By the way, the CD I linked to is $28 because it happens to be an import. Everything from Bad Religion to Britney Spears is less than $15. How local stores can continue to charge $20+ plus sales tax is a mystery to me.
All that means is that I have to download the album if I want to play it on my computer.
No it doesn't. Copy protection is almost trivial to get around. Doing an analog rip is the easiest method.
It begs the question 'Why buy it in the first place?'
1. No, it raises the question.
2. Because buying the CD gets you much better quality, the freedom to choose which format you want to encode to, gapless playback, the artwork, an actual portable object, etc. for a few bucks more (don't buy at your local chain store; Amazon has most CDs for $11-15).
- Alice buys MP3s from concert. - She burns them to a CD for Bob. - Bob enjoys it, so he rips them himself (why bother going to the trouble of contacting Alice for the original MP3s that she might not have anymore?) to listen to on his computer. - Bob sends the MP3s to his friend Chris. - Chris burns the MP3s to CD to listen to in his car. - And so on.
This is why every serious bootleg trader shuns MP3s and demands FLACs/SHNs with MD5 digests.
In double-bind studies, self-proclaimed "audiophiles" were unable to tell the differece between a 256kbps MP3 (CBR, encoded with FLAC) and the uncompressed CD.
Now, of course, you don't want to transcode from one lossy format to another (or to another bitrate, for that matter). That's the true advantage of FLAC.
That's exactly the point. Live recordings are very likely to be traded (ie, burned to CD then ripped again). Do this more than once and your audio will soon sound like shit.
$20 for a 128MB USB keychain drive seems a rather good deal, seeing as they usually go for about $30. I'm not too interested in buying ~160kbps MP3s though, even for $10 per concert.
I wouldn't go quite that far. I make sure never to buy anything for which I can remember an annoying commercial. I wouldn't refuse to buy from, say, IBM just because they advertise on TV.
Perhaps this is true at some schools, but I personally don't know of any. I went to a rather well-funded public high school in the US, and the closest we got to watching TV was seeing some taped History Channel or PBS shows.
I'm as excited about the new syntactic sugar in 1.5 as the next guy, but it *is* still in beta, and therefore not quite part of the "official" language. I for one can't and won't use the new features until there's a stable 1.5 JDK.
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By the way, the CD I linked to is $28 because it happens to be an import. Everything from Bad Religion to Britney Spears is less than $15. How local stores can continue to charge $20+ plus sales tax is a mystery to me.
Some of them, sadly yes.
All that means is that I have to download the album if I want to play it on my computer.
No it doesn't. Copy protection is almost trivial to get around. Doing an analog rip is the easiest method.
It begs the question 'Why buy it in the first place?'
1. No, it raises the question.
2. Because buying the CD gets you much better quality, the freedom to choose which format you want to encode to, gapless playback, the artwork, an actual portable object, etc. for a few bucks more (don't buy at your local chain store; Amazon has most CDs for $11-15).
*sigh*
Don't be a moron.
To quote Greg Graffin: "If you really love music you should try get the best copy you can get, and today that's still on a CD."
*sigh*
- Alice buys MP3s from concert.
- She burns them to a CD for Bob.
- Bob enjoys it, so he rips them himself (why bother going to the trouble of contacting Alice for the original MP3s that she might not have anymore?) to listen to on his computer.
- Bob sends the MP3s to his friend Chris.
- Chris burns the MP3s to CD to listen to in his car.
- And so on.
This is why every serious bootleg trader shuns MP3s and demands FLACs/SHNs with MD5 digests.
Of course, no sane person would buy an unedited recording of orchestral music.
That's exactly the point. Live recordings are very likely to be traded (ie, burned to CD then ripped again). Do this more than once and your audio will soon sound like shit.
$20 for a 128MB USB keychain drive seems a rather good deal, seeing as they usually go for about $30. I'm not too interested in buying ~160kbps MP3s though, even for $10 per concert.
Yes, but an unedited soundboard feed is still vastly better than an audience recording.
I wouldn't go quite that far. I make sure never to buy anything for which I can remember an annoying commercial. I wouldn't refuse to buy from, say, IBM just because they advertise on TV.
is sufficient. If you really want to, you can call the garbage collector manually:
How exactly is this a troll? Maroons. Theoretically, it should compile as long as you have libpcap and Ethereal installed.
And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Perhaps this is true at some schools, but I personally don't know of any. I went to a rather well-funded public high school in the US, and the closest we got to watching TV was seeing some taped History Channel or PBS shows.
Apparently, he thinks asynchronous sockets are so neat, he calls them "NanoProbe".
Um. And you're discounting Iraqi civilian casualties because...? You mean "600 Americans dead...along with untold thousands of civilians".
No, then they're a better business, not a better restaurant.
Huh. XWA runs just fine for me under Windows XP with a low-end GeForce FX.
Um...it's really shocking how many people on /. have never heard about PGP.
Hm, probably safer than keeping a bag of rocks handy, which was my idea.
It wouldn't be too difficult to write a proxy or a Thunderbird plugin that simulates IMAP for the mail client, while talking to GMail in HTTP.
Um, marketing of what, exactly?
I'm as excited about the new syntactic sugar in 1.5 as the next guy, but it *is* still in beta, and therefore not quite part of the "official" language. I for one can't and won't use the new features until there's a stable 1.5 JDK.
And they're not search engines. They're just meta-search engines that compile the results of Google, Yahoo, etc.
Fuck POP3, I want IMAP. Seeing as Google is offering 1GB of space on their servers, IMAP would be much more appropriate and so very useful.
Found this on Google. It looks good, I think.
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