You won't like this answer but if I were you, I'd calculate my income versus the time it would take me to learn and do the design on my own and then hire someone for this budget. You can find great talent on http://www.elance.com/ and elsewhere.
If you insist on rolling your own, I'd start with this book: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321534042
Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary.
Here is the deal: These days, very rarely is a cd recorded completely in the analog domain. Classical music and jazz come to mind but most pop and rock music is recorded on a digital device already in the studio -- mostly on hard-discs. So anyone who claims "this is sounds so much better" or "mp3 compression at 256 kbps is unacceptable" should see how the sound gets mangled in the studio.
Now, music can still sound better on vinyl or whatnot but this is purely subjective and has more to do with your equipment and your speakers.
"...It should not take Apple's iTunes team more than 2-3 days to implement a solution for not wrapping content with FairPlay when the content owner does not mandate DRM. This could be done in a completely transparent way and would not be confusing to the users."
I think it would be confusing and that's why Apple never went for the different-rights-for-different-songs route as some of the others. They want all or nothing so that the customers know exactly what they get.
Plus I think it would weaken their stand against the major labels. First they will have to get them to open up their catalog drm-free and then the smaller labels will follow.
It's not about the state owned stations being high quality and the private ones being substandard. It's about the state owned being independent from commercial interests. Businesses can't influence what these stations broadcast with their advertising money. Thus these stations can broadcast stuff that only interests a small audience, like theater productions or jazz concerts. No private station would do that.
That is also why the fee is not collected as a tax but via an independent organization. The government should not have any influence on these stations to prevent censorship.
In case you are wondering: Yes, the models are skinny, but not that skinny. The video was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio but encoded in 4:3. Everything looks squashed.
Did I miss anything? Or was this basically a non-interview? Every answer was little more than "It's all roses over here!" or "We're doing a heck of a job!".
There was one question where I was really interested in his opinion and he only said "I don't know".
Here is the deal: Art is different from software. Art comes (in most cases) from an individual who has a very strong vision of how he sees his work. Very few artists are comfortably with the idea that anyone can take their works and do with it whatever he or she wants.
The CC licenses let the artists chose how they want to release it. Most are fine with "Take it, pass it along but don't make money from it" and some even allow you to change it. But some want to keep their creation it its integrity so that you can experience it the way the artist envisioned it.
One could argue that even open source software can benefit from this view. Firefox started as a very closed project with a few people who controlled everything and thus it came out as a very strong product. On the closed source side of the fence, just look at Microsoft with Bill Gates vs. Apple with Steve Jobs. Yes, Steve Jobs can be a pain to work with because he wants total control over every aspect of the product down to the packaging, but only because he has this strong vision of how one should experience an Apple product.
I like the way Bitstream released the Vera font family. It is open source but once you change anything you have to release it under a different name so that wherever you use or see "Vera" you get what Bitstream created.
P.S.: I know my/. karma is very bad but maybe a mod could pick this post up? Just this time and then I'll continue posting lousy jokes.
"In the seven-day stretch between Christmas and the new year, millions of consumers armed with new MP3 players (primarily iPods) and stacks of gift cards gobbled up almost 20 million tracks from iTunes."
Asperger's syndrome (AS), is a pervasive developmental disorder commonly referred to as a form of "high-functioning" autism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger's
I'd download IE just to see that. But it'd better be sharks with friggin' laser beams! And Bill Gates has to drown by the unnecessary slow dipping mechanism.
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You won't like this answer but if I were you, I'd calculate my income versus the time it would take me to learn and do the design on my own and then hire someone for this budget. You can find great talent on http://www.elance.com/ and elsewhere.
If you insist on rolling your own, I'd start with this book: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321534042
Now, music can still sound better on vinyl or whatnot but this is purely subjective and has more to do with your equipment and your speakers.
I think it would be confusing and that's why Apple never went for the different-rights-for-different-songs route as some of the others. They want all or nothing so that the customers know exactly what they get.
Plus I think it would weaken their stand against the major labels. First they will have to get them to open up their catalog drm-free and then the smaller labels will follow.
In tubes?? Get those friggin robots outa my internets!
"I-- you better make good graphics!"
"I come to work and I have to look at this mess!"
That is also why the fee is not collected as a tax but via an independent organization. The government should not have any influence on these stations to prevent censorship.
In case you are wondering: Yes, the models are skinny, but not that skinny. The video was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio but encoded in 4:3. Everything looks squashed.
Am I the only one who thinks he is joking? I mean, for all that is wrong with Dvorak, at least he has a sense of humor.
Where is my irony meter when I need it...
Did I miss anything? Or was this basically a non-interview? Every answer was little more than "It's all roses over here!" or "We're doing a heck of a job!". There was one question where I was really interested in his opinion and he only said "I don't know".
The CC licenses let the artists chose how they want to release it. Most are fine with "Take it, pass it along but don't make money from it" and some even allow you to change it. But some want to keep their creation it its integrity so that you can experience it the way the artist envisioned it.
One could argue that even open source software can benefit from this view. Firefox started as a very closed project with a few people who controlled everything and thus it came out as a very strong product. On the closed source side of the fence, just look at Microsoft with Bill Gates vs. Apple with Steve Jobs. Yes, Steve Jobs can be a pain to work with because he wants total control over every aspect of the product down to the packaging, but only because he has this strong vision of how one should experience an Apple product.
I like the way Bitstream released the Vera font family. It is open source but once you change anything you have to release it under a different name so that wherever you use or see "Vera" you get what Bitstream created.
P.S.: I know my /. karma is very bad but maybe a mod could pick this post up? Just this time and then I'll continue posting lousy jokes.
Martin Fink tells it like it is!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Dollar_Laptop _project
"In the seven-day stretch between Christmas and the new year, millions of consumers armed with new MP3 players (primarily iPods) and stacks of gift cards gobbled up almost 20 million tracks from iTunes."
Somehow they forgot the period here.
but it sure refuses to die on Slashdot.
You have obviously no experience with Apple. Just ain't gonna happen.
(I know it's a shame.)
I guess they just wanted to prepare everyone for the Mac release of Duke Nukem Forever!
Now that he announced it... he can be sure Steve Jobs is so pissed that it won't be in the iPod. Ever.
Asperger's syndrome (AS), is a pervasive developmental disorder commonly referred to as a form of "high-functioning" autism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger's
*drumroll*
ONE BILLION FLAWS!!
Muahahahaha!
I'd download IE just to see that. But it'd better be sharks with friggin' laser beams! And Bill Gates has to drown by the unnecessary slow dipping mechanism.
This is good. Actually, I will see this as my new definition of sarcasm. To read about this on Slashdot of all places... :-)
Why didn't they just stick to the reruns? I know it works for Slashdot...
- A set of Debian CDs: 5,-
- "Making her new Mac look like her old PC": Priceless!