"I get sick of all the scratches on my giant collection."
I don't use original CDs. When I get a new CD for my collection (200+), I first immediately copy it onto a CD-R. This goes into a CD wallet. Then I rip the CD to a high bitrate MP3 (192 or 256). When I get enough MP3s in a genre I burn them to yet another CD for use in my RioVolt. The original CD and case go on a rack in my room at my parents' house (I'm in college now).
There are many alternatives to CDs already. May I direct your attention to: MP3 players (iPod, Zen, memory based ones), MD players, DVD-Audio, and SACD. The two former solve the size problem, the two latter solve the vinyl-sounds-better problem.
>>If the internet can kill the RIAA, it can kill such a monopoly before it even gets started
*Really* poor analogy. Most things that are patented are material objects. How would the internet distribute, say, those 3D printers? Maybe if you had a 3D printer...
Sure, you could distribute plans for the 3D printer, but people still need to go out and by materials and assemble it. Even if you had a 3D printer and were talking about other objects, they are only useful for making a relatively small range of objects.
Suppose I panent a (musical) keyboard. You could print the keys and maybe even the frame, but you'd need another machine to print the circuit board, another to print the switches, etc. Then you need to put all these parts (many of which are very small) together so it'll work.
This sure compares to "this song looks good, I'll try it" followed by a double click and 5 minutes of waiting.
On who's word? If three kids are picking on one kid, and that one kid goes to the principal or the police, it is the word of one versus the word of three.
And this is different in the adult world, how? Do we stop prosecuting adults in similar situations?
What the heck are you babbling about? I have personally used PowerDVD, MSI DVD, WinDVD, and one other (I forget what) on Windows. I have never used WMP to play a DVD. Where did you get the idea that you couldn't?
The parent hit the nail on the head. Computers require a different strategy than human players. For instance, there was one particular move in this game that illustrates this, 18. Rb2, that is a loss of tempo against a human opponent. However, against Fritz it was a very smart move. The computer should have moved the piece on f6 then pushed its f pawn to f5 then f4, attacking Kasparov's f pawn. Moving Rb2 however had the effect of making black work a little harder to attack, apparently pushing the number of moves it needed to consider to find the advantage beyond where it was searching. Against a human player it would have had little or no effect (all the commentators were saying how Fritz was ignoring the opportunity with the f pawn), but against Fritz it made Kasparov's game much much easier.
Most Christians I've seen are still against sex ed programs that teach contraceptives and whatnot. Why? Most Christians I've seen (read: most who go to Church regularly, read the Bible, etc., not people who happen to call themselves Christian) *are* against premarital sex, and they see teaching about contraceptives and proper condom use as encouraging teen sex.
Probably the same way that parents would react to PE teachers who gave the students rock wall climbing homework, or fencing homework, or archery homework, all of which are subjects I had in PE. Which is why I never had PE homework...
If it tore, that's about the only time at which I would feel completely sympathetic. If they didn't use one, I blame a combination of their judgement and possibly their church if that's what caused them to not wear one. If it wasn't used right, I blame a combination of possible inexperience and mainly the Christian Church, which has pushed relentlessly to keep information about contraceptive use out of school sex ed programs.
I think the solution when I was in high school was ideal. We had the family machine (Athlon 500) downstairs with the internet connection. In my room I had a 486. Sure, it didn't play even moderately advanced games, but I was able to use it to type papers, write programs (my first fractal program was written on it in QBASIC--it took 10 minutes to generate a 320x240 picture; the C program I wrote the next day did the same thing but at 800x600 in 10 seconds on a P120), and do many other things.
"I managed to look at as much porn as I wanted when I was a teenager, and our computer was in the living room"
I'm sure if I had wanted to I could have as well. Like used the computer in the afternoons before my parents got home. Clearing the history. And Recent Documents. And with a Netscape profile made specifically for it. Stored on a PGP disk volume encrypted with a 1024-bit RSA key. With a 16 character password. Randomly generated. Not to admit to anything of course.
And my guess is that you'll find a similar proportion of non- honors students, musicians, purple heart winners, nobel prize laureates, yadda yadda yadda who behave similarly. I would agree with your parent that being one of the above has only small bearing on such behaviors. I'm not knocking either way; I'm not entirely one one side or the other, it depends on the issue.
I am an honors student at Penn State, and I know plenty of people in the honors program who go out every weekend and get themselves wasted. I also know plenty of non-honors people who don't drink at all.
My RioVolt player doesn't do OGG. I don't use variable bitrate because I've found that it's not as predictable. I can encode at 192 and be pretty much assured at its quality, but with VBR I've had some issues where parts dropped in sound quality even at higher settings, so I'd have to essentially listen to everything to make sure the encoding went okay. I like to jump around in my collection, so this is not a nice option.
Um, check to make sure the iPod is of the right type before doing anything to it? If they don't work on PCs, that's one thing. But that's not the problem; the problem is that iTunes is corrupting something.
"Does anyone remember buying pre-formatted 3.5" floppy disks? They would say "for Mac" or "for Windows" on the box, right? Again, poor driver support, right?"
Yes, I remember those disks. I also remember using said disks in Macs without a problem for at least a few years. I also "remember" CD-Rs. And remember no problems with getting the opposing system to read them. I also "remember" flash drives. And remember... well, you get the idea.
Why couldn't Apple use a filesystem that both machines know?
"A chepo 64MB Compact Flash card will play more than an hour of music. A 1 or 2 gig card will carry more than half of your music collection, in all free formats as easy to move as coppying files."
My music collection is 12 gigs. And that's just what I have ripped legally off CDs I have. Most is at 192 kbps. And yes, I can tell the difference between that and even 160.
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It doesn't matter if you don't modify the kernel; if you distribute it, you must provide source.
"I get sick of all the scratches on my giant collection."
I don't use original CDs. When I get a new CD for my collection (200+), I first immediately copy it onto a CD-R. This goes into a CD wallet. Then I rip the CD to a high bitrate MP3 (192 or 256). When I get enough MP3s in a genre I burn them to yet another CD for use in my RioVolt. The original CD and case go on a rack in my room at my parents' house (I'm in college now).
"...with as much fidelity as humans can percieve."
Except it's not. Ever hear a DVD-Audio or SACD disc? Or for that matter a new (or otherwise unscratched and clean) vinyl record on a good player?
There are many alternatives to CDs already. May I direct your attention to: MP3 players (iPod, Zen, memory based ones), MD players, DVD-Audio, and SACD. The two former solve the size problem, the two latter solve the vinyl-sounds-better problem.
>>If the internet can kill the RIAA, it can kill such a monopoly before it even gets started
*Really* poor analogy. Most things that are patented are material objects. How would the internet distribute, say, those 3D printers? Maybe if you had a 3D printer...
Sure, you could distribute plans for the 3D printer, but people still need to go out and by materials and assemble it. Even if you had a 3D printer and were talking about other objects, they are only useful for making a relatively small range of objects.
Suppose I panent a (musical) keyboard. You could print the keys and maybe even the frame, but you'd need another machine to print the circuit board, another to print the switches, etc. Then you need to put all these parts (many of which are very small) together so it'll work.
This sure compares to "this song looks good, I'll try it" followed by a double click and 5 minutes of waiting.
Can there be a moderation category for comments like this that deserve like a +7 Hilarious?
Read again at the thread:
On who's word? If three kids are picking on one kid, and that one kid goes to the principal or the police, it is the word of one versus the word of three.
And this is different in the adult world, how? Do we stop prosecuting adults in similar situations?
"And this is different in the adult world, how? Do we stop prosecuting adults in similar situations?"
Any judge who would allow this to go to trial with he-said she-said testamony the only evidence isn't doing his or her job.
I still have no clue how the extensions aren't ex post facto laws. Okay, that's not true. I do, I just think they are really bad arguments.
What the heck are you babbling about? I have personally used PowerDVD, MSI DVD, WinDVD, and one other (I forget what) on Windows. I have never used WMP to play a DVD. Where did you get the idea that you couldn't?
By that logic, the thing that plays the DVD isn't a codec at all because it doesn't encode, only decodes.
The parent hit the nail on the head. Computers require a different strategy than human players. For instance, there was one particular move in this game that illustrates this, 18. Rb2, that is a loss of tempo against a human opponent. However, against Fritz it was a very smart move. The computer should have moved the piece on f6 then pushed its f pawn to f5 then f4, attacking Kasparov's f pawn. Moving Rb2 however had the effect of making black work a little harder to attack, apparently pushing the number of moves it needed to consider to find the advantage beyond where it was searching. Against a human player it would have had little or no effect (all the commentators were saying how Fritz was ignoring the opportunity with the f pawn), but against Fritz it made Kasparov's game much much easier.
I think it is, at least if the person it is addressed to is of the age of majority anyway.
Though seriously, who would call up the cops and be like "my parents opened my letter"...
Most Christians I've seen are still against sex ed programs that teach contraceptives and whatnot. Why? Most Christians I've seen (read: most who go to Church regularly, read the Bible, etc., not people who happen to call themselves Christian) *are* against premarital sex, and they see teaching about contraceptives and proper condom use as encouraging teen sex.
Probably the same way that parents would react to PE teachers who gave the students rock wall climbing homework, or fencing homework, or archery homework, all of which are subjects I had in PE. Which is why I never had PE homework...
If it tore, that's about the only time at which I would feel completely sympathetic. If they didn't use one, I blame a combination of their judgement and possibly their church if that's what caused them to not wear one. If it wasn't used right, I blame a combination of possible inexperience and mainly the Christian Church, which has pushed relentlessly to keep information about contraceptive use out of school sex ed programs.
I think the solution when I was in high school was ideal. We had the family machine (Athlon 500) downstairs with the internet connection. In my room I had a 486. Sure, it didn't play even moderately advanced games, but I was able to use it to type papers, write programs (my first fractal program was written on it in QBASIC--it took 10 minutes to generate a 320x240 picture; the C program I wrote the next day did the same thing but at 800x600 in 10 seconds on a P120), and do many other things.
n-1 video games (where n is the total number of video games) discourage healthy activity. ;-) You're picking almost the one exception to the rule.
That said, I love DDR. I fully agree with the one school that made it an option for phys ed class.
"I managed to look at as much porn as I wanted when I was a teenager, and our computer was in the living room"
I'm sure if I had wanted to I could have as well. Like used the computer in the afternoons before my parents got home. Clearing the history. And Recent Documents. And with a Netscape profile made specifically for it. Stored on a PGP disk volume encrypted with a 1024-bit RSA key. With a 16 character password. Randomly generated. Not to admit to anything of course.
And my guess is that you'll find a similar proportion of non- honors students, musicians, purple heart winners, nobel prize laureates, yadda yadda yadda who behave similarly. I would agree with your parent that being one of the above has only small bearing on such behaviors. I'm not knocking either way; I'm not entirely one one side or the other, it depends on the issue.
I am an honors student at Penn State, and I know plenty of people in the honors program who go out every weekend and get themselves wasted. I also know plenty of non-honors people who don't drink at all.
Why didn't your fifteen year old pregnant friend (or more precisely her partner) use a condom?
My RioVolt player doesn't do OGG. I don't use variable bitrate because I've found that it's not as predictable. I can encode at 192 and be pretty much assured at its quality, but with VBR I've had some issues where parts dropped in sound quality even at higher settings, so I'd have to essentially listen to everything to make sure the encoding went okay. I like to jump around in my collection, so this is not a nice option.
Um, check to make sure the iPod is of the right type before doing anything to it? If they don't work on PCs, that's one thing. But that's not the problem; the problem is that iTunes is corrupting something.
"Does anyone remember buying pre-formatted 3.5" floppy disks? They would say "for Mac" or "for Windows" on the box, right? Again, poor driver support, right?"
Yes, I remember those disks. I also remember using said disks in Macs without a problem for at least a few years. I also "remember" CD-Rs. And remember no problems with getting the opposing system to read them. I also "remember" flash drives. And remember... well, you get the idea.
Why couldn't Apple use a filesystem that both machines know?
"A chepo 64MB Compact Flash card will play more than an hour of music. A 1 or 2 gig card will carry more than half of your music collection, in all free formats as easy to move as coppying files."
My music collection is 12 gigs. And that's just what I have ripped legally off CDs I have. Most is at 192 kbps. And yes, I can tell the difference between that and even 160.