So, there I was, last night. Downloading classical music. Yes, I kid you not, classical music. 2 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerti (Nos. 3 and 4, if you wanted to know). Also, Dies Irae and Lacrimosa from Mozart's requiem, two preludes by Rachmaninoff (G#-m and C#-m), and Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre. all off napster and opennap.
I would say, all in all, that it is possible. As to performers. Until people regularly use ID3, v2 or even v1.1 to its full potential, constantly, you wont know the performer. that's true. determining whether it's, as you put it, "drug-store quality" or "world class" is a simple matter of listening to it. And, if you need a label or tag to tell you which of those categories a performance falls into, I don't think you really care. Finally, if you are a true classical music fanatic, you wouldnt be listening to music in the low-fi mp3 format anyway, would you?
last, an interesting idea. Not mentioning performers is a way of avoiding copyright issues. After all, the performer, and the label recording the performance, has copyright over a certain performance of a classical piece. But, the pieces themselves, the composers of which have mostly been dead for 50+ years, are in public domain. And I can't imagine it's particularly easy to prove, simply through 128Kbps audio, who the performer is, thus avoiding the copyright issue.
or i'm not thinking straight. but unless the black queen takes the white queen instead of the black king taking the white queen, move 5 is not checkmate, since the white king can escape with 6. f2-e2
Perhaps it propogates through the sub-conscious
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A friend recommended it over a year before I read it. I brushed him off with a smile, because I was deeply engrossed in something else. This summer, surfing through amazon, I came across snow crash and ordered it.
Until I finished reading and began spreading the virus, I did not remember that this friend had ever mentioned. Now, I'm more than halfway through his copy of Cryptonomicon.
I can't get enough of Stephenson. I am scared that I'll go into withdrawal in a few months.
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Other Stephenson material in Wired, etc.
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For those who are becoming addicted to Neal Stephenson's writing, like me, there are several lengthy pieces of his in the Wired magazine archives, dating from 1994 and 1996. There are also links to the many pieces that Wired has mentioned him in.
In addition to that, as a number of/. readers may know, In The Beginning There Was the Command Line, an essay of his that had an article on/. a while back, will be published in a book form November 9 according to amazon.
All in all, great review. I was very happy to see someone else associating Neal Stephenson and Neil Gaiman in some way.
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So, there I was, last night. Downloading classical music. Yes, I kid you not, classical music. 2 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerti (Nos. 3 and 4, if you wanted to know). Also, Dies Irae and Lacrimosa from Mozart's requiem, two preludes by Rachmaninoff (G#-m and C#-m), and Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre. all off napster and opennap.
I would say, all in all, that it is possible. As to performers. Until people regularly use ID3, v2 or even v1.1 to its full potential, constantly, you wont know the performer. that's true. determining whether it's, as you put it, "drug-store quality" or "world class" is a simple matter of listening to it. And, if you need a label or tag to tell you which of those categories a performance falls into, I don't think you really care. Finally, if you are a true classical music fanatic, you wouldnt be listening to music in the low-fi mp3 format anyway, would you?
last, an interesting idea. Not mentioning performers is a way of avoiding copyright issues. After all, the performer, and the label recording the performance, has copyright over a certain performance of a classical piece. But, the pieces themselves, the composers of which have mostly been dead for 50+ years, are in public domain. And I can't imagine it's particularly easy to prove, simply through 128Kbps audio, who the performer is, thus avoiding the copyright issue.
perhaps i'm mistaken, but that should read
4. e2-e7 e8-e7
or i'm not thinking straight. but unless the black queen takes the white queen instead of the black king taking the white queen, move 5 is not checkmate, since the white king can escape with
6. f2-e2
otherwise, the solution appears sound.
A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift, 1729. You can read it online at ://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/nonfiction_u/swift j_modest/modest_ch1.html
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A friend recommended it over a year before I read it. I brushed him off with a smile, because I was deeply engrossed in something else. This summer, surfing through amazon, I came across snow crash and ordered it.
Until I finished reading and began spreading the virus, I did not remember that this friend had ever mentioned. Now, I'm more than halfway through his copy of Cryptonomicon.
I can't get enough of Stephenson. I am scared that I'll go into withdrawal in a few months.
-Ari
In addition to that, as a number of /. readers may know, In The Beginning There Was the Command Line, an essay of his that had an article on /. a while back, will be published in a book form November 9 according to amazon.
All in all, great review. I was very happy to see someone else associating Neal Stephenson and Neil Gaiman in some way.
-Ari
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