I think my cheap computer speakers are part of the problem though.
You hit it there. Most people don't care anyway, but on even a mid-range sound system there are differences between OGG and mp3, especially at lower bitrates. Here's something you might try: whatever your musical tastes, try finding a rock band you can listen to. Compress a song or two to 96 or 128 kbps mp3s and oggs. It's usually easier to compare with headphones, but listen to the cymbal work in particular. OGG is much nicer to the high frequencies than mp3. It's generally higher quality anyway, but high-pitched sounds are usually most noticable.
I highly agree on the second point. Downloading albums is a pain, and even then you don't know if the information is accurate or if it was encoded correctly. Kazaa and other p2p apps are really nice for previewing things tho. I know the drummer for a pretty popular local band. I went home and managed to find a couple of their songs and liked them. I've bought their CD and I've been to most of their gigs since.
I suppose the question I asked was a little too broad. Ignore that whole thing, the law is reasonably close to being in line with the right thing.
However, I do 'do' music. To musicians, it's not a job. It's usually treated like the art form that it is. We love to play our music, to let other people hear it. We don't usually mind playing for free, but if money comes in, so much the easier to continue, eh? A recording contract changes things a bit, since that usually introduces more beauracracy. Once that gets to be too much for the artist, the music turns into a commodity, just like the cars being churned out on the assembly lines. The line between production and expression becomes blurred, and you end up with people like Metallica. They probably focus more on the production and sales then they do the expression.
Of course, this whole thing doesn't account for greed, but hey, that's the communist way!;)
I actually think they are right to do what they do now.
Are the right as in just, or right as in lawful? There is a difference. This is an extreme example, but what if the law said everyone must kill their firstborn child? Doing so would be right according to the law, but it is far from the right thing to do.
...that is bad, whatever way you look at it.
Really? Not the way I see it. My ripped music gets lonely on such a big hard drive, and it would be a *good* thing to give it some companions from the internet, bring in some fresh blood as it were. Of course, that allows for riff-raff and shenanigans, but that's not too hard for a good firewall and virus scanner to handle. Maybe I see it as a Robin Hood sort of thing. Steal from the rich and give to the poor and all that...only problem is the rich still have a copy. Then again, because there are more copies, they all are devalued and the whole thing becomes a moot point. The rich can still make new things and the peasants still have no control. One last pointless comparison. What if the music was secretly encoded instructions to build a replicator (ala Star Trek)? You can't be on Slashdot and say that sort of information needs to be hidden...well, you could... Still, that would help bring about a future where this sort of crap is irrelevant, and blocking its free distribution would be a severe blow to that sort of (r)evolution. Do you want that? Do you *enjoy* the petty concerns of greed?
What I'm trying to say is "WAKE UP." The law isn't the only thing that matters.
Immoral, eh? I swear, greed is like an all-purpose blinder. Some people just can't see that other people think differently about possessions and money.
I think everyone involved is being stupid about it. The recording companies are desperately clinging onto their old business model of "suck the customers dry, leave nothing for the artists", the people grabbing music in symbolic attempts to 'kill off' the recording companies, and the artists for still signing with big record companies after all this shit.
You assume greed is a basic part of human nature, or if it isn't, that everyone is greedy anyway. Sorry buddy. Some of us have heard of this crazy thing called the Open Source movement...people are, get this, giving their work away! As in *no* money involved! Woah... Now sure, there are people who care about nothing but money, but at least half of us here are a bit more intellegent than that.
Hey, that's cool. Didn't know that. Is any of this stuff publicly accessable? I'd love to know a bit more about the driving conditions before I go out and about.
There's something similar going on in and around Denver. As this gargantuan construction project lumbers on, they've been installing cameras and other monitoring gadgets throughout the area. As of right now, not much is completed, but what is done can be seen and monitored from www.trexproject.com.
Exactly. It'd be like a general-purpose slashdot poll. Everyone can vote on five or six choices per topic (only one or two of which are relevant), then when their votes goes through, they can post innane comments at random.
Woah there buddy... I agree, desktop linux use is pretty easy. Unfortunately, it's still a little touchy. If you're not careful, you can get stuck with nothing but a CLI, and most users would have to go hide in a corner for a while. Of course, logging in non-root helps out, as almost all of *us* know.
However, normal users (especially former Windows power users) will think that they want that 'full control all the time' thing like you could safely do with Windows.
While huge training estimates are fun, normal users should only need a small amount of help, probably no more so than they would with Windows. IT people should already have some *nix knowledge, so training there should be minimal too. It's definitely above zero, but *far* below what most FUD-ites are quoting. I do agree about the CS students tho. Windows is such a tiny and blackboxed portion of the industry that CS students are really hosed if that's all they know.
I apologize, I am ignoring Windows sysadmins there...whatever. Nevermind, I don't apologize. Whatever your specialty, you should at least know the basics of other things in your field. There's too much *nix infrastructure to be an admin and still clueless.
Sorry, is it just me, or did I read that as "object breaker"?
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Nice ideas. The only problem is X. From what I've seen, they're more worried about stability and backwards compatibility than new features. That's why I'm looking forward to xouvert. People can stick with standard XF86 for older systems, servers and terminal clients, while desktop users can have their eye candy. Compatability might eventually become an issue, but hey, it's open source. Somebody will find a way to fix it.
What would be the best is if you had a daemon running on your computer that counterattacked each computer attempting to infect you and installed a patch and closed the hole directly on the attacking machine only.
I think that's one of the best ideas I've heard so far. It's probably just as useful as the anti-worm, without the annoying (and/or costly) side effects.
I don't know, but recieving the signals isn't the problem, they're being pulled out of the FM spectrum. 20 radio stations. You're probably onto something with the CPU usage tho. Interesting...
Not just guitars, but basses and anything else Ernie Ball makes products for. I've got a few accessories from them, and they all preform exactly the way I need them to.
If our government wasn't run by corporate intrests, we wouldn't need DRM. It's not quite on topic, but why was the BSA allowed to raid and fine Ernie Ball without direct government intervention? If they had the feds come in and do it for them, I wouldn't be quite as concerned, but when a coporate agency can enforce the law, there is a problem.
I remember being about 500 miles from the nearest population center on a cloudless, moonless night. Stargazing is an entirely different experience without light pollution.
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You hit it there. Most people don't care anyway, but on even a mid-range sound system there are differences between OGG and mp3, especially at lower bitrates. Here's something you might try: whatever your musical tastes, try finding a rock band you can listen to. Compress a song or two to 96 or 128 kbps mp3s and oggs. It's usually easier to compare with headphones, but listen to the cymbal work in particular. OGG is much nicer to the high frequencies than mp3. It's generally higher quality anyway, but high-pitched sounds are usually most noticable.
I highly agree on the second point. Downloading albums is a pain, and even then you don't know if the information is accurate or if it was encoded correctly. Kazaa and other p2p apps are really nice for previewing things tho. I know the drummer for a pretty popular local band. I went home and managed to find a couple of their songs and liked them. I've bought their CD and I've been to most of their gigs since.
However, I do 'do' music. To musicians, it's not a job. It's usually treated like the art form that it is. We love to play our music, to let other people hear it. We don't usually mind playing for free, but if money comes in, so much the easier to continue, eh? A recording contract changes things a bit, since that usually introduces more beauracracy. Once that gets to be too much for the artist, the music turns into a commodity, just like the cars being churned out on the assembly lines. The line between production and expression becomes blurred, and you end up with people like Metallica. They probably focus more on the production and sales then they do the expression.
Of course, this whole thing doesn't account for greed, but hey, that's the communist way! ;)
Are the right as in just, or right as in lawful? There is a difference. This is an extreme example, but what if the law said everyone must kill their firstborn child? Doing so would be right according to the law, but it is far from the right thing to do.
Really? Not the way I see it. My ripped music gets lonely on such a big hard drive, and it would be a *good* thing to give it some companions from the internet, bring in some fresh blood as it were. Of course, that allows for riff-raff and shenanigans, but that's not too hard for a good firewall and virus scanner to handle.
Maybe I see it as a Robin Hood sort of thing. Steal from the rich and give to the poor and all that...only problem is the rich still have a copy. Then again, because there are more copies, they all are devalued and the whole thing becomes a moot point. The rich can still make new things and the peasants still have no control.
One last pointless comparison. What if the music was secretly encoded instructions to build a replicator (ala Star Trek)? You can't be on Slashdot and say that sort of information needs to be hidden...well, you could... Still, that would help bring about a future where this sort of crap is irrelevant, and blocking its free distribution would be a severe blow to that sort of (r)evolution. Do you want that? Do you *enjoy* the petty concerns of greed?
What I'm trying to say is "WAKE UP." The law isn't the only thing that matters.
I think everyone involved is being stupid about it. The recording companies are desperately clinging onto their old business model of "suck the customers dry, leave nothing for the artists", the people grabbing music in symbolic attempts to 'kill off' the recording companies, and the artists for still signing with big record companies after all this shit.
You assume greed is a basic part of human nature, or if it isn't, that everyone is greedy anyway. Sorry buddy. Some of us have heard of this crazy thing called the Open Source movement...people are, get this, giving their work away! As in *no* money involved! Woah... Now sure, there are people who care about nothing but money, but at least half of us here are a bit more intellegent than that.
Hey, that's cool. Didn't know that. Is any of this stuff publicly accessable? I'd love to know a bit more about the driving conditions before I go out and about.
There's something similar going on in and around Denver. As this gargantuan construction project lumbers on, they've been installing cameras and other monitoring gadgets throughout the area. As of right now, not much is completed, but what is done can be seen and monitored from www.trexproject.com.
Exactly. It'd be like a general-purpose slashdot poll. Everyone can vote on five or six choices per topic (only one or two of which are relevant), then when their votes goes through, they can post innane comments at random.
However, normal users (especially former Windows power users) will think that they want that 'full control all the time' thing like you could safely do with Windows.
While huge training estimates are fun, normal users should only need a small amount of help, probably no more so than they would with Windows. IT people should already have some *nix knowledge, so training there should be minimal too. It's definitely above zero, but *far* below what most FUD-ites are quoting. I do agree about the CS students tho. Windows is such a tiny and blackboxed portion of the industry that CS students are really hosed if that's all they know.
I apologize, I am ignoring Windows sysadmins there...whatever. Nevermind, I don't apologize. Whatever your specialty, you should at least know the basics of other things in your field. There's too much *nix infrastructure to be an admin and still clueless.
CRFH is one of the oldest webcomics still updating...last I checked anyway... Give it a shot!
I read that as "redhatted stepchild." It certainly would have been funnier that way.
Replace 'is' with 'looks'. Everyone will be happier.
Sorry, is it just me, or did I read that as "object breaker"?
Nice ideas. The only problem is X. From what I've seen, they're more worried about stability and backwards compatibility than new features. That's why I'm looking forward to xouvert. People can stick with standard XF86 for older systems, servers and terminal clients, while desktop users can have their eye candy. Compatability might eventually become an issue, but hey, it's open source. Somebody will find a way to fix it.
I think that's one of the best ideas I've heard so far. It's probably just as useful as the anti-worm, without the annoying (and/or costly) side effects.
I don't know, but recieving the signals isn't the problem, they're being pulled out of the FM spectrum. 20 radio stations. You're probably onto something with the CPU usage tho. Interesting...
Hell. You're right, missed that one. I'll be more careful next time.
Not just guitars, but basses and anything else Ernie Ball makes products for. I've got a few accessories from them, and they all preform exactly the way I need them to.
If our government wasn't run by corporate intrests, we wouldn't need DRM. It's not quite on topic, but why was the BSA allowed to raid and fine Ernie Ball without direct government intervention? If they had the feds come in and do it for them, I wouldn't be quite as concerned, but when a coporate agency can enforce the law, there is a problem.
Is it just me? I read that as meaning "OpenBSD has opinions." I'm not saying that's bad or anything, but HAL was not a fun computer.
I don't either, but it might Affect end users. In any case, you could always make a (rather weak) political statement by using Firebird.
Dang, if only I had mod points. Your 'S.A.D.' comment was great. More irony than a laundromat!
I remember being about 500 miles from the nearest population center on a cloudless, moonless night. Stargazing is an entirely different experience without light pollution.
Hah! XP upgrading me? It'll probably just strap a refridgerator to my back and hand me a set of knee/wrist/elbow guards MADE OUT OF GLASS.