"Me, I'm sticking with buying and ripping my own CD's until someone gives me a real standard format for download."
Just curious. What "standard" format are you ripping to, AIFF, WAV or MP3?
If it's to WAV then that's not really a standard. It's a format that Microsoft created for use on their Windows operating system. It's basically AIFF (the format that is used on CD's) with a different header file, and a couple of other tweaks, to make it into a full on Microsoft format.
If you're ripping to the MP3 "standard" you may as well rip to AAC instead. It's the new standard.
Please take a few moments to check out the link and see what the people who invented MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) have to say.
All I can say to anyone like yourself who wants to be able to play Microsoft's proprietary and unlicensable DRM wrapped proprietary WMA format on all the hundreds of devices that support Microsoft's proprietary and unlicensable DRM wrapped proprietary WMA format is go for it.
Apple certainly isn't stopping you. Neither is HP, or Real Etc..
Or maybe it's not about formats, choice and DRM at all, maybe it's because Apple has a majority of the digital audio market, and you don't like that.
Believe me, I don't mean to come across as flamebait here, it's just that the old choice argument is wearing really thin.
You're in danger of sounding like a Microsoft executive, without the yachts and the multi million dollar houses!
I've spent the last five christmas's scouring toy stores and crappy walmart stores for good old fashioned lego bricks for my kid, so she can learn the joys of building lego stuff like I did, only to be greeted with shelves and shelves (all full I may add) of Bionicles, Technonicles, Darth Vader Death Scenes and Testonicles, with not one single Lego brick between them.
A few years ago I resorted to buying 15lbs of bricks on eBay from someone in Canada, and she's been playing with them ever since.
Dammit, why did it take executives so long to figure out that these Tie Fighter models, comprised of pieces that can only ever make...a Tie Fighter, went against everything that Lego stands for, i.e. making stuff out of basic materials.
"Except for the flexible part, it's missing that, it's still DRM'd."
Enough with DRM already! Hey, CD's aren't so flexible either! Have you ever tried playing a CD at work when the only copy you have is at home? Or better still, have you tried playing a CD in a VHS deck, or on a record player?
The music lover of the future will not look upon DRM as being any different than the music lover of today not being able to play a CD because the only copy they have is at home on a shelf, or not being able to play a CD on anything other than a CD player.
It's all restrictive, it just depends on how high your tolerance to restrictions is.
Before AAC I was ripping my CD's to 256 VBR MP3, which was as close to CD quality as I needed for most of my music (electronic, prog rock, jazz and some classical) but since AAC I'm getting awesome results at 192.
I have about $100 of 128 AAC's from the iTunes store which sound really amazing for the size, and more than happy listening to them on my iPod.
As for WMA the differences in sound quality are negligible, and certainly no better or worse than AAC. So your choice of format really boils down to what player you have, what OS you're running and whether or not you want to support a convicted monopolist in its fight for total control of all known media formats!
If they sold big boxes of plain, straightforward assorted bricks I'd be happy, but all I can ever find are the kits, which rarely contain any actual Lego bricks.
If only someone in school, or among friends and family, had said these words when I was a kid. Man, the sparks would have started flying! Those little cogs in my brain would have been spinning like crazy.
All I remember from teachers and relatives was "get a job". Not once was there any indication whatsover that it was possible to have a cool idea and run with it, make your own career. Actually create a job out of thin air.
9th image down in the NAVCAM folder, which is in the site-000 folder.
Selected Point:
XYZ in Site 0 [m]:
(-0.797,0.145,-0.156)
That little white patch at top left of the solar panel, with the black antennae in the middle. I think it triples as a transmitter and colour balance.
BTW anyone know if there's a way of exporting a file with coordinates etc. that can be imported into someone else's Maestro to show a location on an image?
Just loaded this onto my G4 here at the office and it's blowing my mind. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm kind of involved in this mission, which we all are right!
I cannot wait to get home and put it on my daughters iMac - she's 5 and loves that "little mars robot". Maestro will really help her get a feel for what's going on, and make her feel involved too.
Wouldn't they rather be picking up all the disenfranchised Windows users?
Needless to say replacing all those PC's for Apple G4's and 5's is a massive roadblock for such a switch, but at least people get a taste for something other than Windows, which can't be a bad thing on any level.
Could anyone attending Macworld tomorrow please sneak into the Apple section and take a good look around for a little curtained off area surrounded by tiny five inch high security guards.
This will be a dead giveaway that mini iPod's are going to be announced!
Maybe some of the hardware on this table may explain what they're using at JPL these days.
Looks like three Apple laptops and one IBM Thinkpad.
Certainly a far cry from the predominantly Windows based laptops predominant only four years ago! That reminds me, wasn't there a Windows Only directive at JPL in 2000?
Once you've exhausted your techie base you're left with the common cattle to support your profit margins.
I think this is one of the main reasons why Dell got so big in the first place, because there weren't enough of your "common cattle" type consumers to turn around to Dell and say "your PC's suck" (back when they did).
Instead you have tens of thousands of corporate techies providing just enough support to stop those proles of yours from turning around and telling them to stop buying Dell. Maybe that's why they closed down most of their tech support call centers, they didn't need them because you were doing their job for them.
So maybe if it wasn't for the MCSE endowed techie base calling the purchasing shots for the past ten years maybe Apple, and others, could have gotten a little more credit, and market share, allowing for further diversity into what almost became a totally Dell, Intel, Microsoft controlled World if it hadn't have been for the like of Torvalds, Jobs and the like.
Just take a few extra moments, if you haven't already, to really look at the image, and realize this is one of the objects of wonderment that has been gazed upon by our ancestors, all the way back to the beginning of our history. And now it's right there in a close-up photo.
It really is amazing that we can not only see what that old thing really looks like, but also get to check out the stuff it's made from when the spacecraft gets back here in a couple of years.
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"Me, I'm sticking with buying and ripping my own CD's until someone gives me a real standard format for download."
Just curious. What "standard" format are you ripping to, AIFF, WAV or MP3?
If it's to WAV then that's not really a standard. It's a format that Microsoft created for use on their Windows operating system. It's basically AIFF (the format that is used on CD's) with a different header file, and a couple of other tweaks, to make it into a full on Microsoft format.
If you're ripping to the MP3 "standard" you may as well rip to AAC instead. It's the new standard.
Please take a few moments to check out the link and see what the people who invented MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) have to say.
All I can say to anyone like yourself who wants to be able to play Microsoft's proprietary and unlicensable DRM wrapped proprietary WMA format on all the hundreds of devices that support Microsoft's proprietary and unlicensable DRM wrapped proprietary WMA format is go for it.
Apple certainly isn't stopping you. Neither is HP, or Real Etc..
Or maybe it's not about formats, choice and DRM at all, maybe it's because Apple has a majority of the digital audio market, and you don't like that.
Believe me, I don't mean to come across as flamebait here, it's just that the old choice argument is wearing really thin.
You're in danger of sounding like a Microsoft executive, without the yachts and the multi million dollar houses!
I've spent the last five christmas's scouring toy stores and crappy walmart stores for good old fashioned lego bricks for my kid, so she can learn the joys of building lego stuff like I did, only to be greeted with shelves and shelves (all full I may add) of Bionicles, Technonicles, Darth Vader Death Scenes and Testonicles, with not one single Lego brick between them.
A few years ago I resorted to buying 15lbs of bricks on eBay from someone in Canada, and she's been playing with them ever since.
Dammit, why did it take executives so long to figure out that these Tie Fighter models, comprised of pieces that can only ever make...a Tie Fighter, went against everything that Lego stands for, i.e. making stuff out of basic materials.
Ah well, better late than never I guess.
Long live Lego!
"I recommend watching the highest resolution and checking each frame."
And while you're at it...
"Except for the flexible part, it's missing that, it's still DRM'd."
Enough with DRM already! Hey, CD's aren't so flexible either! Have you ever tried playing a CD at work when the only copy you have is at home? Or better still, have you tried playing a CD in a VHS deck, or on a record player?
The music lover of the future will not look upon DRM as being any different than the music lover of today not being able to play a CD because the only copy they have is at home on a shelf, or not being able to play a CD on anything other than a CD player.
It's all restrictive, it just depends on how high your tolerance to restrictions is.
"I just ripped nearly all my CD's to 192 AAC"
Before AAC I was ripping my CD's to 256 VBR MP3, which was as close to CD quality as I needed for most of my music (electronic, prog rock, jazz and some classical) but since AAC I'm getting awesome results at 192.
I have about $100 of 128 AAC's from the iTunes store which sound really amazing for the size, and more than happy listening to them on my iPod.
As for WMA the differences in sound quality are negligible, and certainly no better or worse than AAC. So your choice of format really boils down to what player you have, what OS you're running and whether or not you want to support a convicted monopolist in its fight for total control of all known media formats!
There's still a missing link before Apple can start doing victory laps around Lake Bill - developers! developers! developers!
Take, for example, Discreet's total and absolute refusal to add Windows Media 9 encoding to their Cleaner for Mac digital video processing product.
I have to use my PC to produce Windows Media 9 content, in fact that is now the ONLY reason why I have a PC.
If they sold big boxes of plain, straightforward assorted bricks I'd be happy, but all I can ever find are the kits, which rarely contain any actual Lego bricks.
"probably"
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I AM LOST? You're Probably Lost is the premier silly site of our time. Orginal Content Added Monthly! * YPL is still on HIATUS! *.
If only someone in school, or among friends and family, had said these words when I was a kid. Man, the sparks would have started flying! Those little cogs in my brain would have been spinning like crazy.
All I remember from teachers and relatives was "get a job". Not once was there any indication whatsover that it was possible to have a cool idea and run with it, make your own career. Actually create a job out of thin air.
Here's hoping that PhotoshopCS also prevents common folk from printing gold bullion!
Just imagine how the lives of the rich would be ruined if that were to start happening!
Database/site-00/NAVCAM/2N126468579DNL0000P1502L0M 1
9th image down in the NAVCAM folder, which is in the site-000 folder.
Selected Point:
XYZ in Site 0 [m]:
(-0.797,0.145,-0.156)
That little white patch at top left of the solar panel, with the black antennae in the middle. I think it triples as a transmitter and colour balance.
BTW anyone know if there's a way of exporting a file with coordinates etc. that can be imported into someone else's Maestro to show a location on an image?
C'mon - at least put a shadow on it. Even better, a drop shadow!
Just loaded this onto my G4 here at the office and it's blowing my mind. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm kind of involved in this mission, which we all are right!
I cannot wait to get home and put it on my daughters iMac - she's 5 and loves that "little mars robot". Maestro will really help her get a feel for what's going on, and make her feel involved too.
Thanks JPL - Bring on that data!!
What's wrong with good old symmetrical encryption algorithms?
What's wrong with good old fashioned honesty? If people weren't so fucking nosey and crooked we wouldn't need encryption, passwords and crap!
How good, or bad, is this for Apple?
Wouldn't they rather be picking up all the disenfranchised Windows users?
Needless to say replacing all those PC's for Apple G4's and 5's is a massive roadblock for such a switch, but at least people get a taste for something other than Windows, which can't be a bad thing on any level.
Could anyone attending Macworld tomorrow please sneak into the Apple section and take a good look around for a little curtained off area surrounded by tiny five inch high security guards.
This will be a dead giveaway that mini iPod's are going to be announced!
Jobs saying he'd "love to" do anything becomes an Apple goal by default!
I'd figured 1 and 3 out before I posted, hence the ;-)
Needless to say your English is way better than my whatever your language is, so no offence OK.
...wishes to terminate the liscence...
...perhaps the liscences have not been terminated.
...they were terminating the liscences...
;-)
jeez. learn to spell license already dude
Maybe some of the hardware on this table may explain what they're using at JPL these days.
Looks like three Apple laptops and one IBM Thinkpad.
Certainly a far cry from the predominantly Windows based laptops predominant only four years ago! That reminds me, wasn't there a Windows Only directive at JPL in 2000?
ASA
Once you've exhausted your techie base you're left with the common cattle to support your profit margins.
I think this is one of the main reasons why Dell got so big in the first place, because there weren't enough of your "common cattle" type consumers to turn around to Dell and say "your PC's suck" (back when they did).
Instead you have tens of thousands of corporate techies providing just enough support to stop those proles of yours from turning around and telling them to stop buying Dell. Maybe that's why they closed down most of their tech support call centers, they didn't need them because you were doing their job for them.
So maybe if it wasn't for the MCSE endowed techie base calling the purchasing shots for the past ten years maybe Apple, and others, could have gotten a little more credit, and market share, allowing for further diversity into what almost became a totally Dell, Intel, Microsoft controlled World if it hadn't have been for the like of Torvalds, Jobs and the like.
where's MP3's benefit again, now that everything supports WMA?
Everything apart from the lowly iPod, of course!
Just take a few extra moments, if you haven't already, to really look at the image, and realize this is one of the objects of wonderment that has been gazed upon by our ancestors, all the way back to the beginning of our history. And now it's right there in a close-up photo.
It really is amazing that we can not only see what that old thing really looks like, but also get to check out the stuff it's made from when the spacecraft gets back here in a couple of years.
Truly awesome.