Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic
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Tackling AGP 8X
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I'm currently using a six-monitor configuration for music production. I have Sonar spread over four 19" monitors and I use two 17" monitors to display virtual intruments/effects and the MOTU console.
3D isn't a factor on this machine, but it's tricky to get three (one AGP, two PCI) dual-head displays to work side by side correctly.
Two AGP slots would permit me to use just two Parhelia (or competitors'--once they jump on the triple-head bandwagon) cards and free up PCI slots for more useful things like DSP cards.
Then, too, a configuration like that would make for a breathtaking multi-monitor gaming experience!
"Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, N'Sync and Britney Spears. "
Using a broadband connection to download that crap is like going to the Waldorf Astoria for breakfast and ordering Frosted Flakes.
Avoid in general, mostly because its meaning is often confused. It means "include" or "contain." Depending on your meaning, use those terms or consist of or make up as appropriate. Do not use comprised of.
Television networks pay for the rights to edit a film's content (actually, they pay for the broadcast rights, including specific permission to edit for broadcast). Broadcast rights cost significantly more than rental-house royalties.
This preserves the filmmakers' copyrights and permits the network to make edits (though not, generally, completely without oversight from the studio).
Clean Flicks have not paid for broadcast rights. They do not have the permission of the filmmakers to make edits. They have not paid the premium to make the edits themselves. Nor have they permitted the filmmakers to contribute to the Edit Decision List.
These are all clear copyright violations.
If Clean Flicks wants to rent edited versions of films, they can pay the same premium as the networks.
Re:Innovation is still out there...
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Napster Not To Blame
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Well, I must laud her for trying new things, both musically and culturally, even if I do find her worldview to be so bleak as to depress an entire generation into suicide.
Are there any bands/artists who don't view life as a festering sore who are doing something similar?
Is there a proper web forum for fresh acts to present their product? A web site that recognizes MP3's for what they really are: Promotional Tools???
Oh really? Which suburban community would that be?
*I* live in Seattle and I'd love to live in a neighborhood with high-speed access, especially now that WinFirst has made it clear that they won't be providing FTTH in the Seattle market within the forseeable future.
On the other hand, I can't be the only person who feels just a little uncomfortable swimming around in a constant RF bath.
But then I don't imagine that a Farady suit would be all that workable, either.;)
The crucial concept at play here is one of supply chain: If retailers have to deal with enough returns, the profit incentive of selling UMG "CD's" is more than offset by the costs of thre return transaction plus the PITA (Pain-In-The-A**) disincentive of having to reverse all of those transactions and ship the product back through the supply chain to UMG.
The key is to stress one or more nodes on the supply chain to the point where it becomes untenable for them to continue distributing UMG products. The more stress that is put on the retailers, the more stress finds its way up the supply chain until UMG starts to lose significant distribution capacity.
Not buying the "CD" at all, while not a particularly bad idea, doesn't provide the immediate disincentive that is necessary to change or reverse UMG's policy. Buying and returning a UMG "CD" does provide that disincentive. Furthermore, the more people that do it, the more prominent the situation grows until it becomes newsworthy in the mainstream media channels. Then UMG has to contend with political fallout on top of an economic loss.
At the very least, CD manufacturers who aren't as quick to jump on the copy-protection bandwagon will see the effect that consumer backlash has on distribution channels and, as a result, may choose to avoid that particular bog.
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I'm currently using a six-monitor configuration for music production. I have Sonar spread over four 19" monitors and I use two 17" monitors to display virtual intruments/effects and the MOTU console.
3D isn't a factor on this machine, but it's tricky to get three (one AGP, two PCI) dual-head displays to work side by side correctly.
Two AGP slots would permit me to use just two Parhelia (or competitors'--once they jump on the triple-head bandwagon) cards and free up PCI slots for more useful things like DSP cards.
Then, too, a configuration like that would make for a breathtaking multi-monitor gaming experience!
Blue is a harder color to generate.
Here's an article that describes some of the history and challenges of creating a semiconductor that emits blue light.
...is this guy's insanely bad taste in music:
"Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, N'Sync and Britney Spears. "
Using a broadband connection to download that crap is like going to the Waldorf Astoria for breakfast and ordering Frosted Flakes.
From MS Manual of Style v3.0:
comprise
Avoid in general, mostly because its meaning is often confused. It means "include" or "contain." Depending on your meaning, use those terms or consist of or make up as appropriate. Do not use comprised of.
Okay, here's the deal:
Television networks pay for the rights to edit a film's content (actually, they pay for the broadcast rights, including specific permission to edit for broadcast). Broadcast rights cost significantly more than rental-house royalties.
This preserves the filmmakers' copyrights and permits the network to make edits (though not, generally, completely without oversight from the studio).
Clean Flicks have not paid for broadcast rights. They do not have the permission of the filmmakers to make edits. They have not paid the premium to make the edits themselves. Nor have they permitted the filmmakers to contribute to the Edit Decision List.
These are all clear copyright violations.
If Clean Flicks wants to rent edited versions of films, they can pay the same premium as the networks.
Well, I must laud her for trying new things, both musically and culturally, even if I do find her worldview to be so bleak as to depress an entire generation into suicide. Are there any bands/artists who don't view life as a festering sore who are doing something similar? Is there a proper web forum for fresh acts to present their product? A web site that recognizes MP3's for what they really are: Promotional Tools???
Er... was there some spam that you did want?
Well, that works pretty well as long as you never MEET people...
Oh really? Which suburban community would that be?
;)
*I* live in Seattle and I'd love to live in a neighborhood with high-speed access, especially now that WinFirst has made it clear that they won't be providing FTTH in the Seattle market within the forseeable future.
On the other hand, I can't be the only person who feels just a little uncomfortable swimming around in a constant RF bath.
But then I don't imagine that a Farady suit would be all that workable, either.
Actually, the buy/return plan is a fine plan.
The crucial concept at play here is one of supply chain: If retailers have to deal with enough returns, the profit incentive of selling UMG "CD's" is more than offset by the costs of thre return transaction plus the PITA (Pain-In-The-A**) disincentive of having to reverse all of those transactions and ship the product back through the supply chain to UMG.
The key is to stress one or more nodes on the supply chain to the point where it becomes untenable for them to continue distributing UMG products. The more stress that is put on the retailers, the more stress finds its way up the supply chain until UMG starts to lose significant distribution capacity.
Not buying the "CD" at all, while not a particularly bad idea, doesn't provide the immediate disincentive that is necessary to change or reverse UMG's policy. Buying and returning a UMG "CD" does provide that disincentive. Furthermore, the more people that do it, the more prominent the situation grows until it becomes newsworthy in the mainstream media channels. Then UMG has to contend with political fallout on top of an economic loss.
At the very least, CD manufacturers who aren't as quick to jump on the copy-protection bandwagon will see the effect that consumer backlash has on distribution channels and, as a result, may choose to avoid that particular bog.