Fuck it. With the huge steaming crock of garbage being the radio as-is, I don't even want to listen to it. Commercials everywhere, songs fading into each other or DJs talking over the song, or even just the song being cut off early. I don't want to listen to partial songs, I don't want to listen to annoying nagging people in between songs or overlapping songs. I don't want to listen to the shitty selection most stations play, especially considering that they only play singles and never any of the other tracks on an album. There are some great tracks that have never even been aired, probably, or at least 1% of the time when they're not recycling singles. But that's AM/FM radio.
You're not alone. For some years now many people have been abandoning FM radio for internet radio because of at least a few of your feelings. The RIAA making a stink about internet radio is nothing new; back in 2002 they were attacking internet radio directly (setting their sights on SHOUTcast), now they're looking at satellite radio.
There's nothing new to see here: same old RIAA -- albeit under new leadership from 2002 -- trying to stifle yet another medium that proposes even the slightest threat to their monopolistic practices. Be sure to voice your opinion to your congressman.
I've always wondered why there is a need for a movie of this...the six TV episodes themselves make for a great story, and there is nothing more that a movie could do aside from shorten the storyline.
Serious? Money. The storyline is already written, others have tried to make it into a radio show and TV series, so they can take what they like and don't like based on what previously worked. And it's a space flick, so there's a valid excuse to shove in CG everywhere. Making a movie like this takes very small investment for a guaranteed higher return.
Since when does Hollywood make anything for the sake of art?
They key is to set your alarm clock to 18 minutes ahead, or some other odd number. This way -- when you wake up early in the morning -- you'll be too tired and out of it to try and figure the math and get up out of bed simply out of frustration.
But executives also determined that MSN's structure was
making it harder for Microsoft to ensure that it remained permanently profitable, said David Cole, Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of MSN.
In business, nothing should be considered "permanently profitable." This is pure MS business thinking here.
What's a record company supposed to do with an artist whose album has a slim chance of even going gold?
You're implying that we, the customers, make up for their lousy artists who don't sell by paying upwards of 5x what it actually costs to make a CD so they come out at least even?!? That's ridiculous! If such a low percentage or their roster have a tough time selling one million copies, this should be a clue to put more effort into finding better talent. Or realize that the days of artists selling ~25 million copies and making ~50 million dollars are coming to an end.
Diversify (there's that word again)! Instead of 10 different bands/groups sell 8 million copies, get 50 different [good] artists to sell even 500,000 copies.
I used to do nightly backups to a tap. One day, that server crashed severely on me and I had lost 90% of the data on the hard drives. I thought I was safe because of the nightly backups but when I tried to read the tapes from a different machine I kept getting an error saying the tape is unreadable and needs to be reformatted! I have *years* of C++ code from college, personal stuff and my business that I can't access -- not to mention GB's of other important information.
Neddless to say I don't trust my DAT drive anymore and I've moved onto CD-R's.
I think their biggest concern is that P2P makes the market for music fair for the consumer instead of biased in the RIAA's favor.
That <I>is</I> their biggest fear. Before the internet, before the MP3, and way before file sharing, the RIAA was in control of how, what and where music was distributed.
Now, we the consumers have the option. We can sample a CD and decide whether to spend up to $20 for it, whereas before it was gamble. It is <B>much</B> easier for us to hear artists that we would otherwise never have heard about, artists from other countries even.
These are the things the RIAA doesn't want. They're operating in an obsolete market and they're just trying to hang in there as long as possible or trying to prevent progress.
Um, I'd hate to do this, but your for() loop won't execute. Since 'x' is assigned the value 1 and the loop condition is for x to be greater than 1 million, the loop will exit without doing anything.
Should be: for( x=1; x<=1,000,000; x++ ) {... }
Oh god, I'm correcting C code on Slashdot!! Why don't I have anything to do at work?!
A Step in the Right Direction?
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"Squishy" DRM?
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I glad to see that there is some effort being put into a compromise on this DRM thing. As much as I'd like the hardware/software companies to "just say no", it's not in their best interest to do that. For every company out there that says no, there are 3 others that can't wait to get in bed with DRM and profit from it.
I'm not so sure that voting does any good these days, with politicians being easily bought, but we can be heard with our dollars! Just Don't Buy It! We may be a minority in this but out dollars do count! The consumers should not have to comprimise to the products; the companies producing these products should be comprimising to the consumers' demands.
I already posted this link but it got burried in replies up above. I also probably should have mirrored the MPEG from the beginning. Anyway, go easy on my server please ^^;
It won't. If this passes it'll mean that the people in charge (paid by the RIAA) have sat down and carefully crafted a scheme to let off the terestrial stations (also paid by the RIAA) but not let the webcasters off at all. The only way I could see it benefit us webcasters is if it passes, all of us will cry not fair and it will be [even more] obvious that they're out to put webcasters out of business.
The more I read and hear about this the more is sickens me! Lately the US has been run by big corporations who buy their way into Congress =\
In my area, Triad NC, we've got the Prevue channel. the screen is split about 60-40 (40% being the ad space). The top half of the screen is nothing but commercials, not infomercials (you have to wait till 4am for those). The bottom of the screen shows what's on TV with an extremely slow-scrolling bar showing channel by channel....just extremely slow so you have to stick around a bit to get from channel 5 to the channel you're interested in, channel 50.
tvguide.com has become my choice for finding out what's on TV now. The Prevue channel just irritates me too much.
lmao!! "You have successfully booted Windows, would you like to reboot?" "You've just deleted a file, come on, reboot?" "Thank you for rebooting....wanna reboot again?"
Stupid reboots! I just cracked myself up at work, and got a whole bunch of people wondering why I'm laughing and "working" at the same time.
I live in High Point and I've known about Cosmic Castle for many, many years. Um, is it me or does it seem like the area around Cosmic has really gotten ghetto? I've almost been afraid to go there, you know how thugs love to mess with us anime freaks
@__@
Good place though. It's geared more towards the tabletop RPG'er but otherwise not bad for a North Carolina anime shop ^^
Moving to a country where the CARP ruling doesn't touch is only delaying. If the US adopts CARP, other countries will soon follow -- most notibly, Canada.
Moving to another country just/sounds/ like a good idea unfortunetly. Believe me, if it were that easy I too would be moving my station to some other country.
I think its time to go for a little Darwinian Selection. Survival of the fittest browser.
That's not what we need. What will ultimately make a difference is when all browsers render HTML according to the standard. It's only then that if a page doesn't look right, it's because of the HTML'er and not the browser (which is the main problem now). Simple.
Don't give me gadgets and gizmos in the browser, just give me something that's fast and complies to the standards -- I'll take it from there.
The XBox isn't going anywhere people. No matter how much it sucks, no matter how much better some other console is: MS will keep pouring money into its development and marketing. They will try and market this like any other of their products by cramming adverts everywhere we turn until we're brainwashed into thinking we must have one.
This is MS's next step into moving into the living room. The next few versions of the XBox will have more "features" that will make the Tivo, WebTV, cablebox, antenna, all obsolete.
Thanks alot MS, now I can get a BSOD from just turning on my TV!
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RTFM.
From TFA:
You're not alone. For some years now many people have been abandoning FM radio for internet radio because of at least a few of your feelings. The RIAA making a stink about internet radio is nothing new; back in 2002 they were attacking internet radio directly (setting their sights on SHOUTcast), now they're looking at satellite radio.
There's nothing new to see here: same old RIAA -- albeit under new leadership from 2002 -- trying to stifle yet another medium that proposes even the slightest threat to their monopolistic practices. Be sure to voice your opinion to your congressman.
Since when does Hollywood make anything for the sake of art?
They key is to set your alarm clock to 18 minutes ahead, or some other odd number. This way -- when you wake up early in the morning -- you'll be too tired and out of it to try and figure the math and get up out of bed simply out of frustration.
Works.
"The best salesman is the one who knows very little about the actual product"
What's a record company supposed to do with an artist whose album has a slim chance of even going gold?
You're implying that we, the customers, make up for their lousy artists who don't sell by paying upwards of 5x what it actually costs to make a CD so they come out at least even?!? That's ridiculous! If such a low percentage or their roster have a tough time selling one million copies, this should be a clue to put more effort into finding better talent. Or realize that the days of artists selling ~25 million copies and making ~50 million dollars are coming to an end.
Diversify (there's that word again)! Instead of 10 different bands/groups sell 8 million copies, get 50 different [good] artists to sell even 500,000 copies.
Good point.
I used to do nightly backups to a tap. One day, that server crashed severely on me and I had lost 90% of the data on the hard drives. I thought I was safe because of the nightly backups but when I tried to read the tapes from a different machine I kept getting an error saying the tape is unreadable and needs to be reformatted! I have *years* of C++ code from college, personal stuff and my business that I can't access -- not to mention GB's of other important information.
Neddless to say I don't trust my DAT drive anymore and I've moved onto CD-R's.
I would mod this as "Paranoid" instead of "Insightful".
Although, you do make a good point.
I think their biggest concern is that P2P makes the market for music fair for the consumer instead of biased in the RIAA's favor.
That <I>is</I> their biggest fear. Before the internet, before the MP3, and way before file sharing, the RIAA was in control of how, what and where music was distributed.
Now, we the consumers have the option. We can sample a CD and decide whether to spend up to $20 for it, whereas before it was gamble. It is <B>much</B> easier for us to hear artists that we would otherwise never have heard about, artists from other countries even.
These are the things the RIAA doesn't want. They're operating in an obsolete market and they're just trying to hang in there as long as possible or trying to prevent progress.
Um, I'd hate to do this, but your for() loop won't execute. Since 'x' is assigned the value 1 and the loop condition is for x to be greater than 1 million, the loop will exit without doing anything.
... }
Should be:
for( x=1; x<=1,000,000; x++ )
{
Oh god, I'm correcting C code on Slashdot!! Why don't I have anything to do at work?!
I glad to see that there is some effort being put into a compromise on this DRM thing. As much as I'd like the hardware/software companies to "just say no", it's not in their best interest to do that. For every company out there that says no, there are 3 others that can't wait to get in bed with DRM and profit from it.
I'm not so sure that voting does any good these days, with politicians being easily bought, but we can be heard with our dollars! Just Don't Buy It! We may be a minority in this but out dollars do count! The consumers should not have to comprimise to the products; the companies producing these products should be comprimising to the consumers' demands.
there is always animeFM :)
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http://www.anime.fm/download/gits-sac-trailer.mpe
I already posted this link but it got burried in replies up above. I also probably should have mirrored the MPEG from the beginning. Anyway, go easy on my server please ^^;
Here you go, please go easy on my server guys ^^
g
If it gets slashdotted give it a try later...
http://www.anime.fm/download/gits-sac-trailer.mpe
If I can get a hold of a copy (sorry, I never saved it to disk), I'll host the trailer on a US server.
Anyone saved it and care to donate?
It won't. If this passes it'll mean that the people in charge (paid by the RIAA) have sat down and carefully crafted a scheme to let off the terestrial stations (also paid by the RIAA) but not let the webcasters off at all. The only way I could see it benefit us webcasters is if it passes, all of us will cry not fair and it will be [even more] obvious that they're out to put webcasters out of business.
The more I read and hear about this the more is sickens me! Lately the US has been run by big corporations who buy their way into Congress =\
In my area, Triad NC, we've got the Prevue channel. the screen is split about 60-40 (40% being the ad space). The top half of the screen is nothing but commercials, not infomercials (you have to wait till 4am for those). The bottom of the screen shows what's on TV with an extremely slow-scrolling bar showing channel by channel....just extremely slow so you have to stick around a bit to get from channel 5 to the channel you're interested in, channel 50.
tvguide.com has become my choice for finding out what's on TV now. The Prevue channel just irritates me too much.
Empty Recycle Bin
Reboot
lmao!!
"You have successfully booted Windows, would you like to reboot?"
"You've just deleted a file, come on, reboot?"
"Thank you for rebooting....wanna reboot again?"
Stupid reboots! I just cracked myself up at work, and got a whole bunch of people wondering why I'm laughing and "working" at the same time.
I live in High Point and I've known about Cosmic Castle for many, many years. Um, is it me or does it seem like the area around Cosmic has really gotten ghetto? I've almost been afraid to go there, you know how thugs love to mess with us anime freaks
@__@
Good place though. It's geared more towards the tabletop RPG'er but otherwise not bad for a North Carolina anime shop ^^
Hey, it's kinda cool holding a webserver in your hand and being able to walk around with it.
/. pretty quickly, you'd better put it down before it blows up!
It's going to get
or even worse: they could be playing XBox!!!
*gasp*
Moving to a country where the CARP ruling doesn't touch is only delaying. If the US adopts CARP, other countries will soon follow -- most notibly, Canada.
/sounds/ like a good idea unfortunetly. Believe me, if it were that easy I too would be moving my station to some other country.
Moving to another country just
I think its time to go for a little Darwinian Selection. Survival of the fittest browser.
That's not what we need. What will ultimately make a difference is when all browsers render HTML according to the standard. It's only then that if a page doesn't look right, it's because of the HTML'er and not the browser (which is the main problem now). Simple.
Don't give me gadgets and gizmos in the browser, just give me something that's fast and complies to the standards -- I'll take it from there.
The XBox isn't going anywhere people. No matter how much it sucks, no matter how much better some other console is: MS will keep pouring money into its development and marketing. They will try and market this like any other of their products by cramming adverts everywhere we turn until we're brainwashed into thinking we must have one.
This is MS's next step into moving into the living room. The next few versions of the XBox will have more "features" that will make the Tivo, WebTV, cablebox, antenna, all obsolete.
Thanks alot MS, now I can get a BSOD from just turning on my TV!