Actually "mashup" is about 5 years old give or take, it comes from the underground music scene where beat-matching software is used to blend together two (or more) songs together that would not ordinarily fit.
For example: (and I'm serious here) Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" + Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" = "Smells Like Teen Booty"
Some rather high-profile works have been created using the technique, The Beatles vs Jay-Z, Beatles vs. Beachboys (Beachles) Beatles vs. Beastie Boys (Beastles), Dean Gray's American Edit -- from the Green Day album American Idiot mixed with basically everything which has a particularly interesting mashup of the Doctor Who Theme and the song "Holiday".
Hollywood's movie distribution system is in dire need of a fix.
Actually -- it's not. Unless you have no retailer and no internet access to purchase DVD's, the distribution system works.
Movie attendance has been suffering.
If you're a single person going to a theatre spending US$8.50 for entry, $4.00 for a medium drink, $5.00 for a box of candy or nachos, one person might be able to handle it. Now, imagine being a family of four and doing all that?
In all though, I perceive no apparent problem with attendance. I saw MI:3 in Raleigh, NC yesterday and the theatre was full. I watched both DaVinci Code and X-Men:3 last weekend in St. Louis, MO and the seats were full there as well.
DVD sales are slumping.
I like movies. No, I LOVE movies. I've got nearly 400 DVD's in my collection that I'm slowly starting to sell because of HD-DVD disks already being sold here in North Carolina for the price of about US$30.00. I've bought, sold, replaced, sold, and replaced so many titles in my collection that I'd begun to give up.
It's the studio's problem that they rush discs to market just a couple months after a films release and then a year later offer the "extended, uncut super-freakout end-all be all version". Then a year after that they release the same disk but some action figure, or bonus disc or Oscar edition.
THEY dilluted the market. They had people like me willing to invest hard-earned cash into building a "respectable" movie collection (amongst officianados) and pissed it away.
If they really want to change things, release the "movie-only" version through the cable companies. Offer a set-top box that has a smart card linked to an account that registers customer purchases and allows people to OWN ACCESS TO THE CONTENT WITHOUT HAVING TO PURCHASE A PHYSICAL ITEM.
A person should then be able to LEND his smart card to a friend or take it with him to another customer's house and watch the same LICENSED film if he chooses.
Two people cannot watch the same purchase simultaneously in two different locations, and the studios will be able to obtain metrics on who's watching what and WHERE.
But for the real FANS OF FILM offer the super-freakout edition in the stores or for online purchase. Stop fucking it up for us. You're double-dipping. You're cheating us.
For those of us who BUY physical products give us a central registry so that we can be afforded REPLACEMENT of our discs when things go awry. We send in the old-dead disc, you send us back a shiny new one.
I think that for $30.00 per title you can do this with little effort.
I don't know about everyone else, but I associate Napster with free distribution of music. And ultimately music "piracy". The RIAA have successfully married the Napster name with illegal behavior. I'm sure the case is true for Joe Sixpack how just wants to download some old Hank Williams albums (or whatever).
Apple's fortunes smiled on them because they provide end-to-end service. Content. A delivery mechanism. Output device. THEY HAD A STEP "B"!!!
I suppose it helps that iTunes has always been a pay-to-play service. Brand recognition means nothing if your product is inferior. You'll just be discounted faster based on conception of the brand.
A: "Have you used Napster?" B: "No. They suck. I got iTunes. for my iPod." A: ":swoon:"
If you RTFA it's pretty cool. Li attacks the Communist Party with real communism. Whodathunk?
The core of these regulations is that the standards for appraising the performance of the newspapers will not be on the basis of the media role according to Marxism. It is not based upon the basic principles of the Chinese Communist Party. It is not based upon the spirit of President Hu Jintao about how power, rights and sentiments should be tied to the people. It is not based upon whether the masses of readers will be satisfied. Instead, the appraisal standard will depend upon whether a small number of senior organizations or officials like it or not.
somebody mod the parent post up. At work we get large quantities of hard drives from various manufacturers and out of every batch we usually get 1 or 2 that just will not spin up, or have other errors prohibiting their use.
Considering the condition of some of the boxes I've seen people carrying out of the stores, it's no wonder there isn't a few machines that have had parts wriggle free.
They probably make sure the system boots to the dashboard and then send it on for packaging.
I seriously doubt that ANY video game console company does burn-in testing for 24-hours before shipping the unit to market. The costs would be (more) astronomical.
My last Umax scanner (with both USB & SCSI connections) was fantastic until XP came out. Then >boom, no free driver support. You can get a driver but it costs you $20 to order a CD from their website. No download version of it either.
I still have the Umax scanner on a shelf,waiting for them to release a free driver, but I'd only buy HP at this point.
It seems to me that since storage capacities are rising while cost to the end user is falling (i.e. a 200gb drive can be purchased for around US$80) will compression even matter in another 10 years? Right now the "pirates" are starting to distribute in both AAC & APE formats (totally lossless compression) files are only marginally smaller than the standard 10mb/minute for 16-bit.wav files. I've ripped nearly ALL of my own CD's (roughly 300 CD's, at 320kbps VBR and it's only 21 Gigs of space... so what, like 4-5 DVD-9's?
this is changing..7z format gets pretty decent performance gains over.rar (which is still better than ZIP any day).
I'm an admin and i use RAR all the time at work. I use it to compress.iso images that i read with my PC and then transfer them to our NAS and then share the images out through NFS so don't have to hunt for the stupid Forte 9 cd, or the Open Source Toolkit for Tru64. It's nice being able to backup all the disc images to a single DVD, have one disk for Solaris, One for Tru64, one for AIX, one for HPUX, (the BigIP, OpenVMS, Veritas and various system patchkits all go on there on CD. along with the source for Unrar:-)
We have TimeWarner/RoadRunner here in KC,MO -- they just upgraded our d/l speed to 5 megabits for no additional charge.. (still paying $44.95/month) no contracts, no stupid bandwitdth caps either.
Fireboy1919 said:...which is why so few have an account on somethingawful.com.
It's like they're saying "come here and listen to all the people who paid us money. Your opinion doesn't matter until you do too."
That's not what they're saying at all -- They just want to encourage people to contribute something meaningful -- for awhile there people were getting banned for using AOL/l33tspeak (LOL, ROFL -etc).
somethingawful.com actually has a great method of controlling this:
1. It's free to browse the forums. 2. If you wanna post/reply - it'll cost you $10 3. Custom Titles & avatars -- another $10 4. If you make a "shit post" (among which blatant racism i.e. "post pictures of black people eating cliche' foods") or even single-word posts will automatically result in your message thread being "gassed" and your account being banned -- resulting in YOU having to pay another $10.
I imagine that the fabrication costs would be too prohibitive to market this case on a large scale. You'd only be able to market something like this to VERY high-end customers -- and those people probably could pay somebody to use a computer for them. Attempts to fab a case with anything less than this guys attention-to-detail would make the effort worthless.
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Actually "mashup" is about 5 years old give or take, it comes from the underground music scene where beat-matching software is used to blend together two (or more) songs together that would not ordinarily fit.
For example: (and I'm serious here) Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" + Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" = "Smells Like Teen Booty"
Some rather high-profile works have been created using the technique, The Beatles vs Jay-Z, Beatles vs. Beachboys (Beachles) Beatles vs. Beastie Boys (Beastles), Dean Gray's American Edit -- from the Green Day album American Idiot mixed with basically everything which has a particularly interesting mashup of the Doctor Who Theme and the song "Holiday".
Dunno about you guys, but on Windows I just push the F3 key. Works great.
Hollywood's movie distribution system is in dire need of a fix.
Actually -- it's not. Unless you have no retailer and no internet access to purchase DVD's, the distribution system works.
Movie attendance has been suffering.
If you're a single person going to a theatre spending US$8.50 for entry, $4.00 for a medium drink, $5.00 for a box of candy or nachos, one person might be able to handle it. Now, imagine being a family of four and doing all that?
In all though, I perceive no apparent problem with attendance. I saw MI:3 in Raleigh, NC yesterday and the theatre was full. I watched both DaVinci Code and X-Men:3 last weekend in St. Louis, MO and the seats were full there as well.
DVD sales are slumping.
I like movies. No, I LOVE movies. I've got nearly 400 DVD's in my collection that I'm slowly starting to sell because of HD-DVD disks already being sold here in North Carolina for the price of about US$30.00.
I've bought, sold, replaced, sold, and replaced so many titles in my collection that I'd begun to give up.
It's the studio's problem that they rush discs to market just a couple months after a films release and then a year later offer the "extended, uncut super-freakout end-all be all version". Then a year after that they release the same disk but some action figure, or bonus disc or Oscar edition.
THEY dilluted the market. They had people like me willing to invest hard-earned cash into building a "respectable" movie collection (amongst officianados) and pissed it away.
If they really want to change things, release the "movie-only" version through the cable companies. Offer a set-top box that has a smart card linked to an account that registers customer purchases and allows people to OWN ACCESS TO THE CONTENT WITHOUT HAVING TO PURCHASE A PHYSICAL ITEM.
A person should then be able to LEND his smart card to a friend or take it with him to another customer's house and watch the same LICENSED film if he chooses.
Two people cannot watch the same purchase simultaneously in two different locations, and the studios will be able to obtain metrics on who's watching what and WHERE.
But for the real FANS OF FILM offer the super-freakout edition in the stores or for online purchase. Stop fucking it up for us. You're double-dipping. You're cheating us.
For those of us who BUY physical products give us a central registry so that we can be afforded REPLACEMENT of our discs when things go awry. We send in the old-dead disc, you send us back a shiny new one.
I think that for $30.00 per title you can do this with little effort.
Playing Madden 06 for 72 hours straight will NOT make me into a pro football player.
I don't know about everyone else, but I associate Napster with free distribution of music. And ultimately music "piracy". The RIAA have successfully married the Napster name with illegal behavior. I'm sure the case is true for Joe Sixpack how just wants to download some old Hank Williams albums (or whatever).
Apple's fortunes smiled on them because they provide end-to-end service. Content. A delivery mechanism. Output device. THEY HAD A STEP "B"!!!
I suppose it helps that iTunes has always been a pay-to-play service.
Brand recognition means nothing if your product is inferior. You'll just be discounted faster based on conception of the brand.
A: "Have you used Napster?"
B: "No. They suck. I got iTunes. for my iPod."
A: ":swoon:"
just another hole in the damn, brother.
If you RTFA it's pretty cool. Li attacks the Communist Party with real communism. Whodathunk?
The core of these regulations is that the standards for appraising the performance of the newspapers will not be on the basis of the media role according to Marxism. It is not based upon the basic principles of the Chinese Communist Party. It is not based upon the spirit of President Hu Jintao about how power, rights and sentiments should be tied to the people. It is not based upon whether the masses of readers will be satisfied. Instead, the appraisal standard will depend upon whether a small number of senior organizations or officials like it or not.
Guinness IS Good For You!
somebody mod the parent post up.
At work we get large quantities of hard drives from various manufacturers and out of every batch we usually get 1 or 2 that just will not spin up, or have other errors prohibiting their use.
Considering the condition of some of the boxes I've seen people carrying out of the stores, it's no wonder there isn't a few machines that have had parts wriggle free.
They probably make sure the system boots to the dashboard and then send it on for packaging.
I seriously doubt that ANY video game console company does burn-in testing for 24-hours before shipping the unit to market. The costs would be (more) astronomical.
Umax used to be some of the best scanners around.
My last Umax scanner (with both USB & SCSI connections) was fantastic until XP came out. Then >boom, no free driver support. You can get a driver but it costs you $20 to order a CD from their website. No download version of it either.
I still have the Umax scanner on a shelf,waiting for them to release a free driver, but I'd only buy HP at this point.
It seems to me that since storage capacities are rising while cost to the end user is falling (i.e. a 200gb drive can be purchased for around US$80) will compression even matter in another 10 years? Right now the "pirates" are starting to distribute in both AAC & APE formats (totally lossless compression) files are only marginally smaller than the standard 10mb/minute for 16-bit .wav files. I've ripped nearly ALL of my own CD's (roughly 300 CD's, at 320kbps VBR and it's only 21 Gigs of space... so what, like 4-5 DVD-9's?
Yub Nub means "Freedom" in Ewokese.
yes.
fucking ewoks.
yes.
I'm lame.
(former Official Star Wars Fan Club member 1983-1985)
One man's activist is another man's terrorist.
this is changing. .7z format gets pretty decent performance gains over .rar (which is still better than ZIP any day).
.iso images that i read with my PC and then transfer them to our NAS and then share the images out through NFS so don't have to hunt for the stupid Forte 9 cd, or the Open Source Toolkit for Tru64. It's nice being able to backup all the disc images to a single DVD, have one disk for Solaris, One for Tru64, one for AIX, one for HPUX, (the BigIP, OpenVMS, Veritas and various system patchkits all go on there on CD. along with the source for Unrar :-)
I'm an admin and i use RAR all the time at work. I use it to compress
We have TimeWarner/RoadRunner here in KC,MO -- they just upgraded our d/l speed to 5 megabits for no additional charge.. (still paying $44.95/month) no contracts, no stupid bandwitdth caps either.
Fireboy1919 said: ...which is why so few have an account on somethingawful.com.
It's like they're saying "come here and listen to all the people who paid us money. Your opinion doesn't matter until you do too."
That's not what they're saying at all -- They just want to encourage people to contribute something meaningful -- for awhile there people were getting banned for using AOL/l33tspeak (LOL, ROFL -etc).
nope -- they will get continuously banned until their credit card/pay pal account is fully depleted
or the user gets permabanned.
somethingawful.com actually has a great method of controlling this:
1. It's free to browse the forums.
2. If you wanna post/reply - it'll cost you $10
3. Custom Titles & avatars -- another $10
4. If you make a "shit post" (among which blatant racism i.e. "post pictures of black people eating cliche' foods") or even single-word posts will automatically result in your message thread being "gassed" and your account being banned -- resulting in YOU having to pay another $10.
shut. up. jackass.
It's loose lips like yours that ruined it for everybody else.
I imagine that the fabrication costs would be too prohibitive to market this case on a large scale.
You'd only be able to market something like this to VERY high-end customers -- and those people probably could pay somebody to use a computer for them.
Attempts to fab a case with anything less than this guys attention-to-detail would make the effort worthless.
With a windows tool called Easy CD-DA Extractor you can then cut up your .wav rips & convert into mp3 while do full ID3 tagging from freedb.org.
All your CD's are belong to us.
AudigyZSplatinum US$100
Easy CD-DA Extractor US$29.95
The AOL CD throne is shaped just like an http 503 error. Such skill. Such craftsmanship.
Let's see:
Finally:
cardboard & styrofoam -- reprazent!
A quick google search may lead you to CxBx which already allows you to run the Original XBOX Halo on your PC.
There are also cpu-upgrade hacks (story/links) HERE