Sony/Legacy has started reissuing hybrid CD/SACDs for some classic stuff from the 60s/70s. They went back to the original masters and did a better job. When the first generation CDs were made, the engineers were pretty draconian about removing hiss, and removed a lot of the sound dynamics.
A work of art with DRM by definition is not intended to ever make it into the public domain, and thus the copyright holders are stealing copyright from us the public.
The music file with DRM is justa copy of the work of art. Harlequin romance novels printed on cheap-ass paper won't last long enough to make it into PD status. Who knows if your CD collection will be playable in 70 years. Or the music on 8-track tapes, or cassette tapes. Most of my parents records are scratched. Are the copyright holders trying to steal from the public domain by using those mediums as well?
Convenience is still putting value on your time.
Itf it takes me 6 hours to save $15, either I enjoy it, I don't have $15, or I don't have anything else to do. Personally, I'd pay the $15 and use my free time to do seomthing more enjoyable.
Back in the 1980s, IBM considered the PC to be a fad. So when they introduced one, they used cheap off-the-shelf parts (intel 8086, etc) and had MS provide the OS. When it proved to NOT be a passing fad, IBM regretted it.
The original X-Box was a reworked PC. Maybe they want a closed system for their next box so Linux won't run on it.
Don't quote me, but I think iTunes has 400,000 songs available, and napster has around 500,000. As i understand it, some of the napster songs are only available for "rent" (once you stop paying monthly subscription fees, you can't listen"), but some are available for regular purchasing.
iTunes has a handful of "exclusive" songs which aren't available in store. I don't know if they're exclusive to iTunes.
allofmp3.com does look interesting, but the music doesn't seem to be licensed (like napster and itunes). The RIAA did file lawsuits against 9 year-old girls that thought they could download all the music they wanted because they paid for kazaa pro.
With allofmp3, you're paying for access to their library and bandwidth, not the legal rights to the music. If the RIAA gets ahold of their access logs (unlikely), you might see a lawsuit.
Anyhow, has anyone tried to use it? giving a credit card number to a foreign country seems dodgy, especially if what they're offering is of questionable legality.
You canadians should stop being such short sighted. Did you realize that prior to the 1960s, Canada as nicknamed "Switzerland of the Americas" for their small gov't and high standard of living?
When a linux/open source tool doesn't exist, the zealots usually claim it isn't needed, up until someone finally gets fucked over by the shortcoming, and writes a tool. Then the zealots claim the open source/linux version is superior.
lather, rinse, wash, repeat.
VMS (and Windows NT I think) allows you to specify an expected file length when creating a file. The posix creat call is far simpler.
Fragmentation *is* a problem under all linux fs. It's not as much of an issue as would be with a desktop OS since there may be a few thousand open files being read/written at any given time for a web server, mail server, etc. The anticipatory io scheduler sorts them out so it makes no difference in the end.
Macs have different default gamma settings than does Windows, so the same picture under Windows appears darker than under MacOS. So the Windows GIU team might have done less work than you think:)
Considering all the MS fanbois that wanted to rip apple/iTunes a new one for not using the standard MS look and feel (as if any music player did), it would certainly be poetic justice if they were legitimate.
Considering that longhorn won't be out until 2005^h6^h7, this sounds like a last-ditch attempt to stem the tide of small enterprise businesses which are rapidly switching to linux. Unless MS can show off some new functionality that can help the bottom line, their days are numbered.
You've hit the nail on the head. A year or 2 ago, I was investigating how to have a windows control that opened a web page. A lot of the example code was hard-wired to open it with IE, and all of them would use IE as a last resort if the preferred web browser couldn't be found (and none of the various examples could agree on how to do that).
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you can also hear snippets of songs at iTunes, napster 2.0, amazon.com, bn.com etc.
I think I've only seen one SACD-only CD.
The music file with DRM is justa copy of the work of art. Harlequin romance novels printed on cheap-ass paper won't last long enough to make it into PD status. Who knows if your CD collection will be playable in 70 years. Or the music on 8-track tapes, or cassette tapes. Most of my parents records are scratched. Are the copyright holders trying to steal from the public domain by using those mediums as well?
Convenience is still putting value on your time. Itf it takes me 6 hours to save $15, either I enjoy it, I don't have $15, or I don't have anything else to do. Personally, I'd pay the $15 and use my free time to do seomthing more enjoyable.
"almost" probably means that your 1984-era CD player that can't handle multi-session discs won't work.
scales that go up to 1,000 pounds? Maybe now Cowboy Kneel will learn how fat he really is!
The original X-Box was a reworked PC. Maybe they want a closed system for their next box so Linux won't run on it.
iTunes has a handful of "exclusive" songs which aren't available in store. I don't know if they're exclusive to iTunes.
Anyhow, look at the slashdot book reviews sometime.
I think what you meant to say is, "Mac users get confused by 2 mouse buttons".
Rather than telling you why you're wrong, I'll encourage you to prove it works. Jackass.
Where can I find a FREE implementation of an AAC decoder? AFAICT, the only software player is QuickTime.
With allofmp3, you're paying for access to their library and bandwidth, not the legal rights to the music. If the RIAA gets ahold of their access logs (unlikely), you might see a lawsuit.
Anyhow, has anyone tried to use it? giving a credit card number to a foreign country seems dodgy, especially if what they're offering is of questionable legality.
You canadians should stop being such short sighted. Did you realize that prior to the 1960s, Canada as nicknamed "Switzerland of the Americas" for their small gov't and high standard of living?
lather, rinse, wash, repeat.
VMS (and Windows NT I think) allows you to specify an expected file length when creating a file. The posix creat call is far simpler.
Fragmentation *is* a problem under all linux fs. It's not as much of an issue as would be with a desktop OS since there may be a few thousand open files being read/written at any given time for a web server, mail server, etc. The anticipatory io scheduler sorts them out so it makes no difference in the end.
How big is it? Almost as big as Kathleen Fent-Malda's herpes flare ups.
Methinks the word "Data" may be used more loosely than Kathleen Fent-Malda's pussy.
Macs have different default gamma settings than does Windows, so the same picture under Windows appears darker than under MacOS. So the Windows GIU team might have done less work than you think :)
Considering all the MS fanbois that wanted to rip apple/iTunes a new one for not using the standard MS look and feel (as if any music player did), it would certainly be poetic justice if they were legitimate.
They still make plenty of money from the copy of windows xp sold with every new computer.
Considering that longhorn won't be out until 2005^h6^h7, this sounds like a last-ditch attempt to stem the tide of small enterprise businesses which are rapidly switching to linux. Unless MS can show off some new functionality that can help the bottom line, their days are numbered.
slashdot story on the topic.
You like little boys?
thanks. we all wanted to hear that.