The leap forward in 'quality' is only in 'quality of reproduction.' For people who view music as a 'utility' item that's fine.
For people who treat music as an aesthetic experience, there's still a LOT of value in older format materials. I bought a box of about sixty 78 RPM disks at an estate auction yesterday. I haven't listened to any of it yet, but there's some good stuff in that pile. I saw a few Al Jolson titles, and some other eclectic stuff that's going to be fun. I paid $2 for the box. Most of it is at least 70 years old, and I know I'll like some of it.
Some of the finest classical recordings I have in my collection are on monophonic albums from the 50's or the early 1960's. Great performances that will probably never happen again.
Listen to the music, don't fret about the quality of the medium.
I check CDs out of the library and burn CDR copies of the ones I like. I have little or no interest in compressing audio. I dabbled with it using the MPEG consortium's MP2 reference source code back in 1994 and got bored with it. I spent a lot of money on a new sound system a few years ago, replacing my Harmon-Kardon Award 300 Tube amp and hella-good thrift store speakers. I take good sound seriously, and tinny PC speakers and sound cards don't cut it.
As far as CD sales are concerned, the CDR drive is what has corrupted CD sales for me, that and I no longer have a day job for income.
My experience has been that the music I have come to like the most is music that challanged me the first few times I listened to it. I haven't bought an album in years now, but back when I did, I often didn't like it at ALL the first time I listened, but came to appreciate it with repeated listens.
That all changes in a world where people don't commit to a purchase of the album.
And there are albums that just aren't individual songs, and that shouldn't be. To go waaaay back, for an example, the Beatles' White Album is a complete work. I have it on vinyl and I haven't been able to listen to it for years, because 'Martha My Dear' (first track on side three) has a skip in it. Everybody knows that you have to listen to the White Album straight through without pause, and when I'd gotten through all of sides one and two and hit 'Martha My Dear' and it skipped at an important passage, I just couldn't listen to any of those songs anymore.
***umm, anyhow....***
My point is: it seems lame and limiting to buy individual songs. Artists create big bodys of work, and often the 'catchy' tune on an album isn't even the best one that has the message. It's a deterioration of the art form for people to just buy bits and pieces.
And I know: lots of crap music out there, lots of it doesn't hold together as an 'album.' But some does, and always has. Hope it can in the future...
It will be someone other than Microsoft. And it'll be more like Kernel 1.2.13 which if I remember was a fine piece of code, useful for very many things.
The point is, the GPL gets defanged eventually just like all other copyright-based things.
You're right. Apple did such a good job of suing to run anybody who competed in their market out of business in the 80's that they don't have to any longer.
Your assertion is sort of like claiming 'the streets were safer in Pol Pot's Cambodia.'
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As a result, of course, there isn't a ton of fresh news here,
yes. This was an excellent opportunity, and the guy took good advantage of it. He can put together his puff piece, get it published, get it linked to at Slashdot, and 'I couldn't really divulge details' is his response to anybody who challanges it as a weak puff piece of journalism.
Certain grades of jouralist eat that kind of stuff up.
You'd just have to reverse engineer the wiring out of an existing PS2 keyboard. Pull out the (section of?) the PS2 keyboard that has the microcontroller (is it an 8041 in an AT, it's an 8048 in an XT) and graft it on the keyswitches on the Atari's keyboard.
PS2 keyboard schematics do exist, i.e. in the techref manual of an IBM brand machine you could find the schematics. Then it's just a matter of translating switch contacts to switch contacts with a lot of #30 wire wrap and fitting it all in the old case (the logic board from the old keyboard, some of which are fairly small).
Who cares what the tat looks like a few days out of the studio, under the proper lighting?
There are 30-60 year old people everywhere with fading ugly blotches on the skin that they thought were great when they got them.
A tattoo just screams insecurity. "I've gotta do something permanent to my skin, to show that I'm really serious about 'whatever' culture that I'm involved with right now."
The device I have wanted is the wind-up 'walkman' cassette player. I've heard rumors of it but never seen it available. It just has a lot of appeal to never have to put batteries into it or charge it up.
'Fair use' means you aren't breaking the law if you make personal use copies.
It doesn't mean the publisher is mandated to make it easy for you to make said copies. Your ghetto blaster has a built in microphone. Put it near the speaker of your CD player if you want to make a 'fair use' copy. Or do more technical things to get a higher quality copy if you wish. Your 'fair use' rights are not being obliterated if you don't own the equipment to make a copy of the quality you wish you could.
I doubt if the RIAA and MPAA label all of their members' output as 'Art'. Most of it's just plain entertainment. People go out to listen to music and dance, etc. with the music as the background. People go to movies because they're fun.
I'm not trying to place 'art' on a pedestal, some of the greatest art is very close to it's audience. But 90% of everything is low quality dreck.
Office 2000 is fast enough to still be usable on my 486DX-100 laptop. The 'slower every year' meme is often exaggerated. Granted, if that laptop were my only machine I wouldn't be very happy running Office on it. And it's installed without all the croft they dump in.
All a content vendor has to do is stay enough 'ahead of the curve' to get attract enough customers to get by. Even if 20% of the customer base is circumventing the Copy Protection (and missing out on the plusses, i.e. printed manual, etc.)
Except you don't get to have any more. Cuz' they're gonna copy protect it.
Granted, the analog hole will always exist, and if you're going to degrade the content with compression anyway, what's wrong with running it through an analog cable partway through the process?
The Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall (1938) is a must-have concert album.
The whole concert was recorded from one microphone in the auditorium ceiling. So make sure you have your 5.1 wizzywhoo speaker system properly placed. heh.
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The leap forward in 'quality' is only in 'quality of reproduction.' For people who view music as a 'utility' item that's fine.
For people who treat music as an aesthetic experience, there's still a LOT of value in older format materials. I bought a box of about sixty 78 RPM disks at an estate auction yesterday. I haven't listened to any of it yet, but there's some good stuff in that pile. I saw a few Al Jolson titles, and some other eclectic stuff that's going to be fun. I paid $2 for the box. Most of it is at least 70 years old, and I know I'll like some of it.
Some of the finest classical recordings I have in my collection are on monophonic albums from the 50's or the early 1960's. Great performances that will probably never happen again.
Listen to the music, don't fret about the quality of the medium.
I take choice three. I go to the library and check out music CDs. It's not like the old days when they only had LP albums scratched all to hell.
Then I burn CDR copies of the ones that I want to keep.
I check CDs out of the library and burn CDR copies of the ones I like. I have little or no interest in compressing audio. I dabbled with it using the MPEG consortium's MP2 reference source code back in 1994 and got bored with it. I spent a lot of money on a new sound system a few years ago, replacing my Harmon-Kardon Award 300 Tube amp and hella-good thrift store speakers. I take good sound seriously, and tinny PC speakers and sound cards don't cut it.
As far as CD sales are concerned, the CDR drive is what has corrupted CD sales for me, that and I no longer have a day job for income.
My experience has been that the music I have come to like the most is music that challanged me the first few times I listened to it. I haven't bought an album in years now, but back when I did, I often didn't like it at ALL the first time I listened, but came to appreciate it with repeated listens.
That all changes in a world where people don't commit to a purchase of the album.
And there are albums that just aren't individual songs, and that shouldn't be. To go waaaay back, for an example, the Beatles' White Album is a complete work. I have it on vinyl and I haven't been able to listen to it for years, because 'Martha My Dear' (first track on side three) has a skip in it. Everybody knows that you have to listen to the White Album straight through without pause, and when I'd gotten through all of sides one and two and hit 'Martha My Dear' and it skipped at an important passage, I just couldn't listen to any of those songs anymore.
***umm, anyhow....***
My point is: it seems lame and limiting to buy individual songs. Artists create big bodys of work, and often the 'catchy' tune on an album isn't even the best one that has the message. It's a deterioration of the art form for people to just buy bits and pieces.
And I know: lots of crap music out there, lots of it doesn't hold together as an 'album.' But some does, and always has. Hope it can in the future...
It will be someone other than Microsoft. And it'll be more like Kernel 1.2.13 which if I remember was a fine piece of code, useful for very many things.
The point is, the GPL gets defanged eventually just like all other copyright-based things.
You're right. Apple did such a good job of suing to run anybody who competed in their market out of business in the 80's that they don't have to any longer.
Your assertion is sort of like claiming 'the streets were safer in Pol Pot's Cambodia.'
As a result, of course, there isn't a ton of fresh news here,
yes. This was an excellent opportunity, and the guy took good advantage of it. He can put together his puff piece, get it published, get it linked to at Slashdot, and 'I couldn't really divulge details' is his response to anybody who challanges it as a weak puff piece of journalism.
Certain grades of jouralist eat that kind of stuff up.
You'd just have to reverse engineer the wiring out of an existing PS2 keyboard. Pull out the (section of?) the PS2 keyboard that has the microcontroller (is it an 8041 in an AT, it's an 8048 in an XT) and graft it on the keyswitches on the Atari's keyboard.
PS2 keyboard schematics do exist, i.e. in the techref manual of an IBM brand machine you could find the schematics. Then it's just a matter of translating switch contacts to switch contacts with a lot of #30 wire wrap and fitting it all in the old case (the logic board from the old keyboard, some of which are fairly small).
Who cares what the tat looks like a few days out of the studio, under the proper lighting?
There are 30-60 year old people everywhere with fading ugly blotches on the skin that they thought were great when they got them.
A tattoo just screams insecurity. "I've gotta do something permanent to my skin, to show that I'm really serious about 'whatever' culture that I'm involved with right now."
In other words, the only revenue stream is buggy, hard to administer software.
Why do you presume to say it has to be possible? And can't you put your ghetto blaster near your speakers, as I said earlier?
The device I have wanted is the wind-up 'walkman' cassette player. I've heard rumors of it but never seen it available. It just has a lot of appeal to never have to put batteries into it or charge it up.
Me, I'm just wondering how they pulled off three kids in 16 months. There have to be twins or triples involved somehow.
'Fair use' means you aren't breaking the law if you make personal use copies.
It doesn't mean the publisher is mandated to make it easy for you to make said copies. Your ghetto blaster has a built in microphone. Put it near the speaker of your CD player if you want to make a 'fair use' copy. Or do more technical things to get a higher quality copy if you wish. Your 'fair use' rights are not being obliterated if you don't own the equipment to make a copy of the quality you wish you could.
I doubt if the RIAA and MPAA label all of their members' output as 'Art'. Most of it's just plain entertainment. People go out to listen to music and dance, etc. with the music as the background. People go to movies because they're fun.
I'm not trying to place 'art' on a pedestal, some of the greatest art is very close to it's audience. But 90% of everything is low quality dreck.
Office 2000 is fast enough to still be usable on my 486DX-100 laptop. The 'slower every year' meme is often exaggerated. Granted, if that laptop were my only machine I wouldn't be very happy running Office on it. And it's installed without all the croft they dump in.
All a content vendor has to do is stay enough 'ahead of the curve' to get attract enough customers to get by. Even if 20% of the customer base is circumventing the Copy Protection (and missing out on the plusses, i.e. printed manual, etc.)
How sad. Fagan and Becker used to be trend-setters with their music; now they're being used to prop up a failing business model.
Music isn't about 'business models'. Perhaps it's you that has changed more than they have.
You must live alone.
Here in our house, we sometimes are watching a DVD movie and (somebody else) is playing the Xbox. Simultaneously! What will they think of next??
"I hereby decree that you are forbidden to ram a ball point pen into your eye."
Except you don't get to have any more. Cuz' they're gonna copy protect it.
Granted, the analog hole will always exist, and if you're going to degrade the content with compression anyway, what's wrong with running it through an analog cable partway through the process?
Whoops. So much for 'release early, release often.'
I guess that does it. No more Open Source projects freely released and enthusiastically and continually updated.
The Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall (1938) is a must-have concert album.
The whole concert was recorded from one microphone in the auditorium ceiling. So make sure you have your 5.1 wizzywhoo speaker system properly placed. heh.
Hell no. There's a great binary newsgroup for (old) jazz. alt.binaries.sounds.78-era has many jazz greats.
King Oliver rules.