You're right, buying from allofmp3.com is probably not paying much to the artist. You could however say the same for the 99c tracks you download from iTunes et al. Paying the RIAA != paying the artists.
The only different from my point of view is that at least allofmp3.com aren't gouging their customers.
I've bought loads of albums from allofmp3 without a problem. Don't think they're dodgy just because English isn't their mother tongue.
And as stated before, if only the *other* legal services had their level of service - they allow you to download unencrypted files in any format/bitrate you like, from mp3 to mpc. That makes them worth using in my opinion.
Good point, but what most people liked about the nvidia APU was the realtime DD encoding - not the nice d/a converters that nvidia specced but most manufacturers discarded in place of crappy realtek codecs. This DD encoding was on lots of boards, and for someone like me who uses sp/dif the quality of the analogue outs is moot anyways.
The motherboard mfgrs weren't getting enough positive feedback from it, it was expensive (the Dolby license was not the only reason), and Creative bought Sensura, whose technology it used.
That might not be true. According to hexus and theinquirer.net, soundstorm will return in the next chipset iteration. Which is nice - the sound on my nforce boards is fantastic.
If you want x86 processors AMD already realesed their Geode [amd.com] line for low-power mobile solutions.
Have you ever built embedded or other low-power devices with a Geode? They're horrible. The problems are down to be b0rked DMA implementation which locks up at random, interrupts don't happen when you expect them to or in a decent timeframe, a crappy framebuffer which compresses the screen (with associated time penalty) whenever it changes, I could go on.
Oh, and I know this is specific to the board I used, but the 'hardware watchdog' was actually software emulation (much like the Geode sound 'hardware') which is no good when the board hangs and therefore so does the watchdog.
Rubbish. I copy.avi files of a similar size over my lan all the time, and it'll take maximum a couple of minutes. That's unless something is misconfigured (say for example dma not enabled on a drive) which i'd imagine is happening here. Either that, or the tivo is having to encrypt the data before sending.
We call them Americans, and they're bound by the same laws you are! Neat, huh?
Really? You're a disgrace to your country, is the internet solely American or are you another one of their muppets that have never been out of the USA?
I live in the UK. Does that mean you'd actively discriminate against me?
Who even said the O.P was American?
And what if the rest of the world decided to take the same attitude as you? Call me nuts, but I actually like Microsoft Office and i'd hate for it to be more expensive because some turd of a British politician decided to support 'our' products with big fat import tariffs.
I've been affected by offshoring too - there's next to zero opportunity round here for coders (Gloucestershire, England) as so many companies have moved their development to India. I'm now working at a small company for whom the logistics of dealing with India would be too much. Things change, change with them.
I know the cpu usage is the problem - I stated so, compression only alleviates the bandwidth, at the expense of a (minor) increase in CPU and memory bandwidth requirements. For some applications, it'd be fine.
This said, my original point still stands - to mod the O.P as 'funny' shows a lack of knowledge in the moderators.
Remember too that HTTP supports compressed data, and believe me that XML is prime material for compression - it's repeatable and uses a limited ascii set - and a compressed XML document will not be a lot different in size than one written in some binary XML format.
I'm no fan of XML - most of the real-world implementations (Origo, for a start) that i've seen simply apply a relational model to the XML translation, which is not only missing the point but is sub-optimal too.
Why is that modded funny? The O.P is correct - plain text gets compressed to hell by most browsers for a start. It doesn't help with processing requirements (using XML in the first place is a big drain compared to a well designed binary file) but it does render the bandwidth question moot.
The stupid thing is, I do have (most) of these, but they've been picked up on by HR types who deign them to be more important than they are. I know people who work there already and they wouldn't know anything about XML bar the MSXML parser.
So in that job it's an irrelevance, but the HR eejits still insist I plaster it loudly and proudly on my CV.
Damn right. I put my CV forward for a new job last week, the recruitment 'pimp' got back to me and said, although the CV was ideal, I needed to put XML on at least 3 previous jobs? Why? It's not like learning to use it takes any more than a couple of days, what with the different parsers and such, and therefore I just left it off my CV.
The way I felt was that it's a marginal skill, and having to put it on my cv 3 times to placate some idiot in the HR department annoyed me.
What is it about people that makes them think XML is not only complex, but also the universal panacea to all programming ills?
... but the award is actually decided firstly by a 'relevent' government committee, and the prime minister comes in later on. At no point does the Queen decide who receives the awards - she simply hands them over.
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the 2 main job requirements in IT: the ability to RTFM/Google...
True. I use google more than any online/dead tree help if I get stuck. That said, the mark of a professional is knowing what to search for and if you don't understand the system enough you ain't going to know.
Let me be the one to point out (and point out with my identity shown) that copyright is protected by federal law [copyright.gov]. I'm not going to talk about right and wrong, but I am going to point out that the monkies out there who have a copy'n'paste "copyright is a civil issue" for every piracy story on/. have no idea what they're copying and pasting about.
Yes, but this isn't the case in Europe (yet), so hows about telling your government to stop pressuring us into toeing their line? Cheers.
Not if it was linked to a securid keyfob or similar.
In fact i'd pay money to buy one of these, then maybe 10 UKP a year subscription to have them build the infrastructure to support it, assuming that they made it cheap and easy for other companies to hook into it.
[blockquote]I hate software licensing as much as anyone on/., but when a company like Valve goes out of their way to offer something in exchange for the authentication hassle - they deserve a fair shake. [/blockquote]
So how do you stand on Microsoft's product activation then? Especially as it's more flexible, giving you both a grace period and the ability to do it all over the phone?
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I completely agree with all of that.
I've got 30205 'tunes' in my foobar2000 playlist. Most of them are CDs that I have ripped, a 5th or so are tunes i've downloaded. I'm quite proud of my collection and whenever anyone can't find a tune they like on it i'll note it down and get it next time i'm looking or buying. It's nice to have loads of music on tap. My server can stream to me at work through a web interface as well as servicing the other 2 clients at home. It's about 190gb of music, mainly in musepack format but with some flac and mp3. I've also got 110gb of video online, rips of my dvds and downloaded stuff.
The problem is, as I suspect this guy is ignoring, is that most of his collection is going to be shit. It'll either have no tags, or be completely mislabelled (ever tried to d/l the latest blockbuster film and it turns out to be Ghostbusters?), or even worse have incorrect tags. In a collection that size organisation is everything and he's either a muppet who spends all day tagging his files or his collection is going to be full of crap.
I'm willing to bet a good chunk of that collection is 128kbps mp3 made with some dumbass encoder off a ripped (and already compressed) stream.
Genres are another matter altogether. I've ignored them, seeing as one mans goth is another mans 80s.
ATI makes video cards. The average office has no need of a high end video platform for their desktops. This is going to appeal to geeks that make their own machine and finally have an excuse to go 64-bit.
Maybe, but thinking about it this would be an easy sell for corporates upgrading their machines as the dx9 IGP should be Longhorn compatible. Not that we'll see that in the next 2 years, but corporates don't change desktops too often.
After the last LinuxWorld debacle I now refuse to click on LinuxWorld links. For once, I am not reading the article, and for a principled reason. Until LinuxWorld terminates Ms. O'Gara and denounces her page-view-whoring troll tactics, they will get no ad impressions from me.
This is almost as bad as posting Roland Piquepaille submissions.
Sure, on an uncompressed mpeg4, you can just fseek() where you need to go and pick right up
What are you on about? What is an 'uncompressed' mpeg4 file? The real issue is the bitrate, is it variable or fixed per frame? Most decent codecs are the latter and you need to build an offset list to handle ffw correctly. Rewind is even harder that ffw, especially with b-frames.
Depends. I'd move my desktop and server over to Linux now if there was the equivalent of foobar2000 to play my tunes with.
The list of problems with Linux setups of this time are endless - no gapless playback, spotty compatibility with some codecs, ugly front ends etc etc. I'd love to move over, but this is preventing me.
As an aside, my company makes Linux based hardware for displays in betting shops which generally have 20-30 TVs, all controlled by one box. Most of our hardware is custom, but it's all controlled by the Linux portion. The idea was to be able display mpeg video too, but compatibility/driver availability/etc were so spotty it was pointless.
All these things aren't the fault of Linux itself, but they are problems. I'd go with the bloke who installed XP on a cheapo computer - it's the route i've gone. One day when Linux has more options i'll go with that.
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You're right, buying from allofmp3.com is probably not paying much to the artist. You could however say the same for the 99c tracks you download from iTunes et al. Paying the RIAA != paying the artists.
The only different from my point of view is that at least allofmp3.com aren't gouging their customers.
I've bought loads of albums from allofmp3 without a problem. Don't think they're dodgy just because English isn't their mother tongue.
And as stated before, if only the *other* legal services had their level of service - they allow you to download unencrypted files in any format/bitrate you like, from mp3 to mpc. That makes them worth using in my opinion.
Good point, but what most people liked about the nvidia APU was the realtime DD encoding - not the nice d/a converters that nvidia specced but most manufacturers discarded in place of crappy realtek codecs. This DD encoding was on lots of boards, and for someone like me who uses sp/dif the quality of the analogue outs is moot anyways.
That might not be true. According to hexus and theinquirer.net, soundstorm will return in the next chipset iteration. Which is nice - the sound on my nforce boards is fantastic.
Have you ever built embedded or other low-power devices with a Geode? They're horrible. The problems are down to be b0rked DMA implementation which locks up at random, interrupts don't happen when you expect them to or in a decent timeframe, a crappy framebuffer which compresses the screen (with associated time penalty) whenever it changes, I could go on.
Oh, and I know this is specific to the board I used, but the 'hardware watchdog' was actually software emulation (much like the Geode sound 'hardware') which is no good when the board hangs and therefore so does the watchdog.
Nasty pieces of kit. Don't bother.
Rubbish. I copy .avi files of a similar size over my lan all the time, and it'll take maximum a couple of minutes. That's unless something is misconfigured (say for example dma not enabled on a drive) which i'd imagine is happening here. Either that, or the tivo is having to encrypt the data before sending.
You're right. Standardise my arse, it's more they want other companies to fill the gaps in their content.
Really? You're a disgrace to your country, is the internet solely American or are you another one of their muppets that have never been out of the USA?
I live in the UK. Does that mean you'd actively discriminate against me?
Who even said the O.P was American?
And what if the rest of the world decided to take the same attitude as you? Call me nuts, but I actually like Microsoft Office and i'd hate for it to be more expensive because some turd of a British politician decided to support 'our' products with big fat import tariffs.
I've been affected by offshoring too - there's next to zero opportunity round here for coders (Gloucestershire, England) as so many companies have moved their development to India. I'm now working at a small company for whom the logistics of dealing with India would be too much. Things change, change with them.
I know the cpu usage is the problem - I stated so, compression only alleviates the bandwidth, at the expense of a (minor) increase in CPU and memory bandwidth requirements. For some applications, it'd be fine.
This said, my original point still stands - to mod the O.P as 'funny' shows a lack of knowledge in the moderators.
Remember too that HTTP supports compressed data, and believe me that XML is prime material for compression - it's repeatable and uses a limited ascii set - and a compressed XML document will not be a lot different in size than one written in some binary XML format.
I'm no fan of XML - most of the real-world implementations (Origo, for a start) that i've seen simply apply a relational model to the XML translation, which is not only missing the point but is sub-optimal too.
Why is that modded funny? The O.P is correct - plain text gets compressed to hell by most browsers for a start. It doesn't help with processing requirements (using XML in the first place is a big drain compared to a well designed binary file) but it does render the bandwidth question moot.
Good point.
The stupid thing is, I do have (most) of these, but they've been picked up on by HR types who deign them to be more important than they are. I know people who work there already and they wouldn't know anything about XML bar the MSXML parser.
So in that job it's an irrelevance, but the HR eejits still insist I plaster it loudly and proudly on my CV.
Damn right. I put my CV forward for a new job last week, the recruitment 'pimp' got back to me and said, although the CV was ideal, I needed to put XML on at least 3 previous jobs? Why? It's not like learning to use it takes any more than a couple of days, what with the different parsers and such, and therefore I just left it off my CV.
The way I felt was that it's a marginal skill, and having to put it on my cv 3 times to placate some idiot in the HR department annoyed me.
What is it about people that makes them think XML is not only complex, but also the universal panacea to all programming ills?
... but the award is actually decided firstly by a 'relevent' government committee, and the prime minister comes in later on. At no point does the Queen decide who receives the awards - she simply hands them over.
True. I use google more than any online/dead tree help if I get stuck. That said, the mark of a professional is knowing what to search for and if you don't understand the system enough you ain't going to know.
Yes, but this isn't the case in Europe (yet), so hows about telling your government to stop pressuring us into toeing their line? Cheers.
If you need admin rights to run Cakewalk then complain to them, not MS. It's their badly written software at fault.
I'd suspect the real issue is something to do with asio drivers by the way.
Not if it was linked to a securid keyfob or similar.
In fact i'd pay money to buy one of these, then maybe 10 UKP a year subscription to have them build the infrastructure to support it, assuming that they made it cheap and easy for other companies to hook into it.
[blockquote]I hate software licensing as much as anyone on /., but when a company like Valve goes out of their way to offer something in exchange for the authentication hassle - they deserve a fair shake. [/blockquote]
So how do you stand on Microsoft's product activation then? Especially as it's more flexible, giving you both a grace period and the ability to do it all over the phone?
I completely agree with all of that.
I've got 30205 'tunes' in my foobar2000 playlist. Most of them are CDs that I have ripped, a 5th or so are tunes i've downloaded. I'm quite proud of my collection and whenever anyone can't find a tune they like on it i'll note it down and get it next time i'm looking or buying. It's nice to have loads of music on tap. My server can stream to me at work through a web interface as well as servicing the other 2 clients at home. It's about 190gb of music, mainly in musepack format but with some flac and mp3. I've also got 110gb of video online, rips of my dvds and downloaded stuff.
The problem is, as I suspect this guy is ignoring, is that most of his collection is going to be shit. It'll either have no tags, or be completely mislabelled (ever tried to d/l the latest blockbuster film and it turns out to be Ghostbusters?), or even worse have incorrect tags. In a collection that size organisation is everything and he's either a muppet who spends all day tagging his files or his collection is going to be full of crap.
I'm willing to bet a good chunk of that collection is 128kbps mp3 made with some dumbass encoder off a ripped (and already compressed) stream.
Genres are another matter altogether. I've ignored them, seeing as one mans goth is another mans 80s.
No girlfriend or social life eh?
Maybe, but thinking about it this would be an easy sell for corporates upgrading their machines as the dx9 IGP should be Longhorn compatible. Not that we'll see that in the next 2 years, but corporates don't change desktops too often.
Get over yourself.
Fair point, though i've never personally seen an uncompressed mpeg4 file.
The reference to b-frames also applies only to video, not audio which is the case here, but it's still a valid point.
What are you on about? What is an 'uncompressed' mpeg4 file? The real issue is the bitrate, is it variable or fixed per frame? Most decent codecs are the latter and you need to build an offset list to handle ffw correctly. Rewind is even harder that ffw, especially with b-frames.
Depends. I'd move my desktop and server over to Linux now if there was the equivalent of foobar2000 to play my tunes with.
The list of problems with Linux setups of this time are endless - no gapless playback, spotty compatibility with some codecs, ugly front ends etc etc. I'd love to move over, but this is preventing me.
As an aside, my company makes Linux based hardware for displays in betting shops which generally have 20-30 TVs, all controlled by one box. Most of our hardware is custom, but it's all controlled by the Linux portion. The idea was to be able display mpeg video too, but compatibility/driver availability/etc were so spotty it was pointless.
All these things aren't the fault of Linux itself, but they are problems. I'd go with the bloke who installed XP on a cheapo computer - it's the route i've gone. One day when Linux has more options i'll go with that.