What causes cascades like this actually has very little to do with megawatts and everything to do with frequency. See, every generator on the power grid is syncronized to a common source. Indeed, before a power plant comes back on line it must first syncronize its generators. The generators normally sit there running at a boring 3600 RPM (60hz*60 seconds). All plants have a monitor that kicks them off line if their frequency varies by more than +/- a hz or so. As an aside, the power grid is not always EXACTLY 60 hz. The frequency of the entire grid is allowed to float a bit, though drifts are corrected so the frequency averaged over a certain time is a nominal 60 Hz. The cascade happens when a either big plant or a big load suddenly goes off line. In the case of a big plant the other plants try to take up the load, but in the process their frequency drops as the generators get loaded more (much like shifting a car's manual transmission to a higher gear before it hits the right engine RPM). Once a generator drops below 59 hz, it also trips off making it even harder for the ones left to keep up, and generators begin to fall off the grid like dominoes. The opposite happens when a load suddenly goes away, but in that case the generators' frequency abruptly jumps upward, which also results in it tripping off the grid. Either way the result is a cascade like happened today.
Once the dominoes (generators) begin to fall off, the grid becomes unglued. There's an old saying in the power industry: 59.5 Hz = trouble. 59 Hz = BIG trouble!
I believe the new power management software mentioned in the news reports that should have prevented this works by intelligently shedding loads distant from where the anomaly occurrs (for example, shedding load in NYC for an anomaly in Canada). This would give the generators time to react to the change. Obviously it didn't work.
I mean, Hilary Rosen couldn't buy a clue with a thousand dollar bill...but is each of us kicks in a buck or two, maybe we can come up with enough scratch for her to at least make a down payment on one!
He's a great musician! It's been a long time since he had a CD released. Probably due to the RIAA cutting back on CD releases. Well, it's long over - wait....
Oh!.... that Cray!
Never mind!
Clipping like this can damage your speakers!!
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Clipping like this can blow out the midranges and/or tweeters in your speakers. Clipping produces harmonics of the original frequencies present. Speakers are not designed for this kind of sustained high frequency energy and will fry easily. Just ask anyone who's blown a tweeter by accidentally rewinding a tape with head lift off.
"If users think that any particular service guarantees their anonymity, they're wrong," he said. "There are ways to determine a user's identity."
But Jim Lowrey, an expert in network encryption, said it would be difficult for outsiders to break through the encryption to see who is using the private sharing services.
"You'll know they're talking, but you won't know what they're saying. It's quite impossible to crack the algorithms," said Lowrey, whose company, Endeavors Technology, is designing a file-sharing system for corporate clients
Doesn't the DMCA make it a crime for the RIAA to even try breaking this encryption?
Oh wait..they're the RIAA - laws don't apply to them!
There's no need to innovate any more. Just sue your way to prosperity. It's a simple thing to do too: Just find an idea (whether or not it's patented doesn't matter; neither does prior art. File for a patent - the Patent Office is so lame that you'll surely be granted one).
Then sue everyone in sight.
It's easy to get this shit to end once and for all. Find an intelligent candidate to run against one of these clowns, finance him (in a grassroots sort of way) and vote the bastard out!
All it will take is ONE of these clowns to be thrown out on their lobbyest fattened asses and you'll find the rest of the pack so scared for their jobs that they'll quickly come around. These jerks are emboldened by voter apathy. They're ARROGANCE needs to be rewarded by unemployment!
The Republicans found out about this trick YEARS ago! Why do you think they now control BOTH houses of Congress? EASY! They got people who supported them to actually get off their asses and VOTE!
Why are the Democrats such morons? The Democratic party is supposed to protect the working man. All I see there two democratic turncoats doing is taking industry money and voting AGAINST their constituants. Throw the assholes out!
In many big cities the (NY, LA and Chi for 3), there's a full power (50 or 100 Kw) station every four channels (800 Khz) starting at 92.3 and ending at 107.5. In the '60's, the FCC realized that this channel allotment scheme meant that there were no frequencies (FM channels; the FM band is channelized, where 87.9 is channel 200 and 107.9 is 300) for local stations in suburbs. The FCC's answer was to allow class A (local) FM stations IN BETWEEN the bigger stations. This means that in these cities, there's stations ALREADY located 400 khz (2 channels) apart. Look at LA for example:
The class B (50 Kw) stations are on 92.3, 93.1, 93.9, 94.7, etc. But in between there are suburban (3 and 6 Kw) FM stations on 92.7, 93.5, 94.3...all the way up to 107.1!
If these 50 and 3/6 Kw stations can co-exist (and they have - for decades!) two channels apart I can't understand why a 100 watt LPFM can't either. Oh WAIT... we're talking Clear Channel, The NAB, and Congress here aren't we? The laws of physics don't APPLY to them!
Never mind!
$$$$$.......
Big business wants copyrights when it benefits them..and doesn't want them when it benefits THEM!
Disney is one of the biggest hypocrites going...but with enough $$$ to take some and grease the palms of Congress, the $$$$$ tree will just keep making $$$$$ whenever it's shaken (not stirred)!
The same way they can get paid for every blank cassette sold, including the voice grade ones I use for recording lectures. The same way they get paid for every blank audio CD sold, including those I record my newborn baby's gurgles into. See, this has been going on for YEARS already... they already GET paid even though it's entirely possible that (copyrighted) music will never be recorded on the medium in question.
What I'd like to know is why renting CD's was made a federal crime in the 1980's when renting movies isn't. If I own something, then why can't I rent it out? It IS mine after all!!!
My condo is wired with four pair cat 3 wiring for the phones. The wiring was installed before the floor, and runs underneath it. The crawl space is way too small to run new wires. I was resigned to using wireless until I realized that the phone wires are looped from location to location rather then home run back to the telco block in the back of the building (This is a 5 unit condo; mine is the middle unit). Since one of the loops went directly from where the switch is to where I needed the computer, I decided to try and use two of the unused pairs in the Cat 3 for ethernet. It worked! I also get full 100 Mhz
speed. See, the Cat 5 spec specifies 100 Mhz speed over a 300+ foot run, while my run of cat 3 is only about 35 feet. Yes, the (single) phone line does run in one of the other pairs, including the DSL. I borrowed a cable tester and
found that this did not affect my speed at all.
This scheme cost nothing but an hour's time terminating the jacks and saved me hundreds of dollars over having a professional run cables under the floor. Finally, I'm typing this right now on the bedroom computer, the very one that's hooked up with telephone wire to the network.
When you've got the fastest growing desktop OS built on your Linux distribution, you're in no danger of becoming irrelevant. Lindows (if marketed properly, and I believe is has been/will be), has the potential to become the second largest graphical OS, beating the Mac. I believe that Lindows will soon be free, because they're clearly moving towards using Click n Run subscriptions for revenue. That's good for all of us, because Debian is already one of the easiest distrbutions to download and add programs to.
Lindows is even easier and I predict that by the end of the year that either Lindows 3 or 4 is free. I think that Lindows is moving toward a distribution model where they make their $$ from click-n-run subscriptions. It behooves them to use the old Polaroid model of distribution (and the currrent Inkjet model); mainly lose $$ on the OS but make it back on the accessories.
I own a gun which is legally licensed. Since I could possibly use this gun to kill someone, under this logic I should go to jail for the possibility of a crime.
If I recall, there was a movie last year called: "Minority Report" that involved this very same thing. The premise was that people could be jailed for what they MIGHT do.
I guess the judge here must have seen that movie while on LSD and confused fantasy with reality!
Replacements for MC 1458 are (in order of quality)
AD712, TLE2072, 5532, TLO72, LF353 (available at Radio Shack), TLO82
Again, these will blow away the MC1458 audio wise.
You can replace the LM741 with any number of audibly superior amplifiers.
Here are some to try (in Order of quality).
AD711, TLE2071, 5534 (must put a 20 Pf capacitor beween pins 1 and 8), TLO72, LF351, TLO81 (available at Radio Shack).
Any of these will blow away the LM741 sound wise.
On the surface, what you say makes sense, but after reading it twice it falls apart. You are using the "worse criminal" defense for the RIAA and MPAA. In other words, you want to "crush Kazaa" and let the RIAA and MPAA completely off, because you believe that Kazaa is the only bad guy here. Well, I've got news for you. The RIAA and MPAA (both of whom you think are blameless here), brought this whole thing upon themselves. It started with a cartel attitude they got long before Kazaa even existed. The RIAA has spent years screwing the consumer, the songwriter and the individual artist, while at the same time reciting a mantra that it claims to be HELPING them! The MPAA does the same with actors. They are trade and lobbying groups who only seek to benefit their members. I work in radio and based on your statement, the NAB is good for radio and TV.
I'm sure if you ask my unemployed friend, he might give you his impressions which run quite contrary to yours (and he's a conservative republican!). Kazaa should be looked upon as the digital equilavent to the VCR. If you recall, the MPAA wanted to kill that golden goose too. Once they were smacked back by the Supreme Court, cooler heads prevailed over the rantings of Herr Valenti and now the movie industry makes OVER HALF of their income from video rentals and sales. The same could be true of p2p. P2p has the ability to make the music and movie industries TONS OF MONEY! Even 'evil' Napster wanted to cut them into this golden gravy train and their pure ignorance resulted in them again killing the golden goose! But based on your logic, a new entertainment source that had 45 million users that paid for their own storage, marketing and transportation can only be used for evil purposes..right? The bottom line is this: Given a place to BUY MP3's at reasonable prices, people do..IN DROVES! Same is likely true of movies too. Look, when CD's first came out, they cost about 3 bucks apiece to make (mostly because of the huge amount of failures that had to be tested out of each batch - they virtually had to test every individual CD). That alone justified their (almost triple) cost over vinyl. Now they stamp out CD's for a couple of pennies - yet charge more for them. I remember my friend buying an LED digital watch for 300 bucks in 1974. These days, digital watches cost 99 cents! YET the CD hasn't come down a penny!
At the same time, the artists and songwriters get less (real) money then they did 25 years ago! Why? Simple greed. Nothing more, nothing less. What the RIAA wants is to kill this threat to their existance...nothing more.
Why the MPAA lets Herr Valenti rant again escapes me too...
What the record and movie industries don't seem to realize is that they're essentially becoming redundant. Their product isn't necessary for life like food, heat, transportation, clothes and shelter are. In a bad economy (like we have right now), those things take precedence over music and movies. Restaurants are taking it on the chin too...last week I went to my favorite one (after almost a year) and the normally full restaurant was almost empty. Car sales are so in the toilet that that they are throwing out 0% financing for five years now, hoping that someone buys! Yet, I don't see Congress passing laws making supermarkets or busses illegal.
Plus, there is a huge fight for the entertainment dollar out there. Video games, digital TV, DVD, Satellite TV and radio, paint ball, fishing, camping and about 100 other things are competing for it. The RIAA and MPAA should be kissing the ground that their consumers are still loyal after them calling them criminals, rather then intimidating them in court!.
I just filed a patent titled: "System for Insuring Uninterrupted Habitation of Rented Domicile for a Specific Period of Time".
My patent application describes a method whereby a person, couple of family can insure uninterrupted habitation of their rented domicile for a mutually agreed upon amount of time. A modified version of this system codifies certain enhancements such as who pays for trash pickup and gardening at the domicile.
I believe that my system is sufficently different from Netflix's, as theirs describes a DVD, while mine describes a domicile.
(In other words, we both patented the LEASE, just for two different things).
Those patents were applied for many, many years ago. Therefore, patent pending protection has been in affect for decades. The net result is to effectively extend patents by decades. This is wrong. The patent clock should be retroactive to the day the patent was filed, because the protection effectively is. These are extreme examples of that...but I've got to wonder how many other unexploded 'time bombs' like these are still out there.
Uhm..excuse me...but shouldn't the FBI be out chasing violent criminals and terrorists, rather than busting teenagers for downloading Britney Spears?
Besides...it seems to me that all these wasted hours protecting the obsolete business models of private companies like the RIAA and MPAA might also be spent training agents more....as in making the 'intelligence' community a bit more intelligent.
I used to be able to buy an album and find I liked at least half the songs on it. Not any more. What I find today is maybe two good songs and 10 'fillers'. Fillers is a term coined from the days of the 45 when you had the hit on one side and the other side was known as the "B" side. The B cut was the filler.
Bands like the Beatles would not release album cuts on 45 because they felt it cheapened the value of their albums. They wanted their fans to have the best value possible. The CD eliminated the 45 and that's too bad, because it killed the "One hit wonder"; meaning those bands that had one or two songs that were hits before they faded into obscurity. Problem is, those bands are still around, but now they record 12 songs, only one or two of which is usually any good!
I find it amusing that bands these days are bitching and moaning over what's basically a rebirth of the 45! Could this be because it will show them up for the mediocre musicians they are? Or is it because the entry bar has been lowered to once again allow "one hit wonders' to flourish? Or is it (SFX of cash register "ka ching" in the background) over the almighty buck?
I think we all know the answer, don't we?
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What causes cascades like this actually has very little to do with megawatts
and everything to do with frequency. See, every generator on the power grid is
syncronized to a common source. Indeed, before a power plant comes back on
line it must first syncronize its generators. The generators normally sit
there running at a boring 3600 RPM (60hz*60 seconds). All plants have a
monitor that kicks them off line if their frequency varies by more than +/- a
hz or so. As an aside, the power grid is not always EXACTLY 60 hz. The
frequency of the entire grid is allowed to float a bit, though drifts are
corrected so the frequency averaged over a certain time is a nominal 60 Hz.
The cascade happens when a either big plant or a big load suddenly goes off
line. In the case of a big plant the other plants try to take up the load, but
in the process their frequency drops as the generators get loaded more (much
like shifting a car's manual transmission to a higher gear before it hits the
right engine RPM). Once a generator drops below 59 hz, it also trips off
making it even harder for the ones left to keep up, and generators begin to
fall off the grid like dominoes.
The opposite happens when a load suddenly goes away, but in that case the
generators' frequency abruptly jumps upward, which also results in it tripping
off the grid. Either way the result is a cascade like happened today.
Once the dominoes (generators) begin to fall off, the grid becomes unglued.
There's an old saying in the power industry:
59.5 Hz = trouble. 59 Hz = BIG trouble!
I believe the new power management software mentioned in the news reports that
should have prevented this works by intelligently shedding loads distant from where the anomaly occurrs (for example, shedding load in NYC for an anomaly in Canada). This would give the generators time to react to the change. Obviously it didn't work.
Sears has been doing this for YEARS! I'd think they own the prior art on this one ;)
I mean, Hilary Rosen couldn't buy a clue with a thousand dollar bill...but is each of us kicks in a buck or two, maybe we can come up with enough scratch for her to at least make a down payment on one!
Microsoft's new logo is: "Do More with Less". I think I'll start a Linux distribution called "Less Linux".
Oh!.... that Cray!
Never mind!Clipping like this can blow out the midranges and/or tweeters in your speakers. Clipping produces harmonics of the original frequencies present. Speakers are not designed for this kind of sustained high frequency energy and will fry easily. Just ask anyone who's blown a tweeter by accidentally rewinding a tape with head lift off.
Doesn't the DMCA make it a crime for the RIAA to even try breaking this encryption?
Oh wait..they're the RIAA - laws don't apply to them!In other words:
Steal
Patent
Sue
???
Profit!
It's easy to get this shit to end once and for all. Find an intelligent candidate to run against one of these clowns, finance him (in a grassroots sort of way) and vote the bastard out! All it will take is ONE of these clowns to be thrown out on their lobbyest fattened asses and you'll find the rest of the pack so scared for their jobs that they'll quickly come around. These jerks are emboldened by voter apathy. They're ARROGANCE needs to be rewarded by unemployment! The Republicans found out about this trick YEARS ago! Why do you think they now control BOTH houses of Congress? EASY! They got people who supported them to actually get off their asses and VOTE! Why are the Democrats such morons? The Democratic party is supposed to protect the working man. All I see there two democratic turncoats doing is taking industry money and voting AGAINST their constituants. Throw the assholes out!
In many big cities the (NY, LA and Chi for 3), there's a full power (50 or 100 Kw) station every four channels (800 Khz) starting at 92.3 and ending at 107.5. In the '60's, the FCC realized that this channel allotment scheme meant that there were no frequencies (FM channels; the FM band is channelized, where 87.9 is channel 200 and 107.9 is 300) for local stations in suburbs. The FCC's answer was to allow class A (local) FM stations IN BETWEEN the bigger stations. This means that in these cities, there's stations ALREADY located 400 khz (2 channels) apart. Look at LA for example: The class B (50 Kw) stations are on 92.3, 93.1, 93.9, 94.7, etc. But in between there are suburban (3 and 6 Kw) FM stations on 92.7, 93.5, 94.3...all the way up to 107.1! If these 50 and 3/6 Kw stations can co-exist (and they have - for decades!) two channels apart I can't understand why a 100 watt LPFM can't either. Oh WAIT... we're talking Clear Channel, The NAB, and Congress here aren't we? The laws of physics don't APPLY to them! Never mind!
$$$$$....... Big business wants copyrights when it benefits them..and doesn't want them when it benefits THEM! Disney is one of the biggest hypocrites going...but with enough $$$ to take some and grease the palms of Congress, the $$$$$ tree will just keep making $$$$$ whenever it's shaken (not stirred)!
The same way they can get paid for every blank cassette sold, including the voice grade ones I use for recording lectures. The same way they get paid for every blank audio CD sold, including those I record my newborn baby's gurgles into.
See, this has been going on for YEARS already...
they already GET paid even though it's entirely possible that (copyrighted) music will never be recorded on the medium in question.
What I'd like to know is why renting CD's was made a federal crime in the 1980's when renting movies isn't. If I own something, then why can't I rent it out? It IS mine after all!!!
Okay, okay...it's late and I'm tired...plus I'm an RF guy.... I'm sure everyone knows what I meant to say...
My condo is wired with four pair cat 3 wiring for the phones. The wiring was installed before the floor, and runs underneath it. The crawl space is way too small to run new wires. I was resigned to using wireless until I realized that the phone wires are looped from location to location rather then home run back to the telco block in the back of the building (This is a 5 unit condo; mine is the middle unit). Since one of the loops went directly from where the switch is to where I needed the computer, I decided to try and use two of the unused pairs in the Cat 3 for ethernet. It worked! I also get full 100 Mhz speed. See, the Cat 5 spec specifies 100 Mhz speed over a 300+ foot run, while my run of cat 3 is only about 35 feet. Yes, the (single) phone line does run in one of the other pairs, including the DSL. I borrowed a cable tester and found that this did not affect my speed at all. This scheme cost nothing but an hour's time terminating the jacks and saved me hundreds of dollars over having a professional run cables under the floor. Finally, I'm typing this right now on the bedroom computer, the very one that's hooked up with telephone wire to the network.
When you've got the fastest growing desktop OS built on your Linux distribution, you're in no danger of becoming irrelevant. Lindows (if marketed properly, and I believe is has been/will be), has the potential to become the second largest graphical OS, beating the Mac. I believe that Lindows will soon be free, because they're clearly moving towards using Click n Run subscriptions for revenue. That's good for all of us, because Debian is already one of the easiest distrbutions to download and add programs to.
Lindows is even easier and I predict that by the end of the year that either Lindows 3 or 4 is free. I think that Lindows is moving toward a distribution model where they make their $$ from click-n-run subscriptions. It behooves them to use the old Polaroid model of distribution (and the currrent Inkjet model); mainly lose $$ on the OS but make it back on the accessories.
If I recall, there was a movie last year called: "Minority Report" that involved this very same thing. The premise was that people could be jailed for what they MIGHT do.
I guess the judge here must have seen that movie while on LSD and confused fantasy with reality!
Replacements for MC 1458 are (in order of quality) AD712, TLE2072, 5532, TLO72, LF353 (available at Radio Shack), TLO82 Again, these will blow away the MC1458 audio wise.
You can replace the LM741 with any number of audibly superior amplifiers. Here are some to try (in Order of quality). AD711, TLE2071, 5534 (must put a 20 Pf capacitor beween pins 1 and 8), TLO72, LF351, TLO81 (available at Radio Shack). Any of these will blow away the LM741 sound wise.
But Microsoft is throwing in a free toliet seat with each computer, which will save the Army about $600.00 per computer and toilet.
On the surface, what you say makes sense, but after reading it twice it falls apart. You are using the "worse criminal" defense for the RIAA and MPAA. In other words, you want to "crush Kazaa" and let the RIAA and MPAA completely off, because you believe that Kazaa is the only bad guy here. Well, I've got news for you. The RIAA and MPAA (both of whom you think are blameless here), brought this whole thing upon themselves. It started with a cartel attitude they got long before Kazaa even existed. The RIAA has spent years screwing the consumer, the songwriter and the individual artist, while at the same time reciting a mantra that it claims to be HELPING them! The MPAA does the same with actors. They are trade and lobbying groups who only seek to benefit their members. I work in radio and based on your statement, the NAB is good for radio and TV. I'm sure if you ask my unemployed friend, he might give you his impressions which run quite contrary to yours (and he's a conservative republican!). Kazaa should be looked upon as the digital equilavent to the VCR. If you recall, the MPAA wanted to kill that golden goose too. Once they were smacked back by the Supreme Court, cooler heads prevailed over the rantings of Herr Valenti and now the movie industry makes OVER HALF of their income from video rentals and sales. The same could be true of p2p. P2p has the ability to make the music and movie industries TONS OF MONEY! Even 'evil' Napster wanted to cut them into this golden gravy train and their pure ignorance resulted in them again killing the golden goose! But based on your logic, a new entertainment source that had 45 million users that paid for their own storage, marketing and transportation can only be used for evil purposes..right? The bottom line is this: Given a place to BUY MP3's at reasonable prices, people do..IN DROVES! Same is likely true of movies too. Look, when CD's first came out, they cost about 3 bucks apiece to make (mostly because of the huge amount of failures that had to be tested out of each batch - they virtually had to test every individual CD). That alone justified their (almost triple) cost over vinyl. Now they stamp out CD's for a couple of pennies - yet charge more for them. I remember my friend buying an LED digital watch for 300 bucks in 1974. These days, digital watches cost 99 cents! YET the CD hasn't come down a penny! At the same time, the artists and songwriters get less (real) money then they did 25 years ago! Why? Simple greed. Nothing more, nothing less. What the RIAA wants is to kill this threat to their existance...nothing more. Why the MPAA lets Herr Valenti rant again escapes me too... What the record and movie industries don't seem to realize is that they're essentially becoming redundant. Their product isn't necessary for life like food, heat, transportation, clothes and shelter are. In a bad economy (like we have right now), those things take precedence over music and movies. Restaurants are taking it on the chin too...last week I went to my favorite one (after almost a year) and the normally full restaurant was almost empty. Car sales are so in the toilet that that they are throwing out 0% financing for five years now, hoping that someone buys! Yet, I don't see Congress passing laws making supermarkets or busses illegal. Plus, there is a huge fight for the entertainment dollar out there. Video games, digital TV, DVD, Satellite TV and radio, paint ball, fishing, camping and about 100 other things are competing for it. The RIAA and MPAA should be kissing the ground that their consumers are still loyal after them calling them criminals, rather then intimidating them in court!.
I just filed a patent titled: "System for Insuring Uninterrupted Habitation of Rented Domicile for a Specific Period of Time". My patent application describes a method whereby a person, couple of family can insure uninterrupted habitation of their rented domicile for a mutually agreed upon amount of time. A modified version of this system codifies certain enhancements such as who pays for trash pickup and gardening at the domicile. I believe that my system is sufficently different from Netflix's, as theirs describes a DVD, while mine describes a domicile. (In other words, we both patented the LEASE, just for two different things).
Those patents were applied for many, many years ago. Therefore, patent pending protection has been in affect for decades. The net result is to effectively extend patents by decades. This is wrong. The patent clock should be retroactive to the day the patent was filed, because the protection effectively is. These are extreme examples of that...but I've got to wonder how many other unexploded 'time bombs' like these are still out there.
Uhm..excuse me...but shouldn't the FBI be out chasing violent criminals and terrorists, rather than busting teenagers for downloading Britney Spears? Besides...it seems to me that all these wasted hours protecting the obsolete business models of private companies like the RIAA and MPAA might also be spent training agents more....as in making the 'intelligence' community a bit more intelligent.
I used to be able to buy an album and find I liked at least half the songs on it. Not any more. What I find today is maybe two good songs and 10 'fillers'. Fillers is a term coined from the days of the 45 when you had the hit on one side and the other side was known as the "B" side. The B cut was the filler. Bands like the Beatles would not release album cuts on 45 because they felt it cheapened the value of their albums. They wanted their fans to have the best value possible. The CD eliminated the 45 and that's too bad, because it killed the "One hit wonder"; meaning those bands that had one or two songs that were hits before they faded into obscurity. Problem is, those bands are still around, but now they record 12 songs, only one or two of which is usually any good! I find it amusing that bands these days are bitching and moaning over what's basically a rebirth of the 45! Could this be because it will show them up for the mediocre musicians they are? Or is it because the entry bar has been lowered to once again allow "one hit wonders' to flourish? Or is it (SFX of cash register "ka ching" in the background) over the almighty buck? I think we all know the answer, don't we?