One of my most rewatched movie recently is Ronin, and I love it just the way it is. You could hi-def that fucker up the ass I couldn't enjoy it anymore that I already do on my crappy old DVD player.
I agree wholeheartedly with a comment earlier that it'll all be about network delivery pretty soon anyway.
The only way I'm going to be able to get commercial free Formula 1, Cricket and a few other un-american sporting events on cable here in the NW corner of the USA is if they make room by beaming all the regular TV crap from space.
Most music today really is crap, but so was most of the music in every time period. For every Led Zeppelin in the 70's there were a thousand crap bands making crap music, same with the 60's, 50's, 40's Etc Etc..
It's strange that you should mention The Cult because the 80's was responsible for producing some of the crappiest as well as some of the best music ever written IMHO.
I was with a band signed to the same label as The Cult in England, Beggars Banquet records, and they seemed to pick pretty good bands making pretty good music. They had a relatively small budget so they couldn't take as many chances as the likes of RCA, WB and other majors. So you tended to get a lot of crap music basically designed for people to dance and get drunk to, build walls to, shit to and anything else you can think of apart from actually listening to music to.
Bottom line is Britney Spears is a steaming pile of crap compared to Kate Bush, but you try telling that to kids today:-)
And wasn't Dave the only one exposed to space who survived. The header says "two astronauts have to cross from one ship to another without spacesuits" yet Frank was dead a few seconds after his umbilical was severed by HAL, clearly incapable of crossing from one ship to another.
Every device on Earth has what's known as a MAC address, which is short for My Address on my Computer, and it's a pretty long string of numbers that help other devices know which device is being seen, heard or sensed across a network. Once the Nads in the master device sense these numbers they instantly tense up and freeze. It takes a few moments for the Nads to unfreeze and release your My Address in my Computer number ready for other Nads to sense.
Why don't they just put all the waste materials into bottles and float it out into the lake. That way they get rid of the chemicals and stuff without polluting the lake.
"...spend the extra $100 and to get a player that is going to support you for much longer."
It's like buying a walking stick without a rubber plug thing on the end. Why spend $70 for a regular walking stick without a plug thing when you can spend an extra $5 and get one with one on it, on the end there. So that's $75 with a plug as opposed to $70 for one without one. Seems like a no-brainer to me. Spend the extra $100 and think of the future you. You'll thank yourself down the road.
FWIW I just took a look through my tool box and the tool I use the most is a screwdriver. When I bought it there was a choice of colours - blue, red and yellow (and maybe an orange one). I chose the red one. Most of my other tools are made out of metal, so not many aesthetic elements to choose from there, other than maybe choose a big hunking over-engineered Molegrip as opposed to a cheaper looking Molegrip, the one you would choose:-)
I read the Foundation books after reading EE Doc Smith's "Skylark" series in my early teens, and it was quite a change of pace I remember:-) I'll be picking up a copy of The Black Swan next time I'm near a bookstore. Looks good, thanks.
I was pretty close to adding a Flash version to the existing QT (H.264) and WMV formats I currently offer clients, but the quality just wasn't there. It's great for talking head and animations, but try boosting the bit rate to make it useful for "full-motion" clips longer than a minute or so and the file sizes get too big to do anything with.
I think YouTube has done the right thing to go with H.264, and it's a really big deal for Apple on so many levels...and yet another nail in Microsofts all powerful wmv.
When I were a lad we'd use good old fashioned scissors and sticky tape to make pictures that looked a lot better than this blurry computerized gibberish.
Weird. I see this exact response a lot on the Speed TV discussion forums when Formula 1 racing fans complain about the disproportionate amount of NASCAR the channel shows every day.
"When I get around to them, I might rip cassettes at a lower rate (128 or 160) because there's so much missing already compared to the other source formats...or maybe not."
I have The Best Of Charles Mingus on a Compatible Stereo Cassette from the early 80's (ATLANTIC CS 1555) and it sounds amazing. The folks responsible for mastering this cassette saturated every magnetic particle with information, producing one of the best sounding recordings I've ever heard. I recorded it as a 24-bit AIF for archive purposes and imported it into iTunes as a 256k VBR AAC and it sounds pretty close to the original output from the tape deck.
I'd suggest capturing any cassette not recorded with Dolby B at a higher bit than you would a CD to get the saturation feel they have.
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One of my most rewatched movie recently is Ronin, and I love it just the way it is. You could hi-def that fucker up the ass I couldn't enjoy it anymore that I already do on my crappy old DVD player.
I agree wholeheartedly with a comment earlier that it'll all be about network delivery pretty soon anyway.
I couldn't agree more.
The only way I'm going to be able to get commercial free Formula 1, Cricket and a few other un-american sporting events on cable here in the NW corner of the USA is if they make room by beaming all the regular TV crap from space.
"Is there even a category for today's music?"
:-)
Yeah, it's called Crap
Most music today really is crap, but so was most of the music in every time period. For every Led Zeppelin in the 70's there were a thousand crap bands making crap music, same with the 60's, 50's, 40's Etc Etc..
:-)
It's strange that you should mention The Cult because the 80's was responsible for producing some of the crappiest as well as some of the best music ever written IMHO.
I was with a band signed to the same label as The Cult in England, Beggars Banquet records, and they seemed to pick pretty good bands making pretty good music. They had a relatively small budget so they couldn't take as many chances as the likes of RCA, WB and other majors. So you tended to get a lot of crap music basically designed for people to dance and get drunk to, build walls to, shit to and anything else you can think of apart from actually listening to music to.
Bottom line is Britney Spears is a steaming pile of crap compared to Kate Bush, but you try telling that to kids today
Jeez, talk about old news. Come on Slashdot, get with the program already.
And wasn't Dave the only one exposed to space who survived. The header says "two astronauts have to cross from one ship to another without spacesuits" yet Frank was dead a few seconds after his umbilical was severed by HAL, clearly incapable of crossing from one ship to another.
My pleasure.
Every device on Earth has what's known as a MAC address, which is short for My Address on my Computer, and it's a pretty long string of numbers that help other devices know which device is being seen, heard or sensed across a network. Once the Nads in the master device sense these numbers they instantly tense up and freeze. It takes a few moments for the Nads to unfreeze and release your My Address in my Computer number ready for other Nads to sense.
Hope that helps.
Difficult to tell. They should make it see-through so we can see what's going on in there, or at least the breast parts like Barbarella's.
OK Lords and Ladies, don't get your knickers in a twist.
Why don't they just put all the waste materials into bottles and float it out into the lake. That way they get rid of the chemicals and stuff without polluting the lake.
"...spend the extra $100 and to get a player that is going to support you for much longer."
It's like buying a walking stick without a rubber plug thing on the end. Why spend $70 for a regular walking stick without a plug thing when you can spend an extra $5 and get one with one on it, on the end there. So that's $75 with a plug as opposed to $70 for one without one. Seems like a no-brainer to me. Spend the extra $100 and think of the future you. You'll thank yourself down the road.
I don't know about you, but the thought of threatening virtually everything gives me a giant hard-on.
"A car requires over 3,000 pieces - to make a human only requires 2 bumpers and a connecting rod."
Ah, now I know what Grace Jones meant when she sang "pull up to the bumper baby".
I thought she was singing about being a Race Queen or something.
FWIW I just took a look through my tool box and the tool I use the most is a screwdriver. When I bought it there was a choice of colours - blue, red and yellow (and maybe an orange one). I chose the red one. Most of my other tools are made out of metal, so not many aesthetic elements to choose from there, other than maybe choose a big hunking over-engineered Molegrip as opposed to a cheaper looking Molegrip, the one you would choose :-)
I get spammed a lot on mine from manufacturers of ass width reduction cream.
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I read the Foundation books after reading EE Doc Smith's "Skylark" series in my early teens, and it was quite a change of pace I remember :-) I'll be picking up a copy of The Black Swan next time I'm near a bookstore. Looks good, thanks.
Fuck The Black Swan, pick up Asimov's Foundation Series!
I was pretty close to adding a Flash version to the existing QT (H.264) and WMV formats I currently offer clients, but the quality just wasn't there. It's great for talking head and animations, but try boosting the bit rate to make it useful for "full-motion" clips longer than a minute or so and the file sizes get too big to do anything with.
I think YouTube has done the right thing to go with H.264, and it's a really big deal for Apple on so many levels...and yet another nail in Microsofts all powerful wmv.
Anything that screws RealNetworks' Rhapsody into the ground where it belongs is fine by me.
When I were a lad we'd use good old fashioned scissors and sticky tape to make pictures that looked a lot better than this blurry computerized gibberish.
Who's saying it's innovative?
"Keep whining...nothing is gonna change."
Weird. I see this exact response a lot on the Speed TV discussion forums when Formula 1 racing fans complain about the disproportionate amount of NASCAR the channel shows every day.
How did people listen to this stuff?
With ears of a clown.
"When I get around to them, I might rip cassettes at a lower rate (128 or 160) because there's so much missing already compared to the other source formats...or maybe not."
I have The Best Of Charles Mingus on a Compatible Stereo Cassette from the early 80's (ATLANTIC CS 1555) and it sounds amazing. The folks responsible for mastering this cassette saturated every magnetic particle with information, producing one of the best sounding recordings I've ever heard. I recorded it as a 24-bit AIF for archive purposes and imported it into iTunes as a 256k VBR AAC and it sounds pretty close to the original output from the tape deck.
I'd suggest capturing any cassette not recorded with Dolby B at a higher bit than you would a CD to get the saturation feel they have.
There should be an icon next to the + that indicates whether the higher bit rate version is taken from a master. Maybe a gold + icon would do it.