I do, as a Canadian. Even with our dollar recovering quickly on the weak American one, it is still bloody prohibitive (what with the shipping and duty as well) to order off most online retailers.
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I didn't know the older edition was bad... I have the newer one though, and I concur - it is pretty good.
Oh, and I guarantee the artifacts from an analog rip are noticable (if slight), while even to a trained ear LAME mp3s with --alt-preset standard are impossible to identify 99% of the time.
I personally took Dexedrine for most of my school career, but now I don't take anything (side effects were too awful).
I have trouble staying focused on repetitive tasks, much like anyone does... Not a huge problem as long as I get moved around lots. I can't imagine going back on pills. In my case though I am just ADD and not terribly severe.
Ah, but that doesn't do a secure rip like EAC does. A burst copy with EAC goes quick too, but no two rips are the same (CRC mismatch). A CRC consistent rip takes over 8 hours.
I would also like to point out that the audio is compressed to high-hell, as is the audio on most modern and "remastered" discs. Puts a real bad taste in my mouth for shelling out $$$.
The non-US version is DRM protected and labeled as such on the back. Your's probably isn't. C1 errors affect everyone, even stand-alone players. Faulty error correction information means that the disc will never be able to recover from scratches. They do this to make CDROMs think it's data not audio. This is easy to circumvent but man did they fuck up the disc.
My new radiohead disc has 1300 intentional C1 errors on it, rendering it extremely prone to scratches and (ironically) making a backup copy pretty much a necessity.
Took over 8 hours to rip using EAC though... owch.
Basically I could have stolen it from Kazaa and saved a lot of trouble, but because I am actually a paying customer I was charged $12, 8 hours of labour and was rewarded with an intentionally damaged CD. What a bunch of fuckers.
As return punishment, I have made the CD available for all my friends to download, and I am encouraging them to use my error-free, DRM-disabled MP3s instead of that horrid disc.
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You could make the kessle (sp?) run in less than 3 parsecs!
Obviously, as a Canadian I would be much more comfortable in America. Ask around SE asia and the middle east though and i'll guarantee most people are proude of their own way of life. Also, by saying Americanization != progress I simply meant that Americanization and progress are not synonymous. By writing it in that terse coder's style I probably (incorrectly) indicated that I thought Americanization and progress were exclusive terms. This was not my intent. Just that some societies will develop differently, and regarding them as "backwards" is ethnocentrism.
Suggesting that another culture is "backwards" or "primitive" implies that one believes their own culture is superiour. I assume said poster was an American, due to statistical probability.
Sorry, that's incorrect. Homo and australopithecine species are known as "Hominids" or family Hominidae. The great apes are all "Hominoids" or superfamily Hominoidia.
The last iceage ended 10,000 years ago. This was accompanied by farming, which led to population concentration, which led to cultural complexity, cities etc.
Stone tools DID evolve quite a bit during the 300,000 - 500,000 years prior. Not much else is preserved of course, but we can assume other advancements took place as well.
Yes, BTW, every morning I wake up and say to myself "so, should I go have sex today, or dig a hole with this rediculously tiny shovel? Shovel it is then!"
I assume you don't even have time to go to a job then, what with all the woman wooing you do.
I don't wan't to sound like I am sure however... this is simply the position I argued in a recent paper. It is much contested within the archaeological community.
Actually, ancestor reverence and worship predates complex organized religion in essentially all societies.
We have evidence that H. neanderthalensis buried their dead ritualistically from a few sites. At one location they found the burial hole contained pollen grains suggesting flowers were laid out under the body. If this was done for the smell, why would they have buried the body in the back of the same cave in which they lived?
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Oh, and to answer your half-question. There were also "archaic Homo sapiens" as a sort of intermediate between what we call anatomically modern Homo sapiens and H. erectus. Not a separate species, because they simply transitioned into us.
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Uhh, Homo erectus was not the first hominid. Not by a long shot. Try Ardipithecus ramadis at 5 to 8 million years ago, or arguably something earlier. A. ramadis is most likely bipedal however, which is typically the criteria for early hominids.
If you were refering to the first in the Homo genus, that would be (in my opinion) Homo habilis or possibly Homo heidelburgensis. These were characterized by the earliest confirmed tool use (Homo habilis means "handy man"). These fellas were around for several hundred thousand years before H. erectus and H. ergaster.
Sorry about the lack of italicised names, I'm lazy.
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I do, as a Canadian. Even with our dollar recovering quickly on the weak American one, it is still bloody prohibitive (what with the shipping and duty as well) to order off most online retailers.
I didn't know the older edition was bad... I have the newer one though, and I concur - it is pretty good.
Oh, and I guarantee the artifacts from an analog rip are noticable (if slight), while even to a trained ear LAME mp3s with --alt-preset standard are impossible to identify 99% of the time.
...but lots of them DO listen to Radiohead and Placebo for instance, two of the most recent DRM disasters I have purchased.
I prefer to make digital copies while they are still possible. Either way, analog or digital, it is a nuisance I actually paid good money for.
I personally took Dexedrine for most of my school career, but now I don't take anything (side effects were too awful).
I have trouble staying focused on repetitive tasks, much like anyone does... Not a huge problem as long as I get moved around lots. I can't imagine going back on pills. In my case though I am just ADD and not terribly severe.
Ah, but that doesn't do a secure rip like EAC does. A burst copy with EAC goes quick too, but no two rips are the same (CRC mismatch). A CRC consistent rip takes over 8 hours.
Is slashcode garbling anyone else's posts lately? I said: "don't buy it!"
Don't blame radiohead - the next time EMI releases a new CD, don'py it!
I would also like to point out that the audio is compressed to high-hell, as is the audio on most modern and "remastered" discs. Puts a real bad taste in my mouth for shelling out $$$.
The non-US version is DRM protected and labeled as such on the back. Your's probably isn't. C1 errors affect everyone, even stand-alone players. Faulty error correction information means that the disc will never be able to recover from scratches. They do this to make CDROMs think it's data not audio. This is easy to circumvent but man did they fuck up the disc.
My new radiohead disc has 1300 intentional C1 errors on it, rendering it extremely prone to scratches and (ironically) making a backup copy pretty much a necessity.
Took over 8 hours to rip using EAC though... owch.
Basically I could have stolen it from Kazaa and saved a lot of trouble, but because I am actually a paying customer I was charged $12, 8 hours of labour and was rewarded with an intentionally damaged CD. What a bunch of fuckers.
As return punishment, I have made the CD available for all my friends to download, and I am encouraging them to use my error-free, DRM-disabled MP3s instead of that horrid disc.
You could make the kessle (sp?) run in less than 3 parsecs!
Obviously, as a Canadian I would be much more comfortable in America. Ask around SE asia and the middle east though and i'll guarantee most people are proude of their own way of life. Also, by saying Americanization != progress I simply meant that Americanization and progress are not synonymous. By writing it in that terse coder's style I probably (incorrectly) indicated that I thought Americanization and progress were exclusive terms. This was not my intent. Just that some societies will develop differently, and regarding them as "backwards" is ethnocentrism.
Suggesting that another culture is "backwards" or "primitive" implies that one believes their own culture is superiour. I assume said poster was an American, due to statistical probability.
Fucking sensitive.
americanization != progress.
Actually, IE5 for Mac is the best version of IE by far. It is the only one that renders CSS properly, for example.
Gee, I just graduated Monday with a degree in Primatology and this is news to me. The wonders of Slashdot!
Sorry, that's incorrect. Homo and australopithecine species are known as "Hominids" or family Hominidae. The great apes are all "Hominoids" or superfamily Hominoidia.
...a twinkie. What else could be preserved that long?
The last iceage ended 10,000 years ago. This was accompanied by farming, which led to population concentration, which led to cultural complexity, cities etc.
Stone tools DID evolve quite a bit during the 300,000 - 500,000 years prior. Not much else is preserved of course, but we can assume other advancements took place as well.
Yes, BTW, every morning I wake up and say to myself "so, should I go have sex today, or dig a hole with this rediculously tiny shovel? Shovel it is then!"
I assume you don't even have time to go to a job then, what with all the woman wooing you do.
I don't wan't to sound like I am sure however... this is simply the position I argued in a recent paper. It is much contested within the archaeological community.
Actually, ancestor reverence and worship predates complex organized religion in essentially all societies.
We have evidence that H. neanderthalensis buried their dead ritualistically from a few sites. At one location they found the burial hole contained pollen grains suggesting flowers were laid out under the body. If this was done for the smell, why would they have buried the body in the back of the same cave in which they lived?
Oh, and to answer your half-question. There were also "archaic Homo sapiens" as a sort of intermediate between what we call anatomically modern Homo sapiens and H. erectus. Not a separate species, because they simply transitioned into us.
Uhh, Homo erectus was not the first hominid. Not by a long shot. Try Ardipithecus ramadis at 5 to 8 million years ago, or arguably something earlier. A. ramadis is most likely bipedal however, which is typically the criteria for early hominids.
If you were refering to the first in the Homo genus, that would be (in my opinion) Homo habilis or possibly Homo heidelburgensis. These were characterized by the earliest confirmed tool use (Homo habilis means "handy man"). These fellas were around for several hundred thousand years before H. erectus and H. ergaster.
Sorry about the lack of italicised names, I'm lazy.