The reason for me is obvious. I rip all my cd's to FLAC for archival purposes. If the player doesn't support FLAC I either have to transcode as I transfer, which slows the process down. Or I have to have another directory that contains everything in MP3 as well. It would just be simpler for me if the device played FLAC.
Do you really think biologists and psychologysts have any idea of what's going on? They have no idea why animal brains work the way they do. They just treat things they don't understand as a black box to be ignored. All biology is really just chemistry, and all chemistry is just physics.
I don't understand why apple doesn't want reals stuff. I don't see how it would hurt them if iTunes and iPods could play music from the Real Store. And iTunes could connect rhapsody.
We shouldn't be stuck with 10 different music stores that only allow you to play the music on player X. Imagine if Tower CD's only played on Tower players, but Virgin CD's only played on Virgin players. That's total insanity, but that's the situation we are looking at here. IMHO Real is the only one trying to do something about it. It may not be for the right reason (they're doing it for their bottom line, not to help the consumer), but I'd rather have someone doing the right thing for the wrong reason than vice versa.
But you said he was going to charge them. No where did he say that. In fact, you can't logically interpet that from anything he said. My interpatation is logical based on his answers.
That's not what he said at all. He clearly stated that if QuickTime did the same thing as real did, he would have no problem with it. He then stated he would like to cross-license their DRM with apple. In other words, neither of them pay both of them get the other's DRM.
Read the fucking answer before you start crying hypocrite.
So what you're saying is that as long as the US exists, we're winning the war on terror? I for one don't want the US turning into Israel. I don't want any other place turning into Israel.
I thought all european wines were named after the region they were grown in: Burgandy, Bordeaux, Champagne, etc? In america we name the wines after the dominant grape in the mixture: Reisling, Merlot, Chardony, Syrah etc. Personally, I prefer the US naming convention.
I wouldn't call it all over alternative radio. It got a fair amount of play, but nothing major. And I don't really know if you can stop radio stations from playing your song.
I'm not saying radiohead is any different than any other mainstream act. What I am saying is, that they have the right to sell their music however they want. If they think it should only be sold via a package, that is their right.
Considering Radiohead barely makes videos anymore, and I don't hear them much on the radio anymore, I think your arguement is slightly flawed. However, if an artist is of the opinion that their album is a complete work of art, including the art, liner notes, and packaging; I can see why they might not want to be included.
Well it's "good" DRM. You can burn the song to CD. You can play it on 3 computers. You can play it on an infinite number of iPods. That's the good end of DRM if you ask me.
Where does it say that the MS Music store won't have all these features as well?
An besdies, hymn will make those songs DRM free (without losing ANY quality). Good deal, eh.
If they can do it to apple's songs, how long before someone does it to the WMA files?
The problem was not the word Berliner, it was the fact that he used the article "ein." If I wanted to refer to myself as a citizen of Hamburg; I would say, "Ich bin Hamburger." However if I wanted to refer to myself as a steak made of ground beef; I would say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger."
What you're doing is much closer to the south beach diet; which I, even as a vegetarian, approve of. The atkins diet simply has too much saturated fat in it to be healthy. That's the one thing the low fat diets have gotten right. Saturated fats are bad. However, most people replaced them with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil which is probably worse.
I believe if partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup where outlawed today, much of our problems with obesity would slowly dissapear.
They can't sell un DRMed files. The record companies won't let them. They approached apple about licensing FairPlay so that their DRM would be compatible with the iPod. Apple blew them off. So they figured out how to make their DRM compatible with most players in existence. If I was going to buy music from any online source (i'm not), it would be from Real now. With harmony I can play their files on the mp3 players I have now, and any I plan to buy. That's good for me, no?
The A4 and the Passat are indeed on the same chasis. There are 3 basic VW audi platforms in the US. The golf platform (jetta, golf, Bug, TT, A3), the a4 platform (passat, a4, a6), and the A8 platform. I should know, I own an a4. I tend to think that the cars do work quite well without overlapping. You go from Jetta->A4->Passat->A6. Of course this idea overlap is what keeps the A3 out of the US, and it's the care I really want.
and the firebird had entirely different engines from the camaro...given the camaro was the more powerful of the bunch, but the firebird was the looker
Maybe in the 60's and early 70's this was the case. But all through the 80's and 90's the firebirds and camaros were mechanically identical. At various times it included the 2.8L V6, 3.0L V6, 3.4L V6, 3.8L V6, 5.0L V8, and 5.7L V8. You could always buy the two cars in slightly different tunes, but there almost always was an equivalent in the other.
a $3000 Armani suit is going to be tailored to fit you properly. They don't just put you in the thing straight off the rack. It looks bad for them if anyone sees a person wearing an ill-fitting Armani suit.
However, with your size, you should consider getting a suit made. It will fit you better than anything else you can buy and will most likely be of higher quality.
It's not all branding. Sometimes is it, sometimes it isn't. I've found gap clothes to be horrible and I avoid them at all costs. They are always of shody quality and have a life of less than 6 months (although the jeans will sometimes get stretched to 12-18 as I don't wear/wash them often). However some high end brands are simply better. I prefer to by Diesel or Ben Sherman jeans whenever I can. They are 1.5-2x as much as a pair of jeans from the Gap (which is why I shop at bluefly and/or look for sales), however I've never had them wear out. My oldest pair is 3+ years old and still look perfect. What I've come to realize is that the brand isn't as important as the place it was manufactured. I've had good and bad luck with clothes of most brands, but my good luck has almost always come when the item was made in italy or elsewhere in europe (I don't really see any clothes made in the USA anymore). The bad luck has almost exclusively come from items made in Asia (outside of Japan).
Something similar occurs with cars. Many people I know with VW's have had problems with theirs. All of these people have cars made in Brazil or Mexico. I drive an Audi, which uses many of the same parts, but was made in Germany. So far (nearly 5 years) it's been pretty flawless.
Do tell me how much an iPod costs in Australia? You can't simply say $690 AU = $490 US > cost of iPod. The iPod appears to cost about $650 AU. So I'd say the iRiver player is probably about the same cost. Who's to say he didn't include sales tax in the price he listed.
Actually CBS (or ABC, I can't remember) created the show calling it the Swap. Fox heard about it and rushed to put the identical show out a few weeks before.
I suggest going to bars. Most of the bars in seattle have the NFL sunday ticket, so you can go every week and watch the games. It's probably actually cheaper in the long run to go have lunch and a beer each week than to buy the package.
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The reason for me is obvious. I rip all my cd's to FLAC for archival purposes. If the player doesn't support FLAC I either have to transcode as I transfer, which slows the process down. Or I have to have another directory that contains everything in MP3 as well. It would just be simpler for me if the device played FLAC.
Do you really think biologists and psychologysts have any idea of what's going on? They have no idea why animal brains work the way they do. They just treat things they don't understand as a black box to be ignored. All biology is really just chemistry, and all chemistry is just physics.
I don't understand why apple doesn't want reals stuff. I don't see how it would hurt them if iTunes and iPods could play music from the Real Store. And iTunes could connect rhapsody.
We shouldn't be stuck with 10 different music stores that only allow you to play the music on player X. Imagine if Tower CD's only played on Tower players, but Virgin CD's only played on Virgin players. That's total insanity, but that's the situation we are looking at here. IMHO Real is the only one trying to do something about it. It may not be for the right reason (they're doing it for their bottom line, not to help the consumer), but I'd rather have someone doing the right thing for the wrong reason than vice versa.
But you said he was going to charge them. No where did he say that. In fact, you can't logically interpet that from anything he said. My interpatation is logical based on his answers.
That's not what he said at all. He clearly stated that if QuickTime did the same thing as real did, he would have no problem with it. He then stated he would like to cross-license their DRM with apple. In other words, neither of them pay both of them get the other's DRM.
Read the fucking answer before you start crying hypocrite.
So what you're saying is that as long as the US exists, we're winning the war on terror? I for one don't want the US turning into Israel. I don't want any other place turning into Israel.
I thought all european wines were named after the region they were grown in: Burgandy, Bordeaux, Champagne, etc? In america we name the wines after the dominant grape in the mixture: Reisling, Merlot, Chardony, Syrah etc. Personally, I prefer the US naming convention.
In the mean time, slap them down with increasing force until they stop
That's worked real well for israel hasn't it?
I wouldn't call it all over alternative radio. It got a fair amount of play, but nothing major. And I don't really know if you can stop radio stations from playing your song.
I'm not saying radiohead is any different than any other mainstream act. What I am saying is, that they have the right to sell their music however they want. If they think it should only be sold via a package, that is their right.
Considering Radiohead barely makes videos anymore, and I don't hear them much on the radio anymore, I think your arguement is slightly flawed. However, if an artist is of the opinion that their album is a complete work of art, including the art, liner notes, and packaging; I can see why they might not want to be included.
Well it's "good" DRM. You can burn the song to CD. You can play it on 3 computers. You can play it on an infinite number of iPods. That's the good end of DRM if you ask me.
Where does it say that the MS Music store won't have all these features as well?
An besdies, hymn will make those songs DRM free (without losing ANY quality). Good deal, eh.
If they can do it to apple's songs, how long before someone does it to the WMA files?
That is true... however, the legality of that is under question.
The problem was not the word Berliner, it was the fact that he used the article "ein." If I wanted to refer to myself as a citizen of Hamburg; I would say, "Ich bin Hamburger." However if I wanted to refer to myself as a steak made of ground beef; I would say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger."
What you're doing is much closer to the south beach diet; which I, even as a vegetarian, approve of. The atkins diet simply has too much saturated fat in it to be healthy. That's the one thing the low fat diets have gotten right. Saturated fats are bad. However, most people replaced them with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil which is probably worse.
I believe if partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup where outlawed today, much of our problems with obesity would slowly dissapear.
But they aren't really disposable. They are recycled.
They can't sell un DRMed files. The record companies won't let them. They approached apple about licensing FairPlay so that their DRM would be compatible with the iPod. Apple blew them off. So they figured out how to make their DRM compatible with most players in existence. If I was going to buy music from any online source (i'm not), it would be from Real now. With harmony I can play their files on the mp3 players I have now, and any I plan to buy. That's good for me, no?
The A4 and the Passat are indeed on the same chasis. There are 3 basic VW audi platforms in the US. The golf platform (jetta, golf, Bug, TT, A3), the a4 platform (passat, a4, a6), and the A8 platform. I should know, I own an a4. I tend to think that the cars do work quite well without overlapping. You go from Jetta->A4->Passat->A6. Of course this idea overlap is what keeps the A3 out of the US, and it's the care I really want.
and the firebird had entirely different engines from the camaro...given the camaro was the more powerful of the bunch, but the firebird was the looker
Maybe in the 60's and early 70's this was the case. But all through the 80's and 90's the firebirds and camaros were mechanically identical. At various times it included the 2.8L V6, 3.0L V6, 3.4L V6, 3.8L V6, 5.0L V8, and 5.7L V8. You could always buy the two cars in slightly different tunes, but there almost always was an equivalent in the other.
a $3000 Armani suit is going to be tailored to fit you properly. They don't just put you in the thing straight off the rack. It looks bad for them if anyone sees a person wearing an ill-fitting Armani suit.
However, with your size, you should consider getting a suit made. It will fit you better than anything else you can buy and will most likely be of higher quality.
It's not all branding. Sometimes is it, sometimes it isn't. I've found gap clothes to be horrible and I avoid them at all costs. They are always of shody quality and have a life of less than 6 months (although the jeans will sometimes get stretched to 12-18 as I don't wear/wash them often). However some high end brands are simply better. I prefer to by Diesel or Ben Sherman jeans whenever I can. They are 1.5-2x as much as a pair of jeans from the Gap (which is why I shop at bluefly and/or look for sales), however I've never had them wear out. My oldest pair is 3+ years old and still look perfect. What I've come to realize is that the brand isn't as important as the place it was manufactured. I've had good and bad luck with clothes of most brands, but my good luck has almost always come when the item was made in italy or elsewhere in europe (I don't really see any clothes made in the USA anymore). The bad luck has almost exclusively come from items made in Asia (outside of Japan).
Something similar occurs with cars. Many people I know with VW's have had problems with theirs. All of these people have cars made in Brazil or Mexico. I drive an Audi, which uses many of the same parts, but was made in Germany. So far (nearly 5 years) it's been pretty flawless.
Do tell me how much an iPod costs in Australia? You can't simply say $690 AU = $490 US > cost of iPod. The iPod appears to cost about $650 AU. So I'd say the iRiver player is probably about the same cost. Who's to say he didn't include sales tax in the price he listed.
Actually CBS (or ABC, I can't remember) created the show calling it the Swap. Fox heard about it and rushed to put the identical show out a few weeks before.
I suggest going to bars. Most of the bars in seattle have the NFL sunday ticket, so you can go every week and watch the games. It's probably actually cheaper in the long run to go have lunch and a beer each week than to buy the package.
I think you'll find that statistically speaking poor people commit the most crimes and it just so happens that most minorities are also poor.
What about milk carton boat derbies?