See the problem hre is alot of people are... ummm... stupid, dunmb, clueless, or whatever and just wouldn't get the questions, and them would copmlain, or sue just like the blind poeple are.
And with the letters its probley alot less then the idots you'd have with that system. Also you might get poeple claiming racial discrimination (this is america here) bceause they never heard a "knock knock" joke, or read alice in wonderland, or follow baseball.
You ever notice the absolutely stupid directions on some things? They are there for a reason (and not just liability).
You have way to much faith in poeples intelligance.
even with "- What's your name spelled backwards?" you'd have problems.
Well the lawyers are at it all websites should sue any blind/lynx visitors under the DMCA for circumventing ads and preventing the website from generatieng any revenue.
BECAUSE computers can just take the WAV and covert it to text pretty well nowadays. If you've seen the images they are complaining about they are all lines out to prevent OCR at that.
I was in downtown vancouver (BC canada) today and i do belive i didn't hear a single one of those anoying things, Thank God they got rid of em (where i was at least)
Helping out disabled people is good and all, but when the "help" starts annoying/hindering the majority of the population who isn't blind its not worth it.
Hell couldn't a blind person just ASK A FRIEND to create the account??? You only have to do it once. For gods sake, you americans and your lawyers make me bloody sick.
You know what, if they STOPED doing that and didn't tell anyone i'm sure they wouldn't lose anymore money, and would PROFIT more because they are no longer spending these billions on preventing cable theft.
People either steal or don't steal it, and there aren't many who are close to the line and get cable just beause they might get caught stealing it.
ACtauly the BEST way to deal with druges is make them leagal and tax the hell out of them (cigs and alchy anyone?)
and then use that tax money to compabt the problem with ads, teaching kids at a young age, and dealing with the health problems.
Also with legal drugs you remove overdoses, bad trips, contaminated drugs, shared needles, gangs, alot of organized crime, over filled jails, smugglers, the millions of $$$$s that go toward a drugwar that isn't going to be won, less poeple killed (cops and dealers alike) and the ability to keep very bad drugs outlawed, and keep they useage down to next to nothing as most poeople will just settle with the legal drugs that arn't so bad.
anywya i'm way of topic here (other then war on P2P is like war on drugs, theres no way to win)
He said Fastest 64bit PC, not faster PC, witch does make a diffrence as can you call a computer with a server/workstation class CPU in it a PC?
When i first read that i didn't belive the "fastest PC stuff" But i then noticed it said fastest 64bit PC witch could be true when you don't include all server/workstation 64 bit CPUs in that catagory.
wow 7 misspelled(thereâ(TM)s no hyphen) words in 690, I must be a REALLY bad speller, (and the first is a obvious typo) At least i used the right words. If your going to nitpick on spelling, why didn't you go after my punctuation!? i had missing periods, caps, and all sorts of other bad abbreviations (indy, corp).
See i wasn't pointing out your bad spelling, i was pointing how you just didn't know the proper word. unless you mean to tell me somehow you spelled prerogative, proactive witch i highly doubt. Learn English, spelling is secondary to actually knowing what word means what and how to form cohesive sentences that make sense.
And because you just ignored everything else i said, and dropped to the level you did, you just don't have anything else to say on this topic because your only argument was "Well the RIAA says its theft and bad so it must be! Its not the right/moral thing to do so it MUST be bad!" and just didn't take the time to think about whatâ(TM)s actual happening and just looked at the surface of the issue and don't want to admit it. Its people like you who don't take the time to look at the facts, and just take things at face value, that cause many of this worlds problems.
Since you showed no signs of thinking, just regurgitating stuff you read/heard (no surprise there, thatâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s taught in high schools these days) Iâ(TM)m not going to respond to you anymore, I have a job and I attend university, so no time for responding to you regurgitated babble.
FLAC is up among the top (and its the best open source one when i last checked)
there were only 2-3 that could do better and it was by 5%or s on some songs only!
5% isn't much(50 megs per gb of music)
Also FALC is goo because its good good error checking, good tags (vorbris tags!) and can stream. There is probley alot of overhead that causes it to compress less, but have more features and strengths.
well divx came about i think not because of how good it was at the time, but beacuse the video pirates used it, and they forced everyone else to (they do whatever gets it the smallest and best qual regardless of the tools used... well at least the good ones do)
xvid is starting to appear to in some recent rips my friend has.
Thou i will NEVER get why all msuci videos are just mpeg... gess 40-60megs is accpetable
Thats not the point, i use FLAC for a couple reasons: 1) lossless so its an exact COPY. 2) (important one!) i can reencode it to ANY format i want, as many times as i like. SO i can always keep up with whatever my portable want, my CD player wants, what ever format a friend wants, ect.
For fucks sake. I'm not arguing the morality of it(thou i'll get to that later since you mentioned it up), I'm trying to get it into your thick little head that ITS NOT STEALING! The law, the dictionary, judges, AND ALOT OF OTHER PEOPLE all agree on this fact. its NOT saying its good, moral or anything, just that STEALING ISN"T THE PROPER TEARM BECAUSE ITS NOT. Stealing is depriving somebody of something. Digital copying isn't!! Copyright infringement is using a artists work in a way they don't want it to be contrary to their choices, witch includes LISTENING TO MUSIC WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT!
If you write a paper, and i copy the text and hand that in did a STEAL you paper? NO! If you write a song and i make my own version of it did i STEAL it NO! If i put on a show with movies, and music in a "public performance" did my audience just STEAL the music because they don't own it?!? NO! That would just be silly, kind of like saying downloading it is! Its breaking copyright law (and probably some other ones to) If i take a CD, money or SOMETHING PHYSICAL from SOMEBODY, did i STEAL? YES!
And about the morality of it: People still buy CDs, people who download music still buy CDs. I buy CDS (although few because P2P allows me to find out witch ones SUCK, as i won't buy a CD for only 1 or 2 bloody songs). And in the end sales go up as more people find out about more bands. (indy bands who donâ(TM)t have the RIAA spending $$$$$ on advertising!) ON THE WHOAL PEOPLE DO WHAT IS RIGHT! Sure there are people that download everything and never buy, but so what?? its free advertising! they tell their friends, maybe even go see a concert! Witch makes the artist MORE money in the end. And then you have people who just buy tons of CDs, so it evens out.
P2P is GOOD for artists! BAD for the RIAA! The RIAA hates it because they can no longer control the dist, or whoâ(TM)s popular and who makes it big and who doesn't. P2P and the internet are allowing MORE artists to share their work and dist it. Many artists aren't even in it for the money!! And their music is usually the best. The ones who SUCK and the artists use computers to fix up their music and advertise the hell outta them DON"T DESERVE THE MONEY! Its people like them that suck up the money, good music DOESN"T NEED 1000000000s of dollars and time to record! A good band whose GOOD an play because they love to get it done fast and easy. Its the hard ones that take forever, and have to work at it because THEY SUCK. Want an example? go read the mixerman's diaries.
P2P and the internet are the best things for artists, EVER! it means eventually making millions because you are lucky enough to get into the biz won't happen anymore, and many more artists will be out there due to the low cost of producing music (YOU yes YOU can make your own music with 10,000$ of equipment!), all making a comfortable living like everyone else.
Sure P2P is beraking the law, but so what? much MUCH more money is lost to the pirates who press legit looking DVDs and CDs and sell them as the real thing. THAT is what should be stopped. Not people downloading stuff that in the end only benifits true aritsts, if not the huge corp that owns them.
And if even NO ONE PAID FOR A SINGLE CD THEY STILL OWULD MAKE MONEY, The would make their liveing off of concerts (i'd like to see someone download that experiance, not now but maybe someday!), sponserships, apperances, and the like. I mean COME ON, P2P isn't killing music. FAR FAR FROM IT.
and ps: that is your proactive makes NO sense, learn English if your goanna try and argue a stupid point.
The word is PREROGATIVE! you fool. ie "Its your PREROGATIVE!"
Or how about the people who have cars that produce less emmisions (like a compact, or a 2 seater) then a SUV or some other crappy huge truck that the driver probabley really doesn't need.
i mean if i'm driveing a 2 seater and i produce less emissions then a SUV why shouldn't I get my own lane??? I'm saveing the enviroment!
I think they just don't want the amsses to have access to this, i mean look at IRC, tis always been there, and always will. They dont' seem to even give adamn abotu the copying going on there...
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See the problem hre is alot of people are... ummm... stupid, dunmb, clueless, or whatever and just wouldn't get the questions, and them would copmlain, or sue just like the blind poeple are.
And with the letters its probley alot less then the idots you'd have with that system. Also you might get poeple claiming racial discrimination (this is america here) bceause they never heard a "knock knock" joke, or read alice in wonderland, or follow baseball.
You ever notice the absolutely stupid directions on some things? They are there for a reason (and not just liability).
You have way to much faith in poeples intelligance.
even with "- What's your name spelled backwards?" you'd have problems.
Well the lawyers are at it all websites should sue any blind/lynx visitors under the DMCA for circumventing ads and preventing the website from generatieng any revenue.
(weeee my first bad joke!)
BECAUSE computers can just take the WAV and covert it to text pretty well nowadays. If you've seen the images they are complaining about they are all lines out to prevent OCR at that.
I was in downtown vancouver (BC canada) today and i do belive i didn't hear a single one of those anoying things, Thank God they got rid of em (where i was at least)
Helping out disabled people is good and all, but when the "help" starts annoying/hindering the majority of the population who isn't blind its not worth it.
Hell couldn't a blind person just ASK A FRIEND to create the account??? You only have to do it once. For gods sake, you americans and your lawyers make me bloody sick.
How do the new soundblaster cards stand up quality wise? (namely a soundblaster audigy)?
Good? decent? horrible?
You know what, if they STOPED doing that and didn't tell anyone i'm sure they wouldn't lose anymore money, and would PROFIT more because they are no longer spending these billions on preventing cable theft.
People either steal or don't steal it, and there aren't many who are close to the line and get cable just beause they might get caught stealing it.
What does office XP use if not MDI? And whats so good about it?
(i've never used it)
ACtauly the BEST way to deal with druges is make them leagal and tax the hell out of them (cigs and alchy anyone?)
and then use that tax money to compabt the problem with ads, teaching kids at a young age, and dealing with the health problems.
Also with legal drugs you remove overdoses, bad trips, contaminated drugs, shared needles, gangs, alot of organized crime, over filled jails, smugglers, the millions of $$$$s that go toward a drugwar that isn't going to be won, less poeple killed (cops and dealers alike) and the ability to keep very bad drugs outlawed, and keep they useage down to next to nothing as most poeople will just settle with the legal drugs that arn't so bad.
anywya i'm way of topic here (other then war on P2P is like war on drugs, theres no way to win)
Or how about use a format thats not MP3?
flac? or ogg?
Just watch the judge be like "huh? i though P2P was all Mp3, ogg ain't MP3 so case dismissed!" lol
Then you'd just have other things like encryption and all sorts of shit to doge the RIAA inspectors, or hell we'd all just go back to IRC!
He said Fastest 64bit PC, not faster PC, witch does make a diffrence as can you call a computer with a server/workstation class CPU in it a PC?
When i first read that i didn't belive the "fastest PC stuff" But i then noticed it said fastest 64bit PC witch could be true when you don't include all server/workstation 64 bit CPUs in that catagory.
wow 7 misspelled(thereâ(TM)s no hyphen) words in 690, I must be a REALLY bad speller, (and the first is a obvious typo) At least i used the right words. If your going to nitpick on spelling, why didn't you go after my punctuation!? i had missing periods, caps, and all sorts of other bad abbreviations (indy, corp).
See i wasn't pointing out your bad spelling, i was pointing how you just didn't know the proper word. unless you mean to tell me somehow you spelled prerogative, proactive witch i highly doubt. Learn English, spelling is secondary to actually knowing what word means what and how to form cohesive sentences that make sense.
And because you just ignored everything else i said, and dropped to the level you did, you just don't have anything else to say on this topic because your only argument was "Well the RIAA says its theft and bad so it must be! Its not the right/moral thing to do so it MUST be bad!" and just didn't take the time to think about whatâ(TM)s actual happening and just looked at the surface of the issue and don't want to admit it. Its people like you who don't take the time to look at the facts, and just take things at face value, that cause many of this worlds problems.
Since you showed no signs of thinking, just regurgitating stuff you read/heard (no surprise there, thatâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s taught in high schools these days) Iâ(TM)m not going to respond to you anymore, I have a job and I attend university, so no time for responding to you regurgitated babble.
opps:
simpley never have to rerip again like me
should be:
if you just simpley want to have to rerip again like me
get a cheap windows box (or even laptop) and stick it in a corner somewehere headless and use VNC=P
Its for archiveing, and haveing a source file you can treat as if it was a WAV from the mic/CD/whatever.
For just listening yea, its a bit much, but if you archive/want to use many codecs
or simpley never have to rerip again like me and have space a plenty, then its a worthwhile thing to do.
I think the only thing rar can do that FLAC can't is do error recovery (IF you have that option turned on when you compresses, but it does add %%)
FLAC is up among the top (and its the best open source one when i last checked)
there were only 2-3 that could do better and it was by 5%or s on some songs only!
5% isn't much(50 megs per gb of music)
Also FALC is goo because its good good error checking, good tags (vorbris tags!) and can stream. There is probley alot of overhead that causes it to compress less, but have more features and strengths.
well divx came about i think not because of how good it was at the time, but beacuse the video pirates used it, and they forced everyone else to (they do whatever gets it the smallest and best qual regardless of the tools used... well at least the good ones do)
xvid is starting to appear to in some recent rips my friend has.
Thou i will NEVER get why all msuci videos are just mpeg... gess 40-60megs is accpetable
I didn't get that (mozilla 1.4 RC2, win2K)
maybe its linux, i'll try it on my linux box when i get home
Thats not the point, i use FLAC for a couple reasons:
1) lossless so its an exact COPY.
2) (important one!) i can reencode it to ANY format i want, as many times as i like. SO i can always keep up with whatever my portable want, my CD player wants, what ever format a friend wants, ect.
HD space is cheap anyways=P
You seem to know what your talking about:)
so quick question! i use EAC and FLAC, secure mode, no C2, Drive caches audio,
but i also uncheck Accurate Stream, should i check it for better quality? Or would it just speed up the extraction, and nothing else?
And anyreason to chekc/uncheck it besides extraction speed?
Thanks in advance!
For fucks sake. I'm not arguing the morality of it(thou i'll get to that later since you mentioned it up), I'm trying to get it into your thick little head that ITS NOT STEALING! The law, the dictionary, judges, AND ALOT OF OTHER PEOPLE all agree on this fact. its NOT saying its good, moral or anything, just that STEALING ISN"T THE PROPER TEARM BECAUSE ITS NOT. Stealing is depriving somebody of something. Digital copying isn't!! Copyright infringement is using a artists work in a way they don't want it to be contrary to their choices, witch includes LISTENING TO MUSIC WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT!
If you write a paper, and i copy the text and hand that in did a STEAL you paper? NO!
If you write a song and i make my own version of it did i STEAL it NO!
If i put on a show with movies, and music in a "public performance" did my audience just STEAL the music because they don't own it?!? NO! That would just be silly, kind of like saying downloading it is! Its breaking copyright law (and probably some other ones to)
If i take a CD, money or SOMETHING PHYSICAL from SOMEBODY, did i STEAL? YES!
And about the morality of it:
People still buy CDs, people who download music still buy CDs. I buy CDS (although few because P2P allows me to find out witch ones SUCK, as i won't buy a CD for only 1 or 2 bloody songs). And in the end sales go up as more people find out about more bands. (indy bands who donâ(TM)t have the RIAA spending $$$$$ on advertising!) ON THE WHOAL PEOPLE DO WHAT IS RIGHT! Sure there are people that download everything and never buy, but so what?? its free advertising! they tell their friends, maybe even go see a concert! Witch makes the artist MORE money in the end. And then you have people who just buy tons of CDs, so it evens out.
P2P is GOOD for artists! BAD for the RIAA! The RIAA hates it because they can no longer control the dist, or whoâ(TM)s popular and who makes it big and who doesn't. P2P and the internet are allowing MORE artists to share their work and dist it. Many artists aren't even in it for the money!! And their music is usually the best. The ones who SUCK and the artists use computers to fix up their music and advertise the hell outta them DON"T DESERVE THE MONEY! Its people like them that suck up the money, good music DOESN"T NEED 1000000000s of dollars and time to record! A good band whose GOOD an play because they love to get it done fast and easy. Its the hard ones that take forever, and have to work at it because THEY SUCK. Want an example? go read the mixerman's diaries.
P2P and the internet are the best things for artists, EVER! it means eventually making millions because you are lucky enough to get into the biz won't happen anymore, and many more artists will be out there due to the low cost of producing music (YOU yes YOU can make your own music with 10,000$ of equipment!), all making a comfortable living like everyone else.
Sure P2P is beraking the law, but so what? much MUCH more money is lost to the pirates who press legit looking DVDs and CDs and sell them as the real thing. THAT is what should be stopped. Not people downloading stuff that in the end only benifits true aritsts, if not the huge corp that owns them.
And if even NO ONE PAID FOR A SINGLE CD THEY STILL OWULD MAKE MONEY, The would make their liveing off of concerts (i'd like to see someone download that experiance, not now but maybe someday!), sponserships, apperances, and the like. I mean COME ON, P2P isn't killing music. FAR FAR FROM IT.
and ps:
that is your proactive makes NO sense, learn English if your goanna try and argue a stupid point.
The word is PREROGATIVE! you fool. ie "Its your PREROGATIVE!"
Or how about the people who have cars that produce less emmisions (like a compact, or a 2 seater) then a SUV or some other crappy huge truck that the driver probabley really doesn't need.
i mean if i'm driveing a 2 seater and i produce less emissions then a SUV why shouldn't I get my own lane??? I'm saveing the enviroment!
I think they just don't want the amsses to have access to this, i mean look at IRC, tis always been there, and always will. They dont' seem to even give adamn abotu the copying going on there...