in the normal course of things, has no right to transfer these limited duplication rights.
I obviously misphrased my point. Without a right to duplicate, the consumer can't even receive his digital purchase.
The bits on the disk can't legally be sold without the physical transfer of the CD.
Sez you!
"Consumers," by definition, don't own those.
here. It's an mp3.
Anyway, Stern recently added some stations, so he's now reaching about as many people as before, including about most of the market he reached through Clear Channel -- including the notoriously crucial state of Florida, where Stern is pushing hard to get his listeners (who LOVE him) to register and vote Kerry.
So it could be that picking on Stern may be the tiny factor that swings the election. Do ya think Kerry will let us say fuck on the Teevee?
Emusic used to have a TMBG "boutique" which also featured special free bonuses (no purchase necessary) every month.
They still have an extensive catalog of TMBG, where you can get Canstantinople, Birdhouse in your Soul and Particle Man (all of them on Severe Tire Damage but there's no more boutique, which may be part of the reason TMBG wanted to move on.
According to EncSpot, Emusic is not doing shabby encodes:
Birdhouse in your Soul.mp3
(bitrate graph defeated by LAMEness filter - now that's ironic...or is it apt?)
Type: mpeg 1 layer III
Bitrate: 203
Mode: joint stereo
Frequency: 44100 Hz
Frames: 7351
Length: 00:03:12
Av. Reservoir: 73
Emphasis: none
Scalefac: 29.8
Bad Last Frame: no
Encoder: Lame 3.92
Lame Header:
Quality: 78
Version String: Lame 3.92
Tag Revision: 0
VBR Method: vbr-old / vbr-rh
Lowpass Filter: 19000
Psycho-acoustic Model: nspsytune
Safe Joint Stereo: yes
nogap (continued): no
nogap (continuation): no
ATH Type: 4
ABR Bitrate: Unknown
Noise Shaping: 2
Stereo Mode: Joint Stereo
Unwise Settings Used: no
Input Frequency: 44.1kHz
--[ EncSpot Console 2.0 ]--[
http://www.guerillasoft.com ]--
It's not 256kbps, but my dsl is slow enough that I prefer Emusic's compact VBR downloads. The 3 minute song is 4.66 megabytes, about 50% larger than the 128kbps file they used to distribute.
Anyway, this new TMBG "boutique" is no more "direct from the artist" than Emusic was. The people behind this site are Back Office Music, the same guys who developed the Primus "Boutique." All they've done is change digital labels, really, though I think the "personal service" they're getting from BOM is better for them.
Looky here.
I'll tell you why -- 'cause HPAC doesn't decode to IBM.
Besides, what computer does NOT use "Algorithms?"
The word is redundant in the name of any computer. But it was forced in, to allow the IBM/HAL wordplay.
[Whine]But AC Clarke would never lie to me, even if it meant getting sued[/whine]
He lied, grow up and get over it.
If they don't want to admit the role of screeners, then why did they ban the distribution of screeners last fall amid a great deal of press? The ban was seen by small independents as a move by big studios to monopolize the Oscars (since screeners were the only way to get their stuff seen); the little guys sued. End of ban.