You put in your name and address, and they put you on the "blocked" list, distributed to the companies quarterly for 3 years. That'll cover about 80% anyway, they say.
There already is a tax on blank media in the States. 5 cents per disc, I believe. In Canada, it's now 22, up from 5 cents last year. It's scheduled to be revised in 2003 (?). How much you want to bet it'll go up?
Remember to allocate space for sleeping if your event spans more than one day because even the most hardcore gamer cannot play for 24 hours straight.
Poofters! Wimps! It doesn't get fun until after you've been up for 24 hours straight. Then you turn the volume wayyyy up, and shotgun about 4 cans of Jolt... Blammo! Good God, I'm hit! The monsters, they're all around meeee
I have about 20 MP3's, mostly of stuff I can't find anywhere else or songs I wouldn't buy. Those are all CD's that I bought. And yes, they're in a database (Music Library- www.wensoftware.com).
Just for curiosity's sake, here are the albums I have in my collection that are over 70 minutes long.
Sepultura
- Chaos A.D.
- 01:10:02
Bruce Cockburn
- Live
- 01:10:07
Nick Warren Amsterdam CD 2 Of 2
- Global Underground: 018
- 01:10:26
Pearl Jam
- 15.06.2000 Katowice - Disc 1
- 01:10:29
Ozzy Osbourne
- Speak of the Devil
- 01:10:32
Ramones
- All The Stuff (And More) Volume One
- 01:10:34
AC/DC
- Live
- 01:10:36
Soundgarden
- Superunknown
- 01:10:36
Iron Maiden
- Live After Death
- 01:10:49
Roger Daltrey
- A Celebration The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
- 01:10:53
The Tragically Hip
- Live Between Us
- 01:10:57
Tori Amos
- Boys For Pele
- 01:10:57
Nine Inch Nails
- Children Of The Night
- 01:11:04
Metallica
- Garage Inc. - Disc 2
- 01:11:12
Iron Maiden
- The X Factor
- 01:11:21
Tool
- Undertow
- 01:11:22
Madonna
- Something to Remenber
- 01:11:26
Henry Rollins
- Human Butt - Disc 1
- 01:11:33
Pearl Jam
- Live On Two Legs
- 01:11:40
Beethoven
- The Complete Symphonies - Vol 1
- 01:11:40
ZZ Top
- The ZZ Top SixPack - Disc 1
- 01:11:42
Various Artists
- Sub Pop 200
- 01:11:43
Alice In Chains
- MTV Unplugged
- 01:11:50
Jr. Gone Wild
- Simple Little Wish
- 01:12:02
Chatterbox
- Despite
- 01:12:02
Iggy Pop
- American Caesar
- 01:12:02
Metallica
- Wherever We May Roam - Disc 2
- 01:12:05
Dio
- Magica
- 01:12:09
KYUSS
- And The Circus Leaves Town
- 01:12:16
Metallica
- Live Long Island 20/12/91
- 01:12:17
Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra
- The Hours Between Night + Day
- 01:12:25
Metallica
- Metallica Latino `93 - Disc 2
- 01:12:35
Rage Against The Machine
- Revolution
- 01:12:35
Talking Heads
- Sand in the Vaseline - Disc 1
- 01:12:38
Sepultura
- Roots
- 01:12:38
Pearl Jam
- Katowice, Poland 06.16.00
- 01:12:40
ZZ Top
- Tejas / El Loco
- 01:12:48
Hawkwind
- Spirit Of The Age
- 01:12:48
Various Artists
- The Saint - Motion Picture Soundtrack
- 01:12:49
U2
- Rattle And Hum
- 01:12:51
Various Artists
- Atlantic Blues
- 01:12:55
Roger Waters
- Amused To Death
- 01:12:57
Philip Glass
- Einstein On The Beach - Disc 3
- 01:13:02
U2
- Rubber Ball And Liquor
- 01:13:05
Pearl Jam
- Katowice, Poland 06.16.00
- 01:13:10
Bob Marley
- Songs of Freedom
- 01:13:13
Ozzy Osbourne
- TRIBUTE
- 01:13:14
Wynton Marsalis Septet
- Citi Movement (Griot New York) - Disc 1
- 01:13:14
Underworld
- Second Toughest In The Infants
- 01:13:15
Nick Warren in Amsterdam Disc 1 of 2
- Global Underground 018
- 01:13:18
Type O Negative
- October Rust
- 01:13:19
Rainbow
- Finyl Vinyl
- 01:13:22
Oingo Boingo
- Boingo
- 01:13:24
DJ Nemesis
- Album Title
- 01:13:24
ICE T
- O.G. - Original Gangster
- 01:13:25
Guns N' Roses
- Live Era '87-'93 - Disc 2
- 01:13:29
Metallica
- Dying Time is Here [Live in San Francisco] CD1
- 01:13:30
Judas Priest
- Metal Works '73-'93 - Disc 2
- 01:13:32
Metallica
- Roaring Through Europe - Disc 1
- 01:13:34
Smashing Pumpkins
- Adore
- 01:13:46
Metallica
- Wherever We May Roam - Disc 1
- 01:13:46
Paul Oakenfold
- Global Underground 007 - Paul Oakenfold - New York (Disc 1)
- 01:13:47
Henry Rollins
- Human Butt - Disc 2
- 01:13:48
ICE T
- VI: Return Of The Real
- 01:13:51
Madonna
- The Immaculate Collection
- 01:13:58
Van Halen
- Live: Right Here, Right Now - Disc 1
- 01:13:58
Type O Negative
- Bloody Kisses
- 01:13:59
Sasha
- Global Underground 009 - San Francisco
- 01:14:03
Various Artists
- Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors - Disc 2
- 01:14:05
Various Artists
- Slinky Tech-nique - Disk 2
- 01:14:05
Various Artists
- Plastic Compilation Volume 2
- 01:14:08
Sasha
- Global Underground 009 - San Francisco
- 01:14:09
U2
- Salome - The Axtung Beibi Outtakes
- 01:14:11
Judas Priest
- Metal Works '73-'93 - Disc 1
- 01:14:11
Tool
- Salival
- 01:14:12
Iron Maiden
- Live At Donington - Disc 1
- 01:14:13
Various Artists
- Slinky Tech-nique - Disk 1
- 01:14:15
Black Sabbath
- We Sold Our Soul For Rock'n'Roll
- 01:14:18
Red Hot Chili Peppers
- blood sugar sex magik
- 01:14:20
Type O Negative
- World Coming Down
- 01:14:22
Judas Priest
- Priest - Live!
- 01:14:23
GWAR
- Carnival Of Chaos
- 01:14:24
Soulfly
- Primitive (Digi-Pak)
- 01:14:24
Metallica
- Infernal Gods - Disc 2
- 01:14:26
Brian Eno
- The Drop
- 01:14:30
Dvorak
- Basic Dvorak
- 01:14:32
Dvorak
- Slavonic Dances
- 01:14:43
Various Artists
- Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors - Disc 1
- 01:15:05
Dream Theater
- Awake
- 01:15:16
Dvorak
- Complete Music for Violin and Piano
- 01:15:18
The Who
- Tommy
- 01:15:24
Bob Marley
- Songs of Freedom
- 01:15:24
Adam Sandler
- What The Hell Happened To Me?
- 01:15:30
Madonna
- Erotica
- 01:15:42
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Electric Ladyland
- 01:15:49
ICE T
- Home Invasion
- 01:15:55
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
- No Quarter
- 01:15:56
Blue Oyster Cult
- Career Of Evil - The Metal Years
- 01:15:57
Guns N' Roses
- Use Your Illusion II
- 01:16:18
Metallica
- Re-Load
- 01:16:24
Guns N' Roses
- Use Your Illusion I
- 01:16:27
Beethoven
- The Complete Symphonies - Vol 1
- 01:16:43
Metallica
- Live Shit: Binge & Purge - Disc 1
- 01:16:53
Metallica
- All Hell Breaks Loose - Disc 1
- 01:16:58
Pantera
- Official Live:101 Proof
- 01:17:02
Deep Purple
- Made In Japan
- 01:17:12
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai
- G3 Live In Concert
- 01:17:14
Dvorak
- Basic Dvorak
- 01:17:19
Michael Jackson
- Dangerous
- 01:17:27
Scorpions
- Hurricane Rock
- 01:17:28
eurythmics
- GREATEST HITS
- 01:17:32
Various Artists
- Platipus Records Volume One
- 01:17:36
Delerium
- Semantic Spaces
- 01:17:41
Ozzy Osbourne
- The Ozzman Cometh - Disk 1
- 01:17:43
Tool
- Aenima
- 01:17:46
Various Artists
- Masters Of Misery (Black Sabbath Tribute)
- 01:17:47
The Cult
- Pure Cult - For Rockers, Ravers, Lovers & Sinners
- 01:17:55
Metallica
- Infernal Gods - Disc 1
- 01:18:07
Franz Schubert
- String Quintet and Quartets - Disc 2
- 01:18:08
Various Artists
- South Park - Chef Aid
- 01:18:08
Bob Marley
- Songs of Freedom
- 01:18:08
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
- A Dangerous Meeting
- 01:18:12
Iron Maiden
- Best Of The Beast
- 01:18:25
Judas Priest
- Rocka Rolla/Sad Wings Of Destiny
- 01:18:32
Various Artists
- Platipus - Volume 1
- 01:18:34
Franz Schubert
- String Quintet and Quartets - Disc 1
- 01:18:56
Tool
- Lateralus
- 01:19:17
Metallica
- Load
- 01:19:18
Scorpions
- World Wide Live
- 01:19:43
The Sisters of Mercy
- Some Girls Wander By Mistake
- 01:19:58
Well, I sent myself an encrypted message. I'm assuming it's encrypted anyway, since it crashes Opera (5.12) every single time I try to open it. If that ain't security through obscurity, I don't know what is!
They probably want to make an army of hackers so they can use them against Bin Laden, when he finally gets his Hotmail address with the backdoored PGP.
The question now is, who will be interested in it? It is true that it will make Pentium 4 much more affordable due to its PC133 SDRAM support, but its lackluster memory performance impacts Pentium 4 so badly, that it makes AMD's Athlon an even more attractive solution than it already is. I personally would consider everyone as close to crazy if he should choose Pentium 4 plus i845 and PC133 SDRAM.
If you do get an Athlon, be sure and cool it properly. They'll keep processing till they burst into flames...:)
Which is less than a second without a good heat sink, apparently...:)
Tom's Hardware lit some on fire for a test. I'm glad he does shit like that, so I don't have to.
A herd, as everyone knows, is composed of creatures deprived of speech and with fairly weak sphincters. It is a proven fact, moreover, that in times of confusion, the herd prefers servitude to disorder. Which is why those who behave like crazed nanny goats do not have leaders but great goatish assholes at their head. Something in this species must be contagious, since it is so common in the human herd to find someone who can lead the masses to the edge of the reef and, once there, make them jump into the water. Unless he decides to destroy a civilization, which is something he does fairly frequently.
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
This isnt going to take away libterties from anyone It would just allow the government to do what theyre supposed to do anyway.
Which is what? Protect you from bad men? Make sure you don't speed? Make sure you pay your parking fines or you can't buy food?
The hijacked planes were not taken over by people with fake ID and submachine guns. They got on the plane legally, and hijacked the planes with knives. How is national ID going to help that?
White text on a beige background, so bring your spectacles. Oh, and you need JS on. Or you could just type in
http://www.beachsidetech.com/perfection1.htm
perfection2.htm etc.
"Though Blizzard Entertainment is still hard at work polishing up its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, for an early 2002 release..."
Uh huh. "Highly anticipated" is right. Oh look! The vapourware awards from 2000! [wired] Coming in at Number 6, Warcraft III. I love Blizzard (mostly), and I think they do some great stuff, but until it's shipped, it doesn't exist.
What is bitrate? What bitrate are EMusic's MP3s encoded at? Bitrate is the number of bits per second used in the encoding process. A higher encoding rate usually means a larger size file, but higher quality sound. EMusic currently encodes its MP3s at 128 Kbps.
Sounds like a good service, but I was hoping for something a bit better than that. I don't mind paying for music, but the quality has to be there.
How does EMusic protect against piracy?
Very simple -- we trust our customers. We believe that if downloadable music is presented in an inexpensive and flexible way, most consumers will do the right thing.
It's a lot easier to trust your customers when you're offering 128K MP3s. Question is, space limitations or piracy worries anyway? I realize 180,000 songs takes up some room, but that's their problem, not mine. It would be nice to have different ranges too- maybe 64K to demo the song, and 320K if you actually want it. But I can't help but think that offering the songs in low quality is some kind of indication of fear of mass trading once the songs are released to the world.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll take one if you've got an extra. I never found any in Canada.
http://www.the-cma.org/consumers/dnm_dnc.html
The Canadian Marketing Association
You put in your name and address, and they put you on the "blocked" list, distributed to the companies quarterly for 3 years. That'll cover about 80% anyway, they say.
Heh. I just looked up "do not call registry" in Google, to see if there was something similar here. Google brings up:
;NewYork>Government
Categories:
Society>Crime>SexOffenses>Newsand Articles
Regional>NorthAmerica>UnitedStates>
And wastes your batteries all the while? Fuggedaboutit, I'll stick to my powder puff mirror, thanks.
Gimme 30 of 'em and some cat5 and I'd blow that box out of the water! Dream machine schream machine.
What will make us happy? MS rolling over and... oh, besides that? Umm... Free as in beer? Beer makes us happy.
There already is a tax on blank media in the States. 5 cents per disc, I believe. In Canada, it's now 22, up from 5 cents last year. It's scheduled to be revised in 2003 (?). How much you want to bet it'll go up?
Remember to allocate space for sleeping if your event spans more than one day because even the most hardcore gamer cannot play for 24 hours straight.
Poofters! Wimps! It doesn't get fun until after you've been up for 24 hours straight. Then you turn the volume wayyyy up, and shotgun about 4 cans of Jolt... Blammo! Good God, I'm hit! The monsters, they're all around meeee
Try here (I just searched for "Klipsch").
Also available: Klipsch Promedia 2.1 Speakers - $299.95
powering a Beowulf cluster of anything?
" Dance, you silly little freak, dance!"
I have about 20 MP3's, mostly of stuff I can't find anywhere else or songs I wouldn't buy. Those are all CD's that I bought. And yes, they're in a database (Music Library- www.wensoftware.com).
Just for curiosity's sake, here are the albums I have in my collection that are over 70 minutes long.
Sepultura - Chaos A.D. - 01:10:02Bruce Cockburn - Live - 01:10:07
Nick Warren Amsterdam CD 2 Of 2 - Global Underground: 018 - 01:10:26
Pearl Jam - 15.06.2000 Katowice - Disc 1 - 01:10:29
Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil - 01:10:32
Ramones - All The Stuff (And More) Volume One - 01:10:34
AC/DC - Live - 01:10:36
Soundgarden - Superunknown - 01:10:36
Iron Maiden - Live After Death - 01:10:49
Roger Daltrey - A Celebration The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who - 01:10:53
The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us - 01:10:57
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele - 01:10:57
Nine Inch Nails - Children Of The Night - 01:11:04
Metallica - Garage Inc. - Disc 2 - 01:11:12
Iron Maiden - The X Factor - 01:11:21
Tool - Undertow - 01:11:22
Madonna - Something to Remenber - 01:11:26
Henry Rollins - Human Butt - Disc 1 - 01:11:33
Pearl Jam - Live On Two Legs - 01:11:40
Beethoven - The Complete Symphonies - Vol 1 - 01:11:40
ZZ Top - The ZZ Top SixPack - Disc 1 - 01:11:42
Various Artists - Sub Pop 200 - 01:11:43
Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged - 01:11:50
Jr. Gone Wild - Simple Little Wish - 01:12:02
Chatterbox - Despite - 01:12:02
Iggy Pop - American Caesar - 01:12:02
Metallica - Wherever We May Roam - Disc 2 - 01:12:05
Dio - Magica - 01:12:09
KYUSS - And The Circus Leaves Town - 01:12:16
Metallica - Live Long Island 20/12/91 - 01:12:17
Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra - The Hours Between Night + Day - 01:12:25
Metallica - Metallica Latino `93 - Disc 2 - 01:12:35
Rage Against The Machine - Revolution - 01:12:35
Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline - Disc 1 - 01:12:38
Sepultura - Roots - 01:12:38
Pearl Jam - Katowice, Poland 06.16.00 - 01:12:40
ZZ Top - Tejas / El Loco - 01:12:48
Hawkwind - Spirit Of The Age - 01:12:48
Various Artists - The Saint - Motion Picture Soundtrack - 01:12:49
U2 - Rattle And Hum - 01:12:51
Various Artists - Atlantic Blues - 01:12:55
Roger Waters - Amused To Death - 01:12:57
Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach - Disc 3 - 01:13:02
U2 - Rubber Ball And Liquor - 01:13:05
Pearl Jam - Katowice, Poland 06.16.00 - 01:13:10
Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom - 01:13:13
Ozzy Osbourne - TRIBUTE - 01:13:14
Wynton Marsalis Septet - Citi Movement (Griot New York) - Disc 1 - 01:13:14
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants - 01:13:15
Nick Warren in Amsterdam Disc 1 of 2 - Global Underground 018 - 01:13:18
Type O Negative - October Rust - 01:13:19
Rainbow - Finyl Vinyl - 01:13:22
Oingo Boingo - Boingo - 01:13:24
DJ Nemesis - Album Title - 01:13:24
ICE T - O.G. - Original Gangster - 01:13:25
Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93 - Disc 2 - 01:13:29
Metallica - Dying Time is Here [Live in San Francisco] CD1 - 01:13:30
Judas Priest - Metal Works '73-'93 - Disc 2 - 01:13:32
Metallica - Roaring Through Europe - Disc 1 - 01:13:34
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore - 01:13:46
Metallica - Wherever We May Roam - Disc 1 - 01:13:46
Paul Oakenfold - Global Underground 007 - Paul Oakenfold - New York (Disc 1) - 01:13:47
Henry Rollins - Human Butt - Disc 2 - 01:13:48
ICE T - VI: Return Of The Real - 01:13:51
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 01:13:58
Van Halen - Live: Right Here, Right Now - Disc 1 - 01:13:58
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses - 01:13:59
Sasha - Global Underground 009 - San Francisco - 01:14:03
Various Artists - Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors - Disc 2 - 01:14:05
Various Artists - Slinky Tech-nique - Disk 2 - 01:14:05
Various Artists - Plastic Compilation Volume 2 - 01:14:08
Sasha - Global Underground 009 - San Francisco - 01:14:09
U2 - Salome - The Axtung Beibi Outtakes - 01:14:11
Judas Priest - Metal Works '73-'93 - Disc 1 - 01:14:11
Tool - Salival - 01:14:12
Iron Maiden - Live At Donington - Disc 1 - 01:14:13
Various Artists - Slinky Tech-nique - Disk 1 - 01:14:15
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock'n'Roll - 01:14:18
Red Hot Chili Peppers - blood sugar sex magik - 01:14:20
Type O Negative - World Coming Down - 01:14:22
Judas Priest - Priest - Live! - 01:14:23
GWAR - Carnival Of Chaos - 01:14:24
Soulfly - Primitive (Digi-Pak) - 01:14:24
Metallica - Infernal Gods - Disc 2 - 01:14:26
Brian Eno - The Drop - 01:14:30
Dvorak - Basic Dvorak - 01:14:32
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances - 01:14:43
Various Artists - Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors - Disc 1 - 01:15:05
Dream Theater - Awake - 01:15:16
Dvorak - Complete Music for Violin and Piano - 01:15:18
The Who - Tommy - 01:15:24
Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom - 01:15:24
Adam Sandler - What The Hell Happened To Me? - 01:15:30
Madonna - Erotica - 01:15:42
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland - 01:15:49
ICE T - Home Invasion - 01:15:55
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter - 01:15:56
Blue Oyster Cult - Career Of Evil - The Metal Years - 01:15:57
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II - 01:16:18
Metallica - Re-Load - 01:16:24
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I - 01:16:27
Beethoven - The Complete Symphonies - Vol 1 - 01:16:43
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge - Disc 1 - 01:16:53
Metallica - All Hell Breaks Loose - Disc 1 - 01:16:58
Pantera - Official Live:101 Proof - 01:17:02
Deep Purple - Made In Japan - 01:17:12
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai - G3 Live In Concert - 01:17:14
Dvorak - Basic Dvorak - 01:17:19
Michael Jackson - Dangerous - 01:17:27
Scorpions - Hurricane Rock - 01:17:28
eurythmics - GREATEST HITS - 01:17:32
Various Artists - Platipus Records Volume One - 01:17:36
Delerium - Semantic Spaces - 01:17:41
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ozzman Cometh - Disk 1 - 01:17:43
Tool - Aenima - 01:17:46
Various Artists - Masters Of Misery (Black Sabbath Tribute) - 01:17:47
The Cult - Pure Cult - For Rockers, Ravers, Lovers & Sinners - 01:17:55
Metallica - Infernal Gods - Disc 1 - 01:18:07
Franz Schubert - String Quintet and Quartets - Disc 2 - 01:18:08
Various Artists - South Park - Chef Aid - 01:18:08
Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom - 01:18:08
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting - 01:18:12
Iron Maiden - Best Of The Beast - 01:18:25
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla/Sad Wings Of Destiny - 01:18:32
Various Artists - Platipus - Volume 1 - 01:18:34
Franz Schubert - String Quintet and Quartets - Disc 1 - 01:18:56
Tool - Lateralus - 01:19:17
Metallica - Load - 01:19:18
Scorpions - World Wide Live - 01:19:43
The Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake - 01:19:58
Well, I sent myself an encrypted message. I'm assuming it's encrypted anyway, since it crashes Opera (5.12) every single time I try to open it. If that ain't security through obscurity, I don't know what is!
You are my clone?!
They probably want to make an army of hackers so they can use them against Bin Laden, when he finally gets his Hotmail address with the backdoored PGP.
Here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010702 /index.html
The question now is, who will be interested in it? It is true that it will make Pentium 4 much more affordable due to its PC133 SDRAM support, but its lackluster memory performance impacts Pentium 4 so badly, that it makes AMD's Athlon an even more attractive solution than it already is. I personally would consider everyone as close to crazy if he should choose Pentium 4 plus i845 and PC133 SDRAM.
If you do get an Athlon, be sure and cool it properly. They'll keep processing till they burst into flames... :)
:)
Tom's Hardware lit some on fire for a test. I'm glad he does shit like that, so I don't have to.
Which is less than a second without a good heat sink, apparently...
I wanted to read that! Ah well...
:-P
Repeated attempts failed to load this page completely. There may be a problem on the server.
Yeah, I'll say. Maybe if I hit 'reload' every 5 seconds, I'll get through faster.
A herd, as everyone knows, is composed of creatures deprived of speech and with fairly weak sphincters. It is a proven fact, moreover, that in times of confusion, the herd prefers servitude to disorder. Which is why those who behave like crazed nanny goats do not have leaders but great goatish assholes at their head. Something in this species must be contagious, since it is so common in the human herd to find someone who can lead the masses to the edge of the reef and, once there, make them jump into the water. Unless he decides to destroy a civilization, which is something he does fairly frequently.
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
This isnt going to take away libterties from anyone It would just allow the government to do what theyre supposed to do anyway.
Which is what? Protect you from bad men? Make sure you don't speed? Make sure you pay your parking fines or you can't buy food?
The hijacked planes were not taken over by people with fake ID and submachine guns. They got on the plane legally, and hijacked the planes with knives. How is national ID going to help that?
Chest? It's tattoed on the inside of your wrist.
White text on a beige background, so bring your spectacles. Oh, and you need JS on. Or you could just type in
http://www.beachsidetech.com/perfection1.htm
perfection2.htm etc.
"Though Blizzard Entertainment is still hard at work polishing up its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, for an early 2002 release..."
Uh huh. "Highly anticipated" is right. Oh look! The vapourware awards from 2000! [wired] Coming in at Number 6, Warcraft III. I love Blizzard (mostly), and I think they do some great stuff, but until it's shipped, it doesn't exist.What is bitrate? What bitrate are EMusic's MP3s encoded at?
Bitrate is the number of bits per second used in the encoding process. A higher encoding rate usually means a larger size file, but higher quality sound. EMusic currently encodes its MP3s at 128 Kbps.
Sounds like a good service, but I was hoping for something a bit better than that. I don't mind paying for music, but the quality has to be there.
How does EMusic protect against piracy? Very simple -- we trust our customers. We believe that if downloadable music is presented in an inexpensive and flexible way, most consumers will do the right thing.
It's a lot easier to trust your customers when you're offering 128K MP3s. Question is, space limitations or piracy worries anyway? I realize 180,000 songs takes up some room, but that's their problem, not mine. It would be nice to have different ranges too- maybe 64K to demo the song, and 320K if you actually want it. But I can't help but think that offering the songs in low quality is some kind of indication of fear of mass trading once the songs are released to the world.
My CPU is a neural net processor- a learning computer.
How about, "Hey baby, that's my 19-inch one-eyed trouser snake. Wanna touch it?"