Well, I was talking about optical outputs. I bought one of the first ones that Sony made. It had a digital output as well. If my memory serves me right, I think that it didn't allow you to make a second generation digital copy. Then again, if one copies from MD to MP3, the sound will degrade anyways, so analog output is good enough.
uhm.... you can record digital to digital if you have a deck with optical i/o. Alas the newer ones aren't shipping with optical out unless you get a high end one.
MInidisc is much better in terms of sound quality. Also, MD now has MDLP recording mode, that will allow you to put 320 mins of music on a single disc. It does this by reducing the quality to roughly that of MP3.
It's a given that she and her husband try to play the role of a loving political couple, and people who genuinely "care" so much.
She's just not as good of an actor as her husband. She's the kind of liberal, that is a fascist to people who don't agree with her.
Thanks for posting that article.
This freedom to let anyone display their own content just resulted in a lot of mediocrity, and very little excellence. It's still the "old-world" media that has a knack of making something professional, informative and easy to understand.
Contrast Public Access TV to TV Networks.
A clear majority of written web content is either uninteresting, flameworthy, or poorly thought out.
The mediocrity phenomena occured many years ago when printing presses became more affordable.
Cloning comes down to selfishness. People have have suffering and then they want an easy fix. The large majority of medical problems come from gluttony and sloth in term of overeating, eating animal fats, and not enough physical activity, etc. This leads to suffering in terms of cancer, heart disease, cirrhosis, and obesity. Now suppose will be able to cure them with a cloning based cure.
Cloning will kill embryos, (They are babies when we want them, and embryos when we don't.)
Another reason for embryos is test tube babies. A lot of embryos have to be discarded because of complications.
Some day people will want a custom built cloned child. They will probably discard one that doesn't have pretty eyes or birth-defects.
With current technology, most cloned animals die shortly after death, as the body slowly breaks down. So obviously a cloned human is going to suffer because the system will not be perfected for awhile.
Clones would be abused as property to make our lives better at their expense.
Think further into the future when clones do exist. If we can clone a perfect soldier, or perfect housekeeper, can we feel comfortable when we abuse/kill them, because they are a comodity that can be replaced in a lab?
Anyone who's seen Blade Runner knows what I'm getting at. Will cloning just make us devalue life? Should clones in essence be our slaves? Are they going to have citizenship? Already we value the life of the mother above the one of an aborted baby.
We are going to rationalize cloning to ignore our real problems of gluttony, sloth, greed, vanity(custom building of embryos), --hell, maybe even lust, when we can design sex slaves.
I can understand the moral delimma of cloning/abortion -- The value of life. Where do we draw the line?
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OS X and OS 9 allow you to burn stuff directly from the Finder: You just drag the file onto the disk, and it will write.
Well, I was talking about optical outputs. I bought one of the first ones that Sony made. It had a digital output as well. If my memory serves me right, I think that it didn't allow you to make a second generation digital copy. Then again, if one copies from MD to MP3, the sound will degrade anyways, so analog output is good enough.
uhm.... you can record digital to digital if you have a deck with optical i/o. Alas the newer ones aren't shipping with optical out unless you get a high end one.
MInidisc is much better in terms of sound quality. Also, MD now has MDLP recording mode, that will allow you to put 320 mins of music on a single disc. It does this by reducing the quality to roughly that of MP3.
It's a given that she and her husband try to play the role of a loving political couple, and people who genuinely "care" so much. She's just not as good of an actor as her husband. She's the kind of liberal, that is a fascist to people who don't agree with her. Thanks for posting that article.
Contrast Public Access TV to TV Networks.
A clear majority of written web content is either uninteresting, flameworthy, or poorly thought out.
The mediocrity phenomena occured many years ago when printing presses became more affordable.
Cloning will kill embryos, (They are babies when we want them, and embryos when we don't.)
Another reason for embryos is test tube babies. A lot of embryos have to be discarded because of complications.
Some day people will want a custom built cloned child. They will probably discard one that doesn't have pretty eyes or birth-defects.
With current technology, most cloned animals die shortly after death, as the body slowly breaks down. So obviously a cloned human is going to suffer because the system will not be perfected for awhile.
Clones would be abused as property to make our lives better at their expense.
Think further into the future when clones do exist. If we can clone a perfect soldier, or perfect housekeeper, can we feel comfortable when we abuse/kill them, because they are a comodity that can be replaced in a lab?
Anyone who's seen Blade Runner knows what I'm getting at. Will cloning just make us devalue life? Should clones in essence be our slaves? Are they going to have citizenship? Already we value the life of the mother above the one of an aborted baby.
We are going to rationalize cloning to ignore our real problems of gluttony, sloth, greed, vanity(custom building of embryos), --hell, maybe even lust, when we can design sex slaves.
I can understand the moral delimma of cloning/abortion -- The value of life. Where do we draw the line?