Are you reading the right Slashdot story? What you said is completely redundant (and karma whoring, since it has garnered an easy +5 insightful in every RIAA story so far) and does not pertain to this article at all. A company is selling music legally online, providing a new way for the recording industry to make money -- i.e., a new business model. Your comment would only be relevant if this story was about the RIAA suing or using strong-arm tactics. Even if you don't RTFA, read the Slashdot blurb at least.
I figure if it's important enough for me to know, it'll show up as a News Flash on Fark.com. Otherwise, it's just the same old crap (Bush promises this, Man kills 40 people for that, Economy down because of this, Iraqi war doing bad because of that, etc etc). Since CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews/Reuters report ALL the news, I need a filter to just show me the really important things.
Don't you get bikes cutting between lanes of traffic in gridlock in the USA?
Hardly anyone rides bikes for transportation, and motorcycles ride in the lane just like cars (they don't weave between other cars). I don't live in a city so I can't speak much for worktime rush hour traffic there, but during my many visits to New York City and Boston the traffic jams were cars-only, the same out here in the suburbs and small cities.
Because of the increase in congestion in and around Paris, there are more and more people that use motorbikes/scooters. The result is... a large increase in fatal accidents.
I'm not surprised. When I visited a couple years ago the motorcycles seemed to be completely unrestricted, weaving in and around cars, butting to the front of the line at traffic lights, and completely disregarding lane lines and general traffic ettiquette.
10. Can you flash my BIOS?
9. 010100001000101011100
8. Would you like to see the special functions on my calculator?
7. I can integrate in my sleep. No, really.
6. Anywhere else, you're a 3. Here, you're an 8.
5. How are your transistors doing?
4. Do you play Counter-Strike?
3. Um... er... uh... that is... nevermind!
2. Hey baby, let's make some flux.
1. Can I take your second derivative so I can see your curvature?
"The computer you want to buy will always cost $5000"
Now you could get 10 PC's for that.
I don't want a $500 computer. I wish I could buy a dual-2GHz G5 with an Apple Cinema monitor, which brings you right around $5000. Looks like he was right.
Another one: The things you want to download always require leaving your computer downloading overnight. In 1995 I had to leave my 14.4kbps modem running overnight to get MP3s, and now DVD-R images take about the same amount of time.
What about local advertising and things that aren't brand names? Local car dealerships, concert events, political campaigning, preview of next week's TV episode, etc.
You probably wont see that as a common feature for quite some time. It *may* eventually happen once CRTs start using DVI.
I doubt that will drive it. LCDs are becoming more and more common while CRTs are becoming more and more scarce. Most LCDs can handle 3D games quite nicely, despite what the zealots still clutching their 800-lb behemoth might tell you. Also, every Joe Nongamer is buying an LCD with their new computer these days, so I doubt much new innovation will be made on CRTs since that is not where the market is heading.
It seems like I learned a long time ago that if you ZIP/RAR/etc a WAV or AIFF, you get a file not much bigger than the associated MP3.
Nope. I believe ZIP and RAR just look at the series of 1s and 0s, whereas music compression codecs look at the actual waves representing the music and find similarities, so they're a little more advanced and specialized. If what you said was true, MP3 would never have been developed to begin with. Typically, lossless codecs get the file down to around 50-60% of the size, depending on the complexity of the music and what the codec was specialized for.
As an example of what I stated before, LivePhish.com sells both MP3 and FLAC copies of the concerts they offer. The FLAC files cost a little more due to their size and subsequent bandwidth costs.
CDs aren't $18.99 at the big retailers anymore. Best Buy, Circuit City, and others have many $9.99 and $10.99 CDs. Whether it's one song or 20 that I'm buying, I won't pay for watered down, compressed crap like 128kbps MP3s. So yes, I'd rather buy the whole disc and get the filler (in this case I'd buy it used).
I know, but since they don't make analog records anymore, I'm stuck with 16-bit 44.1kHz audio. If they sold 24/96 audio then sure, I'd buy that for a reasonable price. Right now a CD is the best I can buy, so I want that or an exact copy of it.
The first company to sell decent music using a lossless codec will get my money. Until then, I can't justify spending $10+ for an album of crappy MP3s when I can buy the CD used for less (or even sometimes new for a dollar or two more).
Are you saying that Americans start a war over downloading movies?:)
Anyway, what he said was, that people got tired of the US government monitoring them all the time, passing more and more unjust laws favoring corporate America, and curbing basic freedoms of the people.
Wouldn't this result in a coup or revolution rather than a civil war?
I am a big fan of CGI movies and I thought the first Shrek was awful. The animation was simply wretched. The backgrounds never moved, the characters' textures were very plain, the voices never matched quite right to their lips, and they had very awkward movement. It wasn't even comparably to the first Toy Story, which came out 6 years before.
So why did people eat this up? Was I the only one who noticed the giant step backwards in animation?
Web-based e-mail is so prevalent these days that having a Hotmail account for travel makes little sense. Even the cheapest web hosting companies offer it, and if you're traveling for business, you'd probably want to be using your company address (and I'm sure most companies have webmail as well).
To the original poster, Hotmail is useful for giving out to places that are likely to give you spam -- entering contests, buying online, posting to usenet, etc. Keeps your real (personal/business) e-mail pretty much spam free.
just go to Blockbuster with your own 4.2 gig thumb drives, plug into the USB 3 (this is the future ya know) port, download right there. Movie somehow self destructs and no need to return it.
In other words, a more expensive version of Circuit City's Divx, which failed miserably. Fantastic idea.
They banned Furby's because of the recording chip.
Why don't they ban cell phones alltogether? You could easily call up a voice mail box, drop the cell phone in your pocket, and record a couple minutes of audio that way.
Just drove to Salem, MA for the weekend, relying on Mapquest's maps and directions.
Big mistake.
No, not a mistake using Mapquest, but a mistake going without a GPS. None of the streets were labeled so we never knew where the hell we were. Turns out the maps and directions were perfect, but that didn't help if we didn't know where we were. So I vote for Mapquest plus a GPS receiver.
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All Pixar movies (or almost all of them) have bloopers at the end.
Are you reading the right Slashdot story? What you said is completely redundant (and karma whoring, since it has garnered an easy +5 insightful in every RIAA story so far) and does not pertain to this article at all. A company is selling music legally online, providing a new way for the recording industry to make money -- i.e., a new business model. Your comment would only be relevant if this story was about the RIAA suing or using strong-arm tactics. Even if you don't RTFA, read the Slashdot blurb at least.
I figure if it's important enough for me to know, it'll show up as a News Flash on Fark.com. Otherwise, it's just the same old crap (Bush promises this, Man kills 40 people for that, Economy down because of this, Iraqi war doing bad because of that, etc etc). Since CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews/Reuters report ALL the news, I need a filter to just show me the really important things.
Message: I use a scientific ant name on mine.
Sig: Ant/AntDude from The Ant Farm.
Creepy, dude... You're like Willard for tiny little insects.
Top Ten RPI Pickup Lines
10. Can you flash my BIOS?
9. 010100001000101011100
8. Would you like to see the special functions on my calculator?
7. I can integrate in my sleep. No, really.
6. Anywhere else, you're a 3. Here, you're an 8.
5. How are your transistors doing?
4. Do you play Counter-Strike?
3. Um... er... uh... that is... nevermind!
2. Hey baby, let's make some flux.
1. Can I take your second derivative so I can see your curvature?
Another one: The things you want to download always require leaving your computer downloading overnight. In 1995 I had to leave my 14.4kbps modem running overnight to get MP3s, and now DVD-R images take about the same amount of time.
What about local advertising and things that aren't brand names? Local car dealerships, concert events, political campaigning, preview of next week's TV episode, etc.
48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity
(a mirror, since theonion.com didn't archive it)
As an example of what I stated before, LivePhish.com sells both MP3 and FLAC copies of the concerts they offer. The FLAC files cost a little more due to their size and subsequent bandwidth costs.
CDs aren't $18.99 at the big retailers anymore. Best Buy, Circuit City, and others have many $9.99 and $10.99 CDs. Whether it's one song or 20 that I'm buying, I won't pay for watered down, compressed crap like 128kbps MP3s. So yes, I'd rather buy the whole disc and get the filler (in this case I'd buy it used).
I know, but since they don't make analog records anymore, I'm stuck with 16-bit 44.1kHz audio. If they sold 24/96 audio then sure, I'd buy that for a reasonable price. Right now a CD is the best I can buy, so I want that or an exact copy of it.
The first company to sell decent music using a lossless codec will get my money. Until then, I can't justify spending $10+ for an album of crappy MP3s when I can buy the CD used for less (or even sometimes new for a dollar or two more).
So why did people eat this up? Was I the only one who noticed the giant step backwards in animation?
To the original poster, Hotmail is useful for giving out to places that are likely to give you spam -- entering contests, buying online, posting to usenet, etc. Keeps your real (personal/business) e-mail pretty much spam free.
Big mistake.
No, not a mistake using Mapquest, but a mistake going without a GPS. None of the streets were labeled so we never knew where the hell we were. Turns out the maps and directions were perfect, but that didn't help if we didn't know where we were. So I vote for Mapquest plus a GPS receiver.
So you were that guy who (almost) bought tickets for that movie!
VLC is great on any platform.