Quite right. A lot of things are supposed to "kill music" but cassette tapes didn't do it and nor will anything else.
The only thing I can imagine would do it is some pandemic virus that makes everyone tone deaf. And even then, many tone deaf people still appreciate music.
Does anyone really expect us to buy into the idea that music only exists due to the existence of the record and entertainment industry?
Speaking of which another song springs to mind, "Got along without you before I met you. Gonna get along without you now!"
Music existed before, during and after any industry.
HD-DVD? Is this really what they will be buying a PC for?
Even if some gamers will be disappointed there are probably many more customers who don't need a PC for anything more than small business apps, internet and email.
The Fonze could do this every time he combed his hair.
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Originally, in the mid 70s, yes, but like all formats around at the time (such as the Philips VCR format), they soon found ways to get a decent number of hours out of a tape. Once past the three hour mark it was probably not such an issue since that was enough for most films. Stacking lots of 30min TV shows on one tape and then trying to find them after was a hassle so I remember we eventually just had lots of tapes and tended to use them on a one tape, one programme basis.
How about instead of discouraging enterprises from creating or editing articles about themselves, provide a space where they can, that is clearly labeled as advertising space.
Let them create their own articles with editing restricted to the enterprise and trusted editors who can help them make it believable (i.e. point out and correct silly amounts of bias etc.).
They get to write their own article in an encyclopedic fashion, it shows up quite high on Google, Wikipedia gets paid.
A psuedo-encyclopedia advert may be an interesting concept.
Has this already been done somewhere? I'm sure I read something like this before on Slashdot though it could be deja-vu
You can usually buy jigs from distributers such as Farnell or Digikey etc to expand these devices to something more manageble. When designing MP3 players, the developers are faced with exactly the same problem trying to build a prototype around these chips.
Personally, I find the pin adapters too expensive so I splay out the pins (since the chip is available as a SM pinned version) odd numbers one way, even numbers the other, then solder very fine wires to each pin and tack it down to copper-clad board with square pads cut out with a Stanley knife.
Yes. I guess all Microsoft are doing is playing the game like everyone else there. Believe me, I am no fan of Microsoft and I don't their OS at home or even at work.
On the other hand, how does any organisation deal with a Wikipedia article that is POV, factually incorrect and biased against them? It's catch 22,
Org : Yo Wikipedia dudes!
Wiki : Yo!
Org : This here website of yours is doing us in. We are losing customers/members/reputation because your stinking, biased, factually incorrect article is hurting us.
Wiki : Well, you can fix it yourself if you like. We only take libel seriously if it applies to biographies about living people.
Org : Not happy. It's a waste of our time and resources but OK, we'll cop it. We'll start contributing to the article.
Wiki : Oh, and by the way, you are "strongly discouraged" from editing the article because you have a conflict of interest and are "single-purpose" editors.
Org : Thanks a bundle! But if we don't sort it out who else will?
I was surprised that artificial ball lightning is considered so elusive. I thought it could be done in a
Microwaveoven. I'm sure I can remember some more serious experiments being reported on Slashdot too. Maybe someone can find them.
OK. Plan a webcast for 10000 viewers with whole-world coverage with a two-week deadline. Scan the internet and see what options Straming Solution Providers offer you;-)
I recently had to organise a live webcast for a large (thousands) audience. What I found was that just about every company I approached pushed me into using WMV due to the following reasons,
1) Also encoding for Real Player means extra encoding fees,
2) Although Flash claims to support live streaming, the license fees for it's servers to make a viable live streaming infrastructure are completely ridiculous so it is only good for progressive download.
3) No one offered any other format,
4) One of the largest networks in the world, Akamai, only has a small number of Real Server licenses left and they are dwindling due to lack of demand,
5) Live streaming from a whole network is a different ballgame to streaming from one server. Only Real and WMS can handle it properly. I know Icecast probably/could/ but no one was offering any format it supports.
From my own experience in smaller scale streaming I have not had much success using a Theroa/Icecast solution because there is no basic application just to grab V4L and convert it to a stream (I even tried coding one myself before running out of time and getting stumped since I lack the skills), though you can use ffmpeg2theroa to grab from a DV CAM. I tried Flumotion but it only seems to work with the latest and greatest version of Fedora at any given time. It's also way to complicated. Exactly what is all this "planet", "atmosphere", "streams" stuff about? I got nowhere fast trying to install it on CentOS4 which is what the enocding box runs (and I am not in a position to suddenly change OS since it does lots of other functions).
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Bah that's nothin'. Back in my day, we knew that it was only rock and roll. And we liked it!
"I'd love to see original scientific research...."
Have you tried Wikipedia? I promise you won't be disappointed!
Quite right. A lot of things are supposed to "kill music" but cassette tapes didn't do it and nor will anything else.
The only thing I can imagine would do it is some pandemic virus that makes everyone tone deaf. And even then, many tone deaf people still appreciate music.
Does anyone really expect us to buy into the idea that music only exists due to the existence of the record and entertainment industry?
Speaking of which another song springs to mind,
"Got along without you
before I met you.
Gonna get along without you now!"
Music existed before, during and after any industry.
"Do they give the Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" - Yes. I believe Albert Hoffman may have received such a prize.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, .... Developer.... Where's everyone gone????
Errm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be tantamount to collaborating with the enemy?
OK guys. Mod me flaimbait! Let's get it over with...
HD-DVD? Is this really what they will be buying a PC for?
Even if some gamers will be disappointed there are probably many more customers who don't need a PC for anything more than small business apps, internet and email.
Darn. I just bought a Q35 laptop and now I read this!
(It works quite well with Linux too).
If I knew they were subscribing to this protection racket it may have influenced my decision.
"...better get a soundcard that supports the different sample rates of your choice natively."
Very important point. Many soundcards sample rate convert everything to one common sampling rate, say 48KHz, and do it really badly.
And by "badly" I don't mean some subtle nuance that only someone with golden ears and a $50k system can hear I mean gross distortion.
Try looping the output back into the line input and firing some test tones through it and seeing what kind of FFT you get back.
Hey!
The Fonze could do this every time he combed his hair.
Originally, in the mid 70s, yes, but like all formats around at the time (such as the Philips VCR format), they soon found ways to get a decent number of hours out of a tape. Once past the three hour mark it was probably not such an issue since that was enough for most films. Stacking lots of 30min TV shows on one tape and then trying to find them after was a hassle so I remember we eventually just had lots of tapes and tended to use them on a one tape, one programme basis.
Why spend money on something to do that?
/tmp directory under a cryptic name. Just renamed it to .flv and it plays on VLC no problem.
I found the FLV file in my
Good point.
Are we comparing AMD 2 cores with Intel 4 cores here?
If so then I humbly suggest that the test might just be a tad skewed.
How about instead of discouraging enterprises from creating or editing articles about themselves, provide a space where they can, that is clearly labeled as advertising space.
Let them create their own articles with editing restricted to the enterprise and trusted editors who can help them make it believable (i.e. point out and correct silly amounts of bias etc.).
They get to write their own article in an encyclopedic fashion, it shows up quite high on Google, Wikipedia gets paid.
A psuedo-encyclopedia advert may be an interesting concept.
Has this already been done somewhere? I'm sure I read something like this before on Slashdot though it could be deja-vu
You can usually buy jigs from distributers such as Farnell or Digikey etc to expand these devices to something more manageble. When designing MP3 players, the developers are faced with exactly the same problem trying to build a prototype around these chips.
Personally, I find the pin adapters too expensive so I splay out the pins (since the chip is available as a SM pinned version) odd numbers one way, even numbers the other, then solder very fine wires to each pin and tack it down to copper-clad board with square pads cut out with a Stanley knife.
Yes I agree. The colour scheme does look a bit dull. Maybe they should try something more like this.
Yes. I guess all Microsoft are doing is playing the game like everyone else there. Believe me, I am no fan of Microsoft and I don't their OS at home or even at work.
On the other hand, how does any organisation deal with a Wikipedia article that is POV, factually incorrect and biased against them? It's catch 22,
Org : Yo Wikipedia dudes!
Wiki : Yo!
Org : This here website of yours is doing us in. We are losing customers/members/reputation because your stinking, biased, factually incorrect article is hurting us.
Wiki : Well, you can fix it yourself if you like. We only take libel seriously if it applies to biographies about living people.
Org : Not happy. It's a waste of our time and resources but OK, we'll cop it. We'll start contributing to the article.
Wiki : Oh, and by the way, you are "strongly discouraged" from editing the article because you have a conflict of interest and are "single-purpose" editors.
Org : Thanks a bundle! But if we don't sort it out who else will?
I was surprised that artificial ball lightning is considered so elusive. I thought it could be done in a Microwave oven. I'm sure I can remember some more serious experiments being reported on Slashdot too. Maybe someone can find them.
And what is used as the streaming server? VLC streams just about anything already, except it doesn't connect to, say, Icecast.
OK. Plan a webcast for 10000 viewers with whole-world coverage with a two-week deadline. Scan the internet and see what options Straming Solution Providers offer you ;-)
I recently had to organise a live webcast for a large (thousands) audience. What I found was that just about every company I approached pushed me into using WMV due to the following reasons,
/could/ but no one was offering any format it supports.
1) Also encoding for Real Player means extra encoding fees,
2) Although Flash claims to support live streaming, the license fees for it's servers to make a viable live streaming infrastructure are completely ridiculous so it is only good for progressive download.
3) No one offered any other format,
4) One of the largest networks in the world, Akamai, only has a small number of Real Server licenses left and they are dwindling due to lack of demand,
5) Live streaming from a whole network is a different ballgame to streaming from one server. Only Real and WMS can handle it properly. I know Icecast probably
From my own experience in smaller scale streaming I have not had much success using a Theroa/Icecast solution because there is no basic application just to grab V4L and convert it to a stream (I even tried coding one myself before running out of time and getting stumped since I lack the skills), though you can use ffmpeg2theroa to grab from a DV CAM. I tried Flumotion but it only seems to work with the latest and greatest version of Fedora at any given time. It's also way to complicated. Exactly what is all this "planet", "atmosphere", "streams" stuff about? I got nowhere fast trying to install it on CentOS4 which is what the enocding box runs (and I am not in a position to suddenly change OS since it does lots of other functions).
Is there some kind of randsom involved?
If the source code exists, which it must if the code exists, then why sit on it?
It just gives someone the chance to bury it before it sees the light of day.
Yes, although slow and cumbersome, some tubes are quite powerful.
Great. A CD player that's so properly engineered and high resolution that I can't hear it!
I would prefer a CD player that I can hear.
Sorry. Couldn't resist it.
No. That's why I stamp on them.
I just bought a really cheap £10 camera at Tesco because it was really, small, dinky & neat and also because it could be used as a webcam.
Plugged it in. Doesn't show up as anything. Oh well. I know someone who still uses Windows I can donate it to.