MTV has, finally - after flirting with the idea for years - officallly announced they will cut back to about 10 videos a week. It recieved a mention in TV Guide's Cheers and Jeers last week or the week before (I'm sure someone could find out).
From now on, they will select these very few videos, and then air them constantly.
You mean MTV is actualy going to play Music videos now!? This is great!
I think someone just going to collage during the Grunge era in the early 90's wouldn't have felt that way, unless they really loved Michael Jackson and Stryper. Since they were on the 'rise' of the music industries 'innovative' wave.
I'm sure you've heard of the music industries cycles, poppy BS for a while, then they get innovative stuff for a while, then more poppy bullshit. Except right now we should be on the falling end of the poppy bullshit, but where is the new stuff? Where's the nirvana of the 21st century? Where's the Perl Jam, where's the Smashing Pumpkins!?
They're not around. Instead, we get poppy bullshit wrapped in a 'indi' wrapper, moronic stuff like Avril Levine. (Holy Christ, I can't stand her... Sooo fake, I mean what self-respecting angsty teen would ever write such bland lyrics?). Not to mention shat like Linkin Park, which is just a 'refocused' boy band. Papa Roach, and, god forbid, CREED.
So, music really is getting much worse. Personally, I hope the music industry chokes on it's own shit and dies.
Only if the analog sound is perfectly recorded and stored. Analog media has a 'sample rate' and 'bit-depth' just like digital media, created by the physical characteristics of the media.
For example, if you were storing music on a record with the needle traveling along the disc at one meter per second, and the needle track resolution was 100 microns, it would be equivalent to a 10khz sampled digital recording. If the needle's pitch was one millimeter, then it would be equivalent to a digital recording with just a 3.3219 bit depth (log 10, base 2), regardless of how fast the needle was spinning.
Making smaller and smaller tracks and more precise analog media is difficult. Just look at how much money is spent on building CPU fabrication plants and stuff. To improve digital sound all you need to do is crank up the sample rate (more then 32bit samples are a waste).
By the way, you can easily create digital media now that can produce far better sound then could ever be played back with normal speakers, recorded with regular microphones, or even heard by human ears.
Seriously, these companies are only worth a couple hundred million. If 10% of the napster users during the height paid $20 they'd probably be able to buy one whole.
Not that it would ever happen, but I'd be willing to bet that if all the anti-music industry types pooled their disposable income we could buy the industry wholesale.
Can you quantify what you mean by 'forced'?
Well, different people like different writing styles. How about: "The driver turned off the window shades, and sunlight filled the bus. The passengers groaned."
I also like Amy Tan, at least I liked the joy luck club. the bonesetters daughter got to be a little dull after a while.
I also really liked The Satanic Verses but I set the book down when the story got really weird (after the two get to that old ladies house )and haven't picked it up since then. Maybe at some point I will.
I don't really read as much as I'd like to though.
I might give your book another chance at some point, but it's mostly a time issue.
So you can turn Off tcpa , then the OS could turn it back on 'for' you.
Actualy, the system needs to be started when the computer is powered up, otherwise it dosn't work. The AMI guy mentioned that, but he didn't really emphasize it as much as he should have. if TCPA could be started back up by the OS, then it could also be started back up by some cracking software, or something.
Here Brian reinforces that you and I are consumers, not customers - mobo manufacturers are customers, and they get the features they want.
Wtf, of course they mobo manufacturers are the customers, they are the ones writing the checks and taking the stuff. They, for whatever reason, want TCPA. It would be retarded for them not to include it, for reasons that they outlined above.
The only real question is how effectively TCPM can be disabled by the user. You can turn it off if you want to, rather then buying hardware without it.
I mean, minivans and SUVs are practically the same thing given how most people use them, but that doesn't mean that all SUV drivers are going to switch to Minivans.
Besides a programming language does something that an OS is never supposed to do, make things human writable (and hopefully readable). Back in the days of DOS you could say people coded to the OS as much as the PL (especially if you were talking about writing ASM) but today they are vastly different.
Another difference is that the OS does it's job in real time, while a PL doesn't need to.
If you want to say that programming 'environments' like the Standard Template Lib, the JVM,.NET, the stuff in CPAN are equivalent to OSs, then that makes sense. But the language itself is not an OS.
I didn't actualy get very far, because after reading the first few paragraphs I had this feeling that reading about bored people might be boring. I don't know why...
I'm pretty sure the most important part of getting a book published is getting a book finished. I'm sure there's a lot of crap that gets rejected, but I'm certan that there's a ton of cool stuff that never gets past the 10th page.
There is a huge difference between 'interesting' and 'syntactically incorrect'. Besides, why exactly is it important for someone to have good grammar when criticizing someone's ability to tell an interesting story?
Lee-Daniel flipped the windows to transparent and let the sun shine in, provoking groans from the corporation.
bleh, what drab writing. Provoking just seems to be the wrong word here, in fact I think it might be totally wrong. If I were writing, I would have said something like:
"The driver flipped a switch, and the voltage across the windows went to zero. They became clear, and sunlight flooded into the bus. The corporation didn't like it. It -- they -- groaned."
I wonder if salon would ever publish any of my cyberpunk crap. My guess is this guy knows somebody, his stuff is so boring.
What you can set is how much of a karma bonus you want to give people when you view the page. It dosn't really affect anything, and now there's no real reprocussion for not checking the box, as your posts can't go past -1.
Old and busted: Users with 25+ karma have their posts modded up by one automatically.
New hotness: Users with 25+ karma have a 'karma bonus'. The karma bonus is just a bit saying that the post carries the karma bonus. on your preferences page you can go in and assign a value for the karma bonus, this value can be anywhere from -6 to +6, and will be added to the moderation post of any post that has a karma bonus. The default value is zero, so everyone who was posting at 2 now appears to be posting at 1.
It's nice how they let us know about little changes like this. I'm sure they're not getting any email from anyone asking what happened to their bonus.
Go under prefrences/comments, they now have a 'karma bonus' option where you can set however much of a bonus you want for 'elevated' users. It's set to +0 by default.
RIAA, on the other hand, might have a case against 'em.
I'm not really familiar with the Apple license agreement for the iTune's API, is it something you need to download separately and sign a contract for? Or is it just something that's 'there' and you just need the right header files (or whatever) like the Windows Media API?
Lots of software companies seem to love proclaiming legal rights they don't have and sending out C&D's based on them, but that doesn't mean they actually have a case.
If it's true that the guy had an actual contract with apple, then they might have a case, but there's no legal way to stop someone from reverse engineering so way of interoperating with iTunes and creating a sharing system.
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I'm not sure about the sprite ads, but I do remember those Dirty Vegas tracks from the Mitsubishi eclips ads.
It didn't hurt that the band had an amazing video for the song, did you ever see it? Probably one of hte greatest music videos of all time.
MTV has, finally - after flirting with the idea for years - officallly announced they will cut back to about 10 videos a week. It recieved a mention in TV Guide's Cheers and Jeers last week or the week before (I'm sure someone could find out).
From now on, they will select these very few videos, and then air them constantly.
You mean MTV is actualy going to play Music videos now!? This is great!
I think someone just going to collage during the Grunge era in the early 90's wouldn't have felt that way, unless they really loved Michael Jackson and Stryper. Since they were on the 'rise' of the music industries 'innovative' wave.
I'm sure you've heard of the music industries cycles, poppy BS for a while, then they get innovative stuff for a while, then more poppy bullshit. Except right now we should be on the falling end of the poppy bullshit, but where is the new stuff? Where's the nirvana of the 21st century? Where's the Perl Jam, where's the Smashing Pumpkins!?
They're not around. Instead, we get poppy bullshit wrapped in a 'indi' wrapper, moronic stuff like Avril Levine. (Holy Christ, I can't stand her... Sooo fake, I mean what self-respecting angsty teen would ever write such bland lyrics?). Not to mention shat like Linkin Park, which is just a 'refocused' boy band. Papa Roach, and, god forbid, CREED.
So, music really is getting much worse. Personally, I hope the music industry chokes on it's own shit and dies.
+5? That comment is seriously underrated. One of the funniest thing I've seen on slashdot in a while :P
Only if the analog sound is perfectly recorded and stored. Analog media has a 'sample rate' and 'bit-depth' just like digital media, created by the physical characteristics of the media.
For example, if you were storing music on a record with the needle traveling along the disc at one meter per second, and the needle track resolution was 100 microns, it would be equivalent to a 10khz sampled digital recording. If the needle's pitch was one millimeter, then it would be equivalent to a digital recording with just a 3.3219 bit depth (log 10, base 2), regardless of how fast the needle was spinning.
Making smaller and smaller tracks and more precise analog media is difficult. Just look at how much money is spent on building CPU fabrication plants and stuff. To improve digital sound all you need to do is crank up the sample rate (more then 32bit samples are a waste).
By the way, you can easily create digital media now that can produce far better sound then could ever be played back with normal speakers, recorded with regular microphones, or even heard by human ears.
Q: Why are they called Compact Disks?
A: Because they are Disk-shaped, and because we have made a compact with the devil.
Lol!
Seriously, these companies are only worth a couple hundred million. If 10% of the napster users during the height paid $20 they'd probably be able to buy one whole.
Not that it would ever happen, but I'd be willing to bet that if all the anti-music industry types pooled their disposable income we could buy the industry wholesale.
Ah well.
Can you quantify what you mean by 'forced'? Well, different people like different writing styles. How about: "The driver turned off the window shades, and sunlight filled the bus. The passengers groaned."
I also like Amy Tan, at least I liked the joy luck club. the bonesetters daughter got to be a little dull after a while.
I also really liked The Satanic Verses but I set the book down when the story got really weird (after the two get to that old ladies house )and haven't picked it up since then. Maybe at some point I will.
I don't really read as much as I'd like to though.
I might give your book another chance at some point, but it's mostly a time issue.
So you can turn Off tcpa , then the OS could turn it back on 'for' you.
Actualy, the system needs to be started when the computer is powered up, otherwise it dosn't work. The AMI guy mentioned that, but he didn't really emphasize it as much as he should have. if TCPA could be started back up by the OS, then it could also be started back up by some cracking software, or something.
Here Brian reinforces that you and I are consumers, not customers - mobo manufacturers are customers, and they get the features they want.
Wtf, of course they mobo manufacturers are the customers, they are the ones writing the checks and taking the stuff. They, for whatever reason, want TCPA. It would be retarded for them not to include it, for reasons that they outlined above.
The only real question is how effectively TCPM can be disabled by the user. You can turn it off if you want to, rather then buying hardware without it.
Because your brain doesn't have DRM...
Yet...
bwuahahahahahahha ha!
I mean, minivans and SUVs are practically the same thing given how most people use them, but that doesn't mean that all SUV drivers are going to switch to Minivans.
.NET, the stuff in CPAN are equivalent to OSs, then that makes sense. But the language itself is not an OS.
Besides a programming language does something that an OS is never supposed to do, make things human writable (and hopefully readable). Back in the days of DOS you could say people coded to the OS as much as the PL (especially if you were talking about writing ASM) but today they are vastly different.
Another difference is that the OS does it's job in real time, while a PL doesn't need to.
If you want to say that programming 'environments' like the Standard Template Lib, the JVM,
I learn best by demonstration and instruction so CBT CD-ROMs and 'go-read-a-book' aren't viable options for me.
If by 'best' you mean 'only' then that sentance might make sense. Otherwise, go read a damn book.
He's a published author, which would explain why salon would run this. I wonder if they paid him for it? Doubtfull, given salon's financials.
Subversion is so much more cyberpunk, man.
I didn't actualy get very far, because after reading the first few paragraphs I had this feeling that reading about bored people might be boring. I don't know why...
I'm pretty sure the most important part of getting a book published is getting a book finished. I'm sure there's a lot of crap that gets rejected, but I'm certan that there's a ton of cool stuff that never gets past the 10th page.
There is a huge difference between 'interesting' and 'syntactically incorrect'. Besides, why exactly is it important for someone to have good grammar when criticizing someone's ability to tell an interesting story?
Lee-Daniel flipped the windows to transparent and let the sun shine in, provoking groans from the corporation.
bleh, what drab writing. Provoking just seems to be the wrong word here, in fact I think it might be totally wrong. If I were writing, I would have said something like:
"The driver flipped a switch, and the voltage across the windows went to zero. They became clear, and sunlight flooded into the bus. The corporation didn't like it. It -- they -- groaned."
I wonder if salon would ever publish any of my cyberpunk crap. My guess is this guy knows somebody, his stuff is so boring.
What you can set is how much of a karma bonus you want to give people when you view the page. It dosn't really affect anything, and now there's no real reprocussion for not checking the box, as your posts can't go past -1.
Old and busted: Users with 25+ karma have their posts modded up by one automatically.
New hotness: Users with 25+ karma have a 'karma bonus'. The karma bonus is just a bit saying that the post carries the karma bonus. on your preferences page you can go in and assign a value for the karma bonus, this value can be anywhere from -6 to +6, and will be added to the moderation post of any post that has a karma bonus. The default value is zero, so everyone who was posting at 2 now appears to be posting at 1.
It's nice how they let us know about little changes like this. I'm sure they're not getting any email from anyone asking what happened to their bonus.
Go to Preffrences/comments, go down to "Karma Bonus" and set it to one, and sanity will return to the world (for you at least)
Go under prefrences/comments, they now have a 'karma bonus' option where you can set however much of a bonus you want for 'elevated' users. It's set to +0 by default.
RIAA, on the other hand, might have a case against 'em.
I'm not really familiar with the Apple license agreement for the iTune's API, is it something you need to download separately and sign a contract for? Or is it just something that's 'there' and you just need the right header files (or whatever) like the Windows Media API?
Lots of software companies seem to love proclaiming legal rights they don't have and sending out C&D's based on them, but that doesn't mean they actually have a case.
If it's true that the guy had an actual contract with apple, then they might have a case, but there's no legal way to stop someone from reverse engineering so way of interoperating with iTunes and creating a sharing system.