I'd imagine that would raise a bigger stink as the console copylockers are much more organized.
So long as Blockbuster or other store can rent the game discs / DVDs, a library can buy the same package and charge zero to borrow it. It sucks to have a taxpayer funded competitor... but if that's how the local government wants to spend its money, what's stopping them?
It also takes a steady time slot. Both Futurama and Family Guy, if I recall correctly, were victims of FOX bumping it around their lineup a whole lot trying to find where it'd work best, but inevitably just screwing with their audience's head by not letting them get settled with when the show was on.
Fox Sunday is a very dangerous territory if your name isn't The Simpsons or The X-Files because Fox honestly doesn't know how much of a Sunday it has during the NFL season. If a late-starting game ties and goes into overtime, or simply is played slowly, it runs into the East Coast primetime lineup. In fact, the NFL now recommends networks allocate three hours and fifteen minutes for game broadcasts, so that affiliates that show a late game expect that they will have football during their 7pm ET half hour.
This really gets confusing in that Fox will often start their primetime lineup on time for some East Coast affiliates, but delete a half hour show or maybe two for those who deal which have a football runover problem. This means that some of the nation sees an episode, while other parts will end up missing it.
Futurama got skipped several times in most of the nation due to this during its network run. Also, when a new episode gets ditched to most of the east coast due to sports runover, the west coast is usually fed a rerun rather than the scheduled new episode, and that also stings a bit.
Somehow, I see Cartoon Network's Adult Swim being a much steadier place to park any revivals of Futurama and Family Guy.
That represents values I've seen radio-level playlist generators consider that the home-level ones do not keep track of... tempo flow as you describe is not yet being considered, and also crossfades are being done at a "hard" time value, while real radio marks off the "lead-in" and "lead-out" of songs so that they never fade over vocals, and use a proper station jingle when going between songs with a hard stop and a hard start.
I think you're using the wrong interface software... get a software that lets you rate your own music, so you make sure that the 1-star songs don't come up very often.
Random shuffle of recorded music bears a resemblence to the other way people listen to their favorite genre of music... radio play. On the radio, rarely are two songs from the same artist played back to back, and it's extremely rare for twelve songs of the same artist to be played in a row.
But, actually, radio play is not a truely random selection. Radio programmers mark certain slow-paced songs as "do not play in the morning drive" because nobody wants to be put back to sleep while driving to work. They also bias their selections towards favoring more popular songs, artists who are coming to town soon, recent "fresh" hits, and the songs that best define their format.
iTunes, Real, and nearly every other music organizing program are starting to catch onto this with their playlist generator, which very closely resembles the way that radio program directors deal with their playlists... setting a ruleset that creates a quasi-random base for their day, and then displaying the results for potential human manipulation.
The end result is that we're all basically running our own cluster of radio stations. Sometimes you feel like listening to the songs you've rated 5-stars, sometimes you want a mix of high-energy fast-paced songs, sometimes you want some soft background music. Each of those is defined as different playlist, and as new music is added into your system they automatically drop into the rotation on their appropriate lists.
So, there you have it. As much as we want to escape radio, we love it when we're the one running the board...
That's 2.5GB a day. Not much at all. Sounds like it at first, but it isn't. That's roughly 100MB per hour, 1.5MB per minute, 0.25MB / 250Kb / 2Mbit a second. Most cable connections could support that.
2Mb a second swamps a T1, and swamps most consumer connections in the USA because they can download that fast, but not upload.
Not to mention, it's highly unlikely that the downloads were distributed evenly throughout the day, so high traffic period would require bursts faster than the average. In short, you've got to be at a hosting facility to get that kind of bandwidth.
Apple should improve their protection, not try to hide the fact that it is fucked up.
Unbreakable digital security is impossible. Therefore, security-by-legislation is used to assure that once the security puzzle is solved, the solution isn't published.
It's the only way DRM's going to work. If that solution isn't acceptable, then there's no way that the ??AAs are going to accept the download industry existing.
SGI doesn't have any other consumer products, and what the Maya product needs now is marketing. There's really not too many other things they can do to develop the product left... it's a matter of sales more than development.
Spam itself is only questionably illegal, what some people consider an opt-in list other people call "spam", and even the CAN-SPAM Act isn't exactly bulletproof.
However, fraud is illegal in all forms no matter how it's transmitted.
The point of programming is to convince people of the targeted demographic to tune in. Program directors cringe when somebody outside of their target demo says they're a big fan... it's a sign that they've missed the mark.:)
When are people going to realize you can't legislate away a technical problem? (assuming you think IP infringement is a problem, i guess)
It's security-by-legislation. They know that unbreakable encryption doesn't exist, it's only a matter of time before it gets blown. However, at least this will slow the process of breaking it by trying to scare away people who don't want to go to jail...
Radio program directors would absolutely love to see a database consisting of records of what his competitors are playing. They could then sort and analyse that data by parts of the day and such, and realize what songs and artists his competitors are playing in heavy rotation.
He then could either duplicate that in his selections to move his station closer in format to the competitor, or intentionally avoid those selections to make it appear he has a wider variety of music on his station.
The data's out there, going over the air waves. It's just so expensive to pay people to log it...
You know, it used to be the responsibility of the DJ to make sure listeners knew the name and artist of the tracks they played. They didn't have to say it every song, but they should do so before or after any new song that might not be familiar to the listeners yet.
Of course, that was before Clear Channel laid all the local DJs off in most markets. Now, the same network DJ banter can be heard before different songs in some cases...
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I'd imagine that would raise a bigger stink as the console copylockers are much more organized.
So long as Blockbuster or other store can rent the game discs / DVDs, a library can buy the same package and charge zero to borrow it. It sucks to have a taxpayer funded competitor... but if that's how the local government wants to spend its money, what's stopping them?
There's also The Open CD which is a similar project with the same purpose... point-and-click installs of several useful apps.
I can't believe this... we've run out of original topics.
Ask Slashdot has gone into reruns...
There isn't even an article here and we still got a dupe.
How long until we hear about an "architectural piracy" case over the design of small-city houses...
It also takes a steady time slot. Both Futurama and Family Guy, if I recall correctly, were victims of FOX bumping it around their lineup a whole lot trying to find where it'd work best, but inevitably just screwing with their audience's head by not letting them get settled with when the show was on.
Fox Sunday is a very dangerous territory if your name isn't The Simpsons or The X-Files because Fox honestly doesn't know how much of a Sunday it has during the NFL season. If a late-starting game ties and goes into overtime, or simply is played slowly, it runs into the East Coast primetime lineup. In fact, the NFL now recommends networks allocate three hours and fifteen minutes for game broadcasts, so that affiliates that show a late game expect that they will have football during their 7pm ET half hour.
This really gets confusing in that Fox will often start their primetime lineup on time for some East Coast affiliates, but delete a half hour show or maybe two for those who deal which have a football runover problem. This means that some of the nation sees an episode, while other parts will end up missing it.
Futurama got skipped several times in most of the nation due to this during its network run. Also, when a new episode gets ditched to most of the east coast due to sports runover, the west coast is usually fed a rerun rather than the scheduled new episode, and that also stings a bit.
Somehow, I see Cartoon Network's Adult Swim being a much steadier place to park any revivals of Futurama and Family Guy.
That represents values I've seen radio-level playlist generators consider that the home-level ones do not keep track of... tempo flow as you describe is not yet being considered, and also crossfades are being done at a "hard" time value, while real radio marks off the "lead-in" and "lead-out" of songs so that they never fade over vocals, and use a proper station jingle when going between songs with a hard stop and a hard start.
I think you're using the wrong interface software... get a software that lets you rate your own music, so you make sure that the 1-star songs don't come up very often.
Random shuffle of recorded music bears a resemblence to the other way people listen to their favorite genre of music... radio play. On the radio, rarely are two songs from the same artist played back to back, and it's extremely rare for twelve songs of the same artist to be played in a row.
But, actually, radio play is not a truely random selection. Radio programmers mark certain slow-paced songs as "do not play in the morning drive" because nobody wants to be put back to sleep while driving to work. They also bias their selections towards favoring more popular songs, artists who are coming to town soon, recent "fresh" hits, and the songs that best define their format.
iTunes, Real, and nearly every other music organizing program are starting to catch onto this with their playlist generator, which very closely resembles the way that radio program directors deal with their playlists... setting a ruleset that creates a quasi-random base for their day, and then displaying the results for potential human manipulation.
The end result is that we're all basically running our own cluster of radio stations. Sometimes you feel like listening to the songs you've rated 5-stars, sometimes you want a mix of high-energy fast-paced songs, sometimes you want some soft background music. Each of those is defined as different playlist, and as new music is added into your system they automatically drop into the rotation on their appropriate lists.
So, there you have it. As much as we want to escape radio, we love it when we're the one running the board...
That's 2.5GB a day. Not much at all. Sounds like it at first, but it isn't. That's roughly 100MB per hour, 1.5MB per minute, 0.25MB / 250Kb / 2Mbit a second. Most cable connections could support that.
2Mb a second swamps a T1, and swamps most consumer connections in the USA because they can download that fast, but not upload.
Not to mention, it's highly unlikely that the downloads were distributed evenly throughout the day, so high traffic period would require bursts faster than the average. In short, you've got to be at a hosting facility to get that kind of bandwidth.
Apple should improve their protection, not try to hide the fact that it is fucked up.
Unbreakable digital security is impossible. Therefore, security-by-legislation is used to assure that once the security puzzle is solved, the solution isn't published.
It's the only way DRM's going to work. If that solution isn't acceptable, then there's no way that the ??AAs are going to accept the download industry existing.
SGI doesn't have any other consumer products, and what the Maya product needs now is marketing. There's really not too many other things they can do to develop the product left... it's a matter of sales more than development.
Spam itself is only questionably illegal, what some people consider an opt-in list other people call "spam", and even the CAN-SPAM Act isn't exactly bulletproof.
However, fraud is illegal in all forms no matter how it's transmitted.
Consider the phrase
licensed.
/duck /dodge /hide
You better run. You better take cover.
What, you didn't hear about the new slogan? "Slashdot. Political action for nerds. Stuff that makes a difference."
I just wanna know if Taco's going to endorce Bush or Kerry this year...
We'd much rather comment about it in the comfort of our big cushy computer chairs.
Just print the letter instead of e-mailing it...
The point of programming is to convince people of the targeted demographic to tune in. Program directors cringe when somebody outside of their target demo says they're a big fan... it's a sign that they've missed the mark. :)
When are people going to realize you can't legislate away a technical problem? (assuming you think IP infringement is a problem, i guess)
It's security-by-legislation. They know that unbreakable encryption doesn't exist, it's only a matter of time before it gets blown. However, at least this will slow the process of breaking it by trying to scare away people who don't want to go to jail...
Just about as effective as security-by-obscurity.
Wait a second, the ??AA organziations are letting Austrailia copy our copyright laws? Make them write their own... :)
You're using a service that's presently fully funded by US taxpayer dollars, yet you're a Canadian...
Thats why we have newspapers. Internet/TV news is rarely as comprehensive as the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times.
The NY Times operates a website. Wall Street Journal reporters appear frequenly on CNBC to talk about the exact topics they write about.
Nah... it'd just report
Error: Music was not input...
Radio program directors would absolutely love to see a database consisting of records of what his competitors are playing. They could then sort and analyse that data by parts of the day and such, and realize what songs and artists his competitors are playing in heavy rotation.
He then could either duplicate that in his selections to move his station closer in format to the competitor, or intentionally avoid those selections to make it appear he has a wider variety of music on his station.
The data's out there, going over the air waves. It's just so expensive to pay people to log it...
You know, it used to be the responsibility of the DJ to make sure listeners knew the name and artist of the tracks they played. They didn't have to say it every song, but they should do so before or after any new song that might not be familiar to the listeners yet.
Of course, that was before Clear Channel laid all the local DJs off in most markets. Now, the same network DJ banter can be heard before different songs in some cases...
Your contract with the service provider is on an at-will basis.
What, you're suggesting he avoid locking into a long term contract? Most of the service providers these days on insisting on them...