does he know that a large majority of geeks/developers/tech people are laughing at him even more now? It always seems that they are one of the most poorly-named companies, from the way they act. Death of Bluetooth? OS X on Intel? A Ferrari laptop? It seems like Intel just doesn't ever get the intel they need.
Thankfully, none of my apps require special hardware (other than the built-in CoreAudio) so they should run fine. Is it zero-configuration, or will I have to mess with it to get internal sound support?
One of my friends runs a music studio and is constantly fighting with turning off ACPI on Win 2000. It causes all sorts of issues with our sound cards (Dual Delta 1010s), SCSI card, and IDE controller card. Having to worry about IRQs and ACPI has got to disappear. Are IRQs treated the same under Linux? I would hope that Linux would not give the same kind of issues, the way all Mac OSs don't. I had never heard of an IRQ until we started having these problems at the studio. No wonder most studios are all Mac, we don't have the time to fsck around with this crap. No BIOS, etc.. It's better that way, it seems.
The last paragraph of the article talks about running a program called Mac-On-Linux, which lets you run Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X while running Linux. I have heard about this before, but does it actually work? There is no way that I would give up the number of apps that I use every day in Mac OS X to run Linux. If Reason, Photoshop, Director, and HTML Face X run under MOL I'll be happy to try a Linux distribution.
Nothing is private any more. I wholly agree. But:
Anyone else notice that the site is msnbc.msn.com? Isn't Microsoft trying to develop a google competitor?
Am I just another cynical bastard?
No, I thought the same as soon as I saw the story. MS has hired writers before to pose as other writers or regular people, so the 'news' we see on MSN will always be biased towards them in some way. It's just the way they do things.
No better than an Audio CD is not at the bottom of the audio quality food chain. MP3s would be in that place, and there are already a plethora of devices that play MP3s. The point is that, for the vast majority of music listeners, CD quality is the best they're going to get, unless they invest in a whole new system and replace their entire music library. That doesn't sound very tempting to most listeners.
Again, can you back up DVD-A or SACD? I would really like to know, and would rather have 'a fucking moron' tell me (especially in such an entertaining way!) than take the time to google it. If not, it's just another attempt for the industry to make more money while not offering much in return, as well as trying to lock-in more customers with their crap formats.
Again, if you don't like the current state of the music industry, where are you getting the indie bands to listen to on your heavenly system?
Yes, 44/16 is far below 192/24. Hopefully there will be a portable music player that lets you listen to uncompressed 192/24 audio, but really, I doubt it will happen anytime soon. The iPod plays music _right now_ at the highest resolution available to the majority of the market.
Heh, so now you say you own an iPod? After all those cracks about battery life and such? Nice turnaround.
It would be great if you would answer the questions I posed.. would you mind? Or will the answers just shoot everything you've blathered on about right out the window?
hehe oh wow.. I just went to your site.. haha without warning, as you click to enter, it starts loading an 80MB demo reel movie! Now _that's_ web design. Guess you're in charge of the site.
you don't get it, do you.. look at the size of the iPod. It's convenient, powerful, high-capacity, and plays uncompressed audio files.
I really wish I had one, but that fact is.. you bought into a new technology.. who's going to choose between DVD-A and SACD? Consumers? They don't know the difference. The thing is, those formats don't offer anything tangible to the consumer. Sure, they sound a lot better to you and I, but that's not reason enough for the public to spend more money on the discs, a player, and a surround-sound system. The value really isn't there. It's not the same as VHS -> DVD, because so much more is offered on an average DVD than ever could be on VHS. On DVD-A and SACD, however, there's really nothing they can do to make it seem like an obviously attractive technology.. they're already doing what they can (bonus DVDs, live tracks, etc.) and not seeing any return.
You can keep your forums. Us engineers will continue to make your surround-sound mixes and laugh at the people dumb enough to spend that kind of money on another degradable format. We do the best we can with what we're given, and get paid whether the music sells or not.
As far as ripping CDs to the ipod, you still don't get it.. it _is_ worth it to most musicians and engineers, and I don't know where you get the idea that it would be smarter to have a portable cd player. That's just plain thickheaded. You want to carry around 30-odd CDs? Of course not. Then don't bitch about those that can take the 30 seconds necessary to get perfect copies of their CDs on their iPods and never have to worry about them again. It really is worth it.. especially since the CDs won't be getting scratched, you don't have to change them, cart them around with you, etc.
The iPod is a _music_ player, it plays a number of audio formats. All the audiophiles I know that own one are very impressed by its combination of size, capacity, interface, and sound quality. I think you underestimate the importance of these things. It plays uncompressed audio files very well, I don't know where you get the idea that it's not meant to do that.
Buy a CD, bring it home, it's on the iPod, the CD's in its case, safely. How can you back up these new formats? Or can you even back them up? Hmm.. I'm guessing not, but please correct me if I'm in error. This is part of the problem with the new formats, people can't trust that they will have this album for number of years, since no record store will replace a scratched CD/DVD and they can't conceivably back them up themselves.
I see you agree that the current state of the music industry sucks. So how, pray tell, are you getting the good indie bands etc. on DVD-A and SACD? You're not, because they won't be putting their music on that format anytime soon.
From westword.com Originally published by Westword Jan 29, 2004 (C)2004 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mr. Spam Man Microsoft wants to shut him down. New York's attorney general wants to see him in court. But Scott Richter keeps thinking big. BY ALAN PRENDERGAST
John Johnston
Scott Richter
Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
Talking trash: Microsoft attorney Brad Smith (left) watches as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer vows to delete Scott Richter's profits.
Source: Brightmail Logistics and Operations Center
FWD: SCOTT, DON'T SUFFER BETWEEN PAYCHECKS! THINK BIG!
In Scott Richter's world, size matters.
Richter knows that Americans like things big. Bigger penis, bigger breasts. Big savings. Big chance to win big. Think big about the bigness people crave, and big profits could be yours.
Richter is a big fellow himself, 240 pounds or so packed on a 6' 1" frame. He used to be bigger, before he got into big-time weight loss. But these days, it's his business that'sreally big. His e-mail marketing company, OptInRealBig, controls a host of like-minded domain names, including SaveRealBig, RealBigCash, RealGreatGifts, RealBigHosting andLesbiansSizzle.com (lesbians, God knows, are big). At 32, Richter's already spent nearly two decades chasing the Next Big Thing -- and finding it, the past few years, in cyberspace.
Last April, as American forces marched into Baghdad, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks showed a group of reporters a mock-up of playing cards featuring the faces of Iraqi leaders sought for questioning. Right away, Richter knew this was going to be big, big, big.
The Pentagon had developed the cards as an intelligence tool, to be distributed to the troops. Richter saw them as the war souvenir the public had been waiting for. Within hours, his company was shooting out e-mails advertising the cards for sale -- more than 15 million e-mails, in fact. Richter moved 40,000 decks of the cards in a week, buying them for 89 cents each and selling them for $5.95. Yet at the time he started the blitz, he didn't have a single deck in stock. Nobody did.
"We sold them before we ever owned them," he recalls. "Wal-Mart would've taken three weeks to get them in. We knew we could find them, so we went to work."
Richter tells the story while bottle-feeding one of his five-month-old twin sons in the kitchen of his Westminster home. It's a clean, spacious, well-lit place, with a portrait of Marilyn Monroe in the foyer, three Rhodesian Ridgebacks cavorting on the back deck, and hockey trophies and a pair of giant flat-screen monitors towering over the desk in the den. It's the kind of house you'd expect a young, sober, hard-driving entrepreneur to inhabit with his young, budding family. It's also totally at odds with Richter's reputation among his enemies on the Internet, who regard him as one of the most notorious and "morally challenged" spammers in the world.
If you have an e-mail account and have ever been careless about the kind of information you scatter about while surfing the Web, chances are good that you've received mail from Richter. OptInRealBig boasts of having a list of 45 million e-mail addresses at its disposal, many with additional demographic or consumer-preference information. The company also e-mails to millions of other addresses provided by clients, who use Richter's services to hawk everything from diet pills and porn sites to vacation packages and Christmas toys. OptInRealBig sends out between 50 million and 250 million e-mails a day, generating close to $2 million a month in revenues.
According to the Spamhaus Project, a British-based organization dedicated to combating the expanding swamp of unsolicited e-mail, Richter's operation ranks as the third-largest source of spam on the Internet. "OptInRealBig.com and Richter's many aliases are 'block-on-sight' domains for most of the Internet's mail systems," states the group's profile of Richter. "Due to his
sorry, but the iPod is the only device which can play uncompressed, 44.1, 16 bit audio.
You want to carry around a discman? Fine, but most musicians and music lovers don't. I don't knwo where you get the idea that it is 'close' to CD-quality.. it _is_ CD-quality. Uncompressed AIFFs, that you can drag _directly_ from the CD to the iPod.
The ipod is what it is, a portable player of compressed music files. Huh? have you not been listening? Uncompressed AIFFs, hello?..and yes, 34 uncompressed CDs on a 20 GB iPod is still a ton better than carrying a CD wallet and discman. Seriously, even you should be able to see the logic in that.. you, who obviouly have bought in to the music industry's upgrade cycle.. you're buying DVD-A and SACD? There just isn't a demand for it.
DVD-A is useless to everyone except those that have a system that will play it. Consumers are happy with 128k MP3s and FM-quality broadcasts, what makes you think they want 'better' sounding? The few of us who have the equipment necessary will enjoy it, but it's not cost-effective.. The music industry better not try to push a new format, consumers are still pissed about replacing their tapes and records.
Putting some bonus content hasn't helped on Enhanced CDs or CDs with bonus DVDs, it's only increased the price of an audio CD.
Think first, then post.
If the CD is outdated, what makes you think we want another type of disc that suffers the same problems? The music industry should start looking at higher-quality downloads as a better solution.
The iPod? It's the only MP3 player on the market that also plays uncompressed AIFFs. It's that simple.. we export our songs to AIFF, why bother burning to CD?
Throughput hasn't been too big an issue, it's dealing with all the anomalies of the formats and simple things such as. MPEg vs. JPEG vs. PAL
Not to take anything away, but last I checked, PAL isn't a compression method, the way MPEG and JPEG are. More correctly, you should have wrote NTSC vs. PAL, although that shouldn't be an issue at all if you know what country you're making it for.
So, next time i get an interview i should mention my/. ID ?:-)
Probably not, but if you do, make sure to fix the link in your sig!
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Seeing a few other comments saying that they're seeing the Apache default install page, but I think they're actually seeing their own localhost, not set up yet.
Audiophile meaning you can play full quality (well, full Audio CD-quality, anyway) stereo AIFF files at up to 44 kHz / 16 bit. This is why the iPod is considered audiophile-quality. Happy?
No store is going to sell you audio files at 192/24.. although they will try in a few years. (as noone in their right mind wants DVD-A or SACD right now)
"But the last 4 years of being virus-free...[ ]... has made most Mac users pretty carefree, and careless"
Are you complaining about a flaw in the Mac OS, or are you complaining that Mac users can just get on with their work without having to worry about gaping security holes built into the operating system?
I'm curious because you make it sound like having an email client that executes arbitrary code with root level access is a good thing, or that its okay to build an insecure operating system because everyone MUST buy A/V software anyway.
I sincerely hope you aren't a programmer.
Mac users laugh at your pitiful attempts at making yourself feel better after your windows box got infected ONCE AGAIN.. Mac users will feel safe, carefree, and secure knowing that their OS is one of the most secure on the planet.
.. the bands that you mentioned might not have chosen the route that they did if they were given another option than to sign their songs away to some corporation. As a matter of fact, we (human race) would actually have some interesting songs in the public domain.
The fact that artists now have choice in offering their music around is a good thing. The fact that the RIAA/Clear Channel still controls all radio and traditional distribution is not.
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fix the iTunes Pepsi hack?
does he know that a large majority of geeks/developers/tech people are laughing at him even more now?
It always seems that they are one of the most poorly-named companies, from the way they act. Death of Bluetooth? OS X on Intel? A Ferrari laptop? It seems like Intel just doesn't ever get the intel they need.
No, clarifying that this isn't the first time it's been done.
Hmm.. angrily jumping on a Mac reference.. MS link set as homepage.. I know you, you're one of those MS fanboys! Boy, I feel sorry for you.
Thankfully, none of my apps require special hardware (other than the built-in CoreAudio) so they should run fine. Is it zero-configuration, or will I have to mess with it to get internal sound support?
One of my friends runs a music studio and is constantly fighting with turning off ACPI on Win 2000. It causes all sorts of issues with our sound cards (Dual Delta 1010s), SCSI card, and IDE controller card. Having to worry about IRQs and ACPI has got to disappear. Are IRQs treated the same under Linux? I would hope that Linux would not give the same kind of issues, the way all Mac OSs don't. I had never heard of an IRQ until we started having these problems at the studio. No wonder most studios are all Mac, we don't have the time to fsck around with this crap. No BIOS, etc.. It's better that way, it seems.
The last paragraph of the article talks about running a program called Mac-On-Linux, which lets you run Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X while running Linux. I have heard about this before, but does it actually work? There is no way that I would give up the number of apps that I use every day in Mac OS X to run Linux. If Reason, Photoshop, Director, and HTML Face X run under MOL I'll be happy to try a Linux distribution.
L. Ron Hubbard.
Nothing is private any more. I wholly agree. But: Anyone else notice that the site is msnbc.msn.com? Isn't Microsoft trying to develop a google competitor? Am I just another cynical bastard?
No, I thought the same as soon as I saw the story. MS has hired writers before to pose as other writers or regular people, so the 'news' we see on MSN will always be biased towards them in some way. It's just the way they do things.
No better than an Audio CD is not at the bottom of the audio quality food chain. MP3s would be in that place, and there are already a plethora of devices that play MP3s. The point is that, for the vast majority of music listeners, CD quality is the best they're going to get, unless they invest in a whole new system and replace their entire music library. That doesn't sound very tempting to most listeners.
Again, can you back up DVD-A or SACD? I would really like to know, and would rather have 'a fucking moron' tell me (especially in such an entertaining way!) than take the time to google it. If not, it's just another attempt for the industry to make more money while not offering much in return, as well as trying to lock-in more customers with their crap formats.
Again, if you don't like the current state of the music industry, where are you getting the indie bands to listen to on your heavenly system?
Yes, 44/16 is far below 192/24. Hopefully there will be a portable music player that lets you listen to uncompressed 192/24 audio, but really, I doubt it will happen anytime soon. The iPod plays music _right now_ at the highest resolution available to the majority of the market.
Heh, so now you say you own an iPod? After all those cracks about battery life and such? Nice turnaround.
It would be great if you would answer the questions I posed.. would you mind? Or will the answers just shoot everything you've blathered on about right out the window?
hehe oh wow.. I just went to your site.. haha without warning, as you click to enter, it starts loading an 80MB demo reel movie! Now _that's_ web design. Guess you're in charge of the site.
you don't get it, do you.. look at the size of the iPod. It's convenient, powerful, high-capacity, and plays uncompressed audio files.
I really wish I had one, but that fact is.. you bought into a new technology.. who's going to choose between DVD-A and SACD? Consumers? They don't know the difference. The thing is, those formats don't offer anything tangible to the consumer. Sure, they sound a lot better to you and I, but that's not reason enough for the public to spend more money on the discs, a player, and a surround-sound system. The value really isn't there. It's not the same as VHS -> DVD, because so much more is offered on an average DVD than ever could be on VHS. On DVD-A and SACD, however, there's really nothing they can do to make it seem like an obviously attractive technology.. they're already doing what they can (bonus DVDs, live tracks, etc.) and not seeing any return.
You can keep your forums. Us engineers will continue to make your surround-sound mixes and laugh at the people dumb enough to spend that kind of money on another degradable format. We do the best we can with what we're given, and get paid whether the music sells or not.
As far as ripping CDs to the ipod, you still don't get it.. it _is_ worth it to most musicians and engineers, and I don't know where you get the idea that it would be smarter to have a portable cd player. That's just plain thickheaded. You want to carry around 30-odd CDs? Of course not. Then don't bitch about those that can take the 30 seconds necessary to get perfect copies of their CDs on their iPods and never have to worry about them again. It really is worth it.. especially since the CDs won't be getting scratched, you don't have to change them, cart them around with you, etc.
The iPod is a _music_ player, it plays a number of audio formats. All the audiophiles I know that own one are very impressed by its combination of size, capacity, interface, and sound quality. I think you underestimate the importance of these things. It plays uncompressed audio files very well, I don't know where you get the idea that it's not meant to do that.
Buy a CD, bring it home, it's on the iPod, the CD's in its case, safely. How can you back up these new formats? Or can you even back them up? Hmm.. I'm guessing not, but please correct me if I'm in error. This is part of the problem with the new formats, people can't trust that they will have this album for number of years, since no record store will replace a scratched CD/DVD and they can't conceivably back them up themselves.
I see you agree that the current state of the music industry sucks. So how, pray tell, are you getting the good indie bands etc. on DVD-A and SACD? You're not, because they won't be putting their music on that format anytime soon.
Article Text:
From westword.com
Originally published by Westword Jan 29, 2004
(C)2004 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mr. Spam Man
Microsoft wants to shut him down. New York's attorney general wants to see him in court. But Scott Richter keeps thinking big.
BY ALAN PRENDERGAST
John Johnston
Scott Richter
Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
Talking trash: Microsoft attorney Brad Smith (left) watches as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer vows to delete Scott Richter's profits.
Source: Brightmail Logistics and Operations Center
FWD: SCOTT, DON'T SUFFER BETWEEN PAYCHECKS! THINK BIG!
In Scott Richter's world, size matters.
Richter knows that Americans like things big. Bigger penis, bigger breasts. Big savings. Big chance to win big. Think big about the bigness people crave, and big profits could be yours.
Richter is a big fellow himself, 240 pounds or so packed on a 6' 1" frame. He used to be bigger, before he got into big-time weight loss. But these days, it's his business that'sreally big. His e-mail marketing company, OptInRealBig, controls a host of like-minded domain names, including SaveRealBig, RealBigCash, RealGreatGifts, RealBigHosting andLesbiansSizzle.com (lesbians, God knows, are big). At 32, Richter's already spent nearly two decades chasing the Next Big Thing -- and finding it, the past few years, in cyberspace.
Last April, as American forces marched into Baghdad, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks showed a group of reporters a mock-up of playing cards featuring the faces of Iraqi leaders sought for questioning. Right away, Richter knew this was going to be big, big, big.
The Pentagon had developed the cards as an intelligence tool, to be distributed to the troops. Richter saw them as the war souvenir the public had been waiting for. Within hours, his company was shooting out e-mails advertising the cards for sale -- more than 15 million e-mails, in fact. Richter moved 40,000 decks of the cards in a week, buying them for 89 cents each and selling them for $5.95. Yet at the time he started the blitz, he didn't have a single deck in stock. Nobody did.
"We sold them before we ever owned them," he recalls. "Wal-Mart would've taken three weeks to get them in. We knew we could find them, so we went to work."
Richter tells the story while bottle-feeding one of his five-month-old twin sons in the kitchen of his Westminster home. It's a clean, spacious, well-lit place, with a portrait of Marilyn Monroe in the foyer, three Rhodesian Ridgebacks cavorting on the back deck, and hockey trophies and a pair of giant flat-screen monitors towering over the desk in the den. It's the kind of house you'd expect a young, sober, hard-driving entrepreneur to inhabit with his young, budding family. It's also totally at odds with Richter's reputation among his enemies on the Internet, who regard him as one of the most notorious and "morally challenged" spammers in the world.
If you have an e-mail account and have ever been careless about the kind of information you scatter about while surfing the Web, chances are good that you've received mail from Richter. OptInRealBig boasts of having a list of 45 million e-mail addresses at its disposal, many with additional demographic or consumer-preference information. The company also e-mails to millions of other addresses provided by clients, who use Richter's services to hawk everything from diet pills and porn sites to vacation packages and Christmas toys. OptInRealBig sends out between 50 million and 250 million e-mails a day, generating close to $2 million a month in revenues.
According to the Spamhaus Project, a British-based organization dedicated to combating the expanding swamp of unsolicited e-mail, Richter's operation ranks as the third-largest source of spam on the Internet. "OptInRealBig.com and Richter's many aliases are 'block-on-sight' domains for most of the Internet's mail systems," states the group's profile of Richter. "Due to his
sorry, but the iPod is the only device which can play uncompressed, 44.1, 16 bit audio.
..and yes, 34 uncompressed CDs on a 20 GB iPod is still a ton better than carrying a CD wallet and discman. Seriously, even you should be able to see the logic in that.. you, who obviouly have bought in to the music industry's upgrade cycle.. you're buying DVD-A and SACD? There just isn't a demand for it.
You want to carry around a discman? Fine, but most musicians and music lovers don't. I don't knwo where you get the idea that it is 'close' to CD-quality.. it _is_ CD-quality. Uncompressed AIFFs, that you can drag _directly_ from the CD to the iPod.
The ipod is what it is, a portable player of compressed music files.
Huh? have you not been listening? Uncompressed AIFFs, hello?
DVD-A is useless to everyone except those that have a system that will play it. Consumers are happy with 128k MP3s and FM-quality broadcasts, what makes you think they want 'better' sounding? The few of us who have the equipment necessary will enjoy it, but it's not cost-effective.. The music industry better not try to push a new format, consumers are still pissed about replacing their tapes and records.
Putting some bonus content hasn't helped on Enhanced CDs or CDs with bonus DVDs, it's only increased the price of an audio CD.
Think first, then post.
If the CD is outdated, what makes you think we want another type of disc that suffers the same problems? The music industry should start looking at higher-quality downloads as a better solution.
The iPod? It's the only MP3 player on the market that also plays uncompressed AIFFs. It's that simple.. we export our songs to AIFF, why bother burning to CD?
Throughput hasn't been too big an issue, it's dealing with all the anomalies of the formats and simple things such as. MPEg vs. JPEG vs. PAL
Not to take anything away, but last I checked, PAL isn't a compression method, the way MPEG and JPEG are. More correctly, you should have wrote NTSC vs. PAL, although that shouldn't be an issue at all if you know what country you're making it for.
So, next time i get an interview i should mention my /. ID ? :-)
Probably not, but if you do, make sure to fix the link in your sig!
Seeing a few other comments saying that they're seeing the Apache default install page, but I think they're actually seeing their own localhost, not set up yet.
Still happening, btw.
I just tried to go to sco.com, it redirected me to my own localhost server! wtf? I haven't set that up (redirects, etc.) , how does this happen?
Audiophile meaning you can play full quality (well, full Audio CD-quality, anyway) stereo AIFF files at up to 44 kHz / 16 bit. This is why the iPod is considered audiophile-quality. Happy?
No store is going to sell you audio files at 192/24.. although they will try in a few years. (as noone in their right mind wants DVD-A or SACD right now)
Nice call. That's the one.
Yes, lets make a point of reminding /. that OS X is virus-free. Great idea.
may as well do the AC a favour...
"But the last 4 years of being virus-free...[ ]... has made most Mac users pretty carefree, and careless" Are you complaining about a flaw in the Mac OS, or are you complaining that Mac users can just get on with their work without having to worry about gaping security holes built into the operating system?
I'm curious because you make it sound like having an email client that executes arbitrary code with root level access is a good thing, or that its okay to build an insecure operating system because everyone MUST buy A/V software anyway.
I sincerely hope you aren't a programmer.
Mac users laugh at your pitiful attempts at making yourself feel better after your windows box got infected ONCE AGAIN.. Mac users will feel safe, carefree, and secure knowing that their OS is one of the most secure on the planet.
Fair enough, the bills are quite expensive, does he get a piece of the DeCSS shirts on ThinkGeek? (only half joking)
If nothing else, he might raise more public interest and get donations that way.
.. the bands that you mentioned might not have chosen the route that they did if they were given another option than to sign their songs away to some corporation. As a matter of fact, we (human race) would actually have some interesting songs in the public domain.
The fact that artists now have choice in offering their music around is a good thing. The fact that the RIAA/Clear Channel still controls all radio and traditional distribution is not.
and let's not forget UHF..
"You want the red snapper, or what's behind door number two?"
So ARM7 is not as good as ARM9?
..so then how exactly did this get through?