True, any mp3 is technically inferior to their CD counterpart.
True, decently encoded mp3s are barely distinguishable from their CD counterparts to the vast majority of listeners.
Also true, even poorly encoded mp3s are capable of sounding vastly superior to the collection of cassettes and 4-tracks, which formed previous generations of portable music. Still, the record companies charged more for those formats than vinyl and the music producers didn't complain about their paychecks back then.
The real difference that is affecting the livelihood of music professionals these days has less to do with the quality of the format than the quality of music produced these days. That and the end of the music industry's archaic and monopolistic distribution model.
I was going to respond with a He-Man comment, but I have a nagging fear... either it was one of those "I ate too much pizza night" nightmares or Dolph Lundgren beat me to it...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0093507
Oh god, it's true.
I'm still holding out hope for a live-action feature presentation of Hammy Hampster, complete with Kung Fu guinnea pigs, robot rats, and fast cars and a radio-active hamster with more powers than Q.
Of course, none of that was in the original, but what makes you think Hollywood producers have a clue, care or intention of researching the original before cashing in on the latest fad?
The Beatles' collective solo work proves that they were greater than the sum of their parts.
Plastic Ono Band, All Things Must Pass and Band on the Run are fine examples of each artists capabilities when they still had something to prove.
However, it didn't take long before the novelty of their solo careers waned and they lost their muse. No doubt, they needed a break from each other by 1970 (if not sooner, but it's hard to argue against an album like Abbey Road). They should have met up every 5 years or so for a project - I'm sure they would have appreciated each other's input so much more under less of a grind.
Hire a public servant to read the binary content of the digital archives to cassette tapes. "One, zero, zero, one, one,..., please turn over cassette # 100393836737 and proceed".
Maybe another civilization has a monopoly on the galaxy and is out there killing off every other species that pops it's head out of the hole.
Maybe humanity is one of the few civilizations out there that don't know about the big bad guys that the rest of the universe is hiding from. They're probably laughing at all the noise we're broadcasting into space and counting our days.
A draconian measure, but we need a global population control plan. CO2 emissions is proportional to the global population. Cut the population by half per generation and CO2 emissions will drop accordingly until we reach a carrying capacity equivalent to the planet's ability to balance global warming. It's sustainable until technology finds a way to increase the carrying capacity.
Eating the less deserving was one proposal mentioned, but there are more realistic options. Long term, I'd prefer the option of a limited childbirth policy to a hellish existence accompanied by an increased death rate due to environmental influences (disease, pollution, natural disaster). Long term, this is the inevitable solution mother nature will force on us if we do nothing.
Isn't this the general methodology employed by id Software? I'm sure Carmack and his team spent much time behind the scenes prototyping ideas, but the actual game release was preceeded by a very lengthy test release process to solicit feedback early in the cycle.
50. 'Earth - Final Conflict'
Never saw it. Please, who's the goof in the leopard shirt - is that supposed to by sci-fi? How about Mr. Hollywood, with his MTV futuristic hair hilights. Or Ms. Spandex - how many times that that been overdone to attract the 13yr old pimply fan? Show me tits or get off my tv.
49. 'The Wild Wild West'
Before my time. I assume lots of stupid cold war bullshit (i feel sorry that that generation - more details to follow). That's that Jaws guy from Bond, right - he should have had his own tV show. He probably inspired that dude with the clock in Public Enemy.
48. '3rd Rock From The Sun'
John Lithgow (stupid name) always bugged me. And Jane Curtin is about as funny as Dan Akroyd - and that's coming from a Canuck. That big blonde chick always kinda turned me on - something tells me she's a sexual deviant. I hated the show and only watched it when the big blonde chick was on the screen - guess I was hoping for something kinky to happen.
47. 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'
I fuckin loved this show when I was 9 yrs old. Good thing I grew up. Oh, and fuck Erin Grey - the bad chick was hotter. If I were Buck, I'd sell out Earth to go down on her.
46. 'That Was Then'
Whatever... never heard of it. I was probably too busy watching Automan or something.
45. 'The Greatest American Hero'
I fucking hated this show. The whole premise of the show was that maybe this week he'd find the instructions to his suit so something cool would actually happen. No luck - another hour of him flying into a tree/building/window/car/outhouse. Why was this show an hour long? It felt like a decade.
44. 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'
Superman is a wimp. Now they turn it into a chick-flick. Of course, no lookie at Terri Hatcher's tits. Next...
43. 'Nowhere Man'
Good Beatles song. Why is this on here?
42. 'Science Fiction Theatre'
I spent my Saturday mornings/afternoons watching one of four things - Hanna Barbara Laugh A Lympics, Some local station's (channel 20 in Detroit) Kung Fu Theatre (or whatever it was called), UltraMan, or Creature Feature. This is high-brow television. None of these are on this list, so fuck off with this bullshit Sci-Fi theatre - it had no chance of competing.
41. 'Futurama'
I like it - no idea why I never watch it. I have no idea when it's on, but I only watch Battlestar Galactica torrents or Hockey Night in Canada (once hockey starts up again) these days.
40. 'The Thunderbirds'
Hated it. Pinocchio (how the fuck do you spell that?) in spaceships. No thanks. They look fucking creepy to me. More cold war bullshit, too. I feel sorry for the generation that was raised on howdy doody and this shit. How fucking miserable a childhood could you have? That, and ovaltine. Pretty much explains why these people are so fucked up.
39. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'
I never watched this, probably because I thought the name was so stupid. Any it didn't have bionics, spaceships, light sabers or titties. How can a guy be from Uncle? That's a person, not a place. And you don't have to spell it out to me, I can fucking read, ok?
38. 'Batman'
This isn't "camp". It's gay, ok? Fucking gay-ass tights, some guy named Robbin and a bunch of stupid "utility belt" gadgets don't make up for this garbage of a show. oh, yeah, he's the "dark" superhero. I'm scared.
37. 'Space 1999'
Why don't these spaceships sound as cool as in Star Wars? I can't hear anything? For some reason, I never watched it much - I think all the sideburns and mascara scared me away.
36. 'The Bionic Woman'
I'd watch the bionic hamster (btw, where is Hammy Hamster on this list - I fucking loved that show!), so woman/dog/robot/librarian/rock/toothpick - it doesn't matter, if it's bionic, I watched it.
35. 'Battlestar Galactica' (Original)
not bad - except for that meddling kid and his robot dog. Lorne Green is Canadian - we fucking love him up here because he got to be on tv and little house on the prairie
What about Alf? At least as relevant as 3rd Rock.
I hated both shows, so it makes no difference to me.
I do agree, however, that Battlestar Galactica (new season) contains some of the best writing of any genre on TV.
You need a variable-speed projector to do this properly. 8mm is normally projected at 18fps. You want to be able to adjust it to 20fps to eliminate flicker since the video camera records at 30fps.
Many people prefer the look of film over video, even at 8mm resolution.
8mm is still used professionally today for artistic effect in many movies, music videos and commercials. It may not capture as much detail as even a miniDV format, but it still has that "film" look that many strive for. A well-digitized 8mm would surprise many people and could be mistaken for 16mm or better once you eliminate all the jitter and flicker that is due more to crappy projectors than the film format itself..
This guy both sells the service and the hardware to do it yourself.
The Academy Film Archive even uses his equipment to digital archive their collection.
Does anyone ever stop and think, "gee, where did all the fireflies go?"
or the frogs, chipmunks, birds, salamanders, butterflies,... I could go on.
How many people know what a firefly is these days?
We've decimated our ecology by removing the natural vegetation from our front and back yards in some stupid quest for the perfect lawn: uniform, monoculter, weed and pest free.
Then we wonder where all the wildlife went (we killed their homes and removed their food) or why the summers keep getting hotter every year (we've replaced shading, cooling trees with lawn and concrete, or why the air quality sucks so badly and little Timmy has lung cancer and has to breath from a fucking oxygen tank (we've polluted our lawns with chemicals pushed from an industry that doesn't give a fuck about your kids - only your money).
These genetic monstrosities (if they were ever to become even remotely possible) do nothing to restore the ecosystem that we and our animals friends rely on to survive.
Get educated about the environment and the small part you can do to restore the remaining fragments. Even your little patch of lawn can make a difference. wild ones green landscaping plant conservation alliance
Doesn't matter anymore, given the butchering job done these days at the mastering stage in the "Quest for the Loudest CD". They might as well record direct to 8 bit for all I care - it's not like they need the dynamic range these days.
Perhaps what they need is a mixing board with Volumes that go to 11:)
My Athlon64 rig is solid as a rock and the more articles I encounter like this, the more I believe I switched over from Intel at the right time. I think AMD has pulled ahead permanently this time.
Like most./ers, I put together my own 'rig', allowing me to select the most highly rated, well-known and supported components at an affordable price. I have no need for underpowered systems with a bunch of useless software bundles - I prefer to put my money where I know it counts.
I'm not a 14 yr old gamer, either. I earn a living designing software. The Athlon64 is about the best price/performaner (esp. considering the 'free' upgrade when moving to a 64-bit OS) that's come along in a very long time.
You forgot the requisite food reference, typically something related to chicken wings/beer/other tailgate-related-food-items.
Madden never passes on an opportunity to discuss food.
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True, decently encoded mp3s are barely distinguishable from their CD counterparts to the vast majority of listeners.
Also true, even poorly encoded mp3s are capable of sounding vastly superior to the collection of cassettes and 4-tracks, which formed previous generations of portable music. Still, the record companies charged more for those formats than vinyl and the music producers didn't complain about their paychecks back then.
The real difference that is affecting the livelihood of music professionals these days has less to do with the quality of the format than the quality of music produced these days. That and the end of the music industry's archaic and monopolistic distribution model.
I was going to respond with a He-Man comment, but I have a nagging fear... either it was one of those "I ate too much pizza night" nightmares or Dolph Lundgren beat me to it... http://imdb.com/title/tt0093507 Oh god, it's true.
I'm still holding out hope for a live-action feature presentation of Hammy Hampster, complete with Kung Fu guinnea pigs, robot rats, and fast cars and a radio-active hamster with more powers than Q. Of course, none of that was in the original, but what makes you think Hollywood producers have a clue, care or intention of researching the original before cashing in on the latest fad?
The Beatles' collective solo work proves that they were greater than the sum of their parts. Plastic Ono Band, All Things Must Pass and Band on the Run are fine examples of each artists capabilities when they still had something to prove. However, it didn't take long before the novelty of their solo careers waned and they lost their muse. No doubt, they needed a break from each other by 1970 (if not sooner, but it's hard to argue against an album like Abbey Road). They should have met up every 5 years or so for a project - I'm sure they would have appreciated each other's input so much more under less of a grind.
If there is a more advanced alien race out there, I'm sure their moto is "Don't Fuck With Mother Nature".
We're sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Had to say it - sorry.
I vote for beaming William Shatner into space now. Why wait for ashes?
An orbit in 2.6 days, huh? That's gotta be a record. Barely time to recover from the New Year's hangover before popping the cork again.
Hire a public servant to read the binary content of the digital archives to cassette tapes. "One, zero, zero, one, one, ..., please turn over cassette # 100393836737 and proceed".
Proven to be flood proof.
Maybe another civilization has a monopoly on the galaxy and is out there killing off every other species that pops it's head out of the hole. Maybe humanity is one of the few civilizations out there that don't know about the big bad guys that the rest of the universe is hiding from. They're probably laughing at all the noise we're broadcasting into space and counting our days.
Eating the less deserving was one proposal mentioned, but there are more realistic options. Long term, I'd prefer the option of a limited childbirth policy to a hellish existence accompanied by an increased death rate due to environmental influences (disease, pollution, natural disaster). Long term, this is the inevitable solution mother nature will force on us if we do nothing.
These days, even the bears are packing.
Isn't this the general methodology employed by id Software? I'm sure Carmack and his team spent much time behind the scenes prototyping ideas, but the actual game release was preceeded by a very lengthy test release process to solicit feedback early in the cycle.
I'm still on ICQ - where did everybody go? Hello? :)
50. 'Earth - Final Conflict' Never saw it. Please, who's the goof in the leopard shirt - is that supposed to by sci-fi? How about Mr. Hollywood, with his MTV futuristic hair hilights. Or Ms. Spandex - how many times that that been overdone to attract the 13yr old pimply fan? Show me tits or get off my tv.
49. 'The Wild Wild West' Before my time. I assume lots of stupid cold war bullshit (i feel sorry that that generation - more details to follow). That's that Jaws guy from Bond, right - he should have had his own tV show. He probably inspired that dude with the clock in Public Enemy. 48. '3rd Rock From The Sun' John Lithgow (stupid name) always bugged me. And Jane Curtin is about as funny as Dan Akroyd - and that's coming from a Canuck. That big blonde chick always kinda turned me on - something tells me she's a sexual deviant. I hated the show and only watched it when the big blonde chick was on the screen - guess I was hoping for something kinky to happen.
47. 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' I fuckin loved this show when I was 9 yrs old. Good thing I grew up. Oh, and fuck Erin Grey - the bad chick was hotter. If I were Buck, I'd sell out Earth to go down on her.
46. 'That Was Then' Whatever... never heard of it. I was probably too busy watching Automan or something.
45. 'The Greatest American Hero' I fucking hated this show. The whole premise of the show was that maybe this week he'd find the instructions to his suit so something cool would actually happen. No luck - another hour of him flying into a tree/building/window/car/outhouse. Why was this show an hour long? It felt like a decade.
44. 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' Superman is a wimp. Now they turn it into a chick-flick. Of course, no lookie at Terri Hatcher's tits. Next...
43. 'Nowhere Man'
Good Beatles song. Why is this on here?
42. 'Science Fiction Theatre' I spent my Saturday mornings/afternoons watching one of four things - Hanna Barbara Laugh A Lympics, Some local station's (channel 20 in Detroit) Kung Fu Theatre (or whatever it was called), UltraMan, or Creature Feature. This is high-brow television. None of these are on this list, so fuck off with this bullshit Sci-Fi theatre - it had no chance of competing.
41. 'Futurama' I like it - no idea why I never watch it. I have no idea when it's on, but I only watch Battlestar Galactica torrents or Hockey Night in Canada (once hockey starts up again) these days.
40. 'The Thunderbirds' Hated it. Pinocchio (how the fuck do you spell that?) in spaceships. No thanks. They look fucking creepy to me. More cold war bullshit, too. I feel sorry for the generation that was raised on howdy doody and this shit. How fucking miserable a childhood could you have? That, and ovaltine. Pretty much explains why these people are so fucked up.
39. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' I never watched this, probably because I thought the name was so stupid. Any it didn't have bionics, spaceships, light sabers or titties. How can a guy be from Uncle? That's a person, not a place. And you don't have to spell it out to me, I can fucking read, ok?
38. 'Batman' This isn't "camp". It's gay, ok? Fucking gay-ass tights, some guy named Robbin and a bunch of stupid "utility belt" gadgets don't make up for this garbage of a show. oh, yeah, he's the "dark" superhero. I'm scared.
37. 'Space 1999' Why don't these spaceships sound as cool as in Star Wars? I can't hear anything? For some reason, I never watched it much - I think all the sideburns and mascara scared me away.
36. 'The Bionic Woman' I'd watch the bionic hamster (btw, where is Hammy Hamster on this list - I fucking loved that show!), so woman/dog/robot/librarian/rock/toothpick - it doesn't matter, if it's bionic, I watched it.
35. 'Battlestar Galactica' (Original) not bad - except for that meddling kid and his robot dog. Lorne Green is Canadian - we fucking love him up here because he got to be on tv and little house on the prairie
What about Alf? At least as relevant as 3rd Rock. I hated both shows, so it makes no difference to me.
I do agree, however, that Battlestar Galactica (new season) contains some of the best writing of any genre on TV.
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I assume that link is incorrect. I saw females more than once. Some of them even looked kinda hot.
You need a variable-speed projector to do this properly. 8mm is normally projected at 18fps. You want to be able to adjust it to 20fps to eliminate flicker since the video camera records at 30fps.
Many people prefer the look of film over video, even at 8mm resolution.
8mm is still used professionally today for artistic effect in many movies, music videos and commercials. It may not capture as much detail as even a miniDV format, but it still has that "film" look that many strive for. A well-digitized 8mm would surprise many people and could be mistaken for 16mm or better once you eliminate all the jitter and flicker that is due more to crappy projectors than the film format itself..
This guy both sells the service and the hardware to do it yourself. The Academy Film Archive even uses his equipment to digital archive their collection.
Does anyone ever stop and think, "gee, where did all the fireflies go?" ... I could go on.
or the frogs, chipmunks, birds, salamanders, butterflies,
How many people know what a firefly is these days? We've decimated our ecology by removing the natural vegetation from our front and back yards in some stupid quest for the perfect lawn: uniform, monoculter, weed and pest free.
Then we wonder where all the wildlife went (we killed their homes and removed their food) or why the summers keep getting hotter every year (we've replaced shading, cooling trees with lawn and concrete, or why the air quality sucks so badly and little Timmy has lung cancer and has to breath from a fucking oxygen tank (we've polluted our lawns with chemicals pushed from an industry that doesn't give a fuck about your kids - only your money).
These genetic monstrosities (if they were ever to become even remotely possible) do nothing to restore the ecosystem that we and our animals friends rely on to survive.
Get educated about the environment and the small part you can do to restore the remaining fragments. Even your little patch of lawn can make a difference.
wild ones
green landscaping
plant conservation alliance
Doesn't matter anymore, given the butchering job done these days at the mastering stage in the "Quest for the Loudest CD". They might as well record direct to 8 bit for all I care - it's not like they need the dynamic range these days.
:)
Perhaps what they need is a mixing board with Volumes that go to 11
My Athlon64 rig is solid as a rock and the more articles I encounter like this, the more I believe I switched over from Intel at the right time. I think AMD has pulled ahead permanently this time. Like most ./ers, I put together my own 'rig', allowing me to select the most highly rated, well-known and supported components at an affordable price. I have no need for underpowered systems with a bunch of useless software bundles - I prefer to put my money where I know it counts.
I'm not a 14 yr old gamer, either. I earn a living designing software. The Athlon64 is about the best price/performaner (esp. considering the 'free' upgrade when moving to a 64-bit OS) that's come along in a very long time.
You forgot the requisite food reference, typically something related to chicken wings/beer/other tailgate-related-food-items.
Madden never passes on an opportunity to discuss food.