A: Oh please. I got mine for $239. The best $239 I've ever spent. I never leave the apartment without it. I never carry my CD-wallet around. Amortize it over the next year if you want to. If you get a the 10GB $299 model that I got, that's $0.82 a day for a year, and after that it's yours to keep. And they laser-engrave now for free. That looks cool.
For that $299 you could also get a player from a different company that hold more music. Expensive is a realative term
And the suggestion here: CD-MP3 players! HA! I used two models of those and they are worthless. You have to burn mixes, just like regular CD mixes, but these mixes have to be about 20 hours long or you're wasting your time and CD. Sure they're under $50 now, because no one would pay more than that for 'em.
I love my slimX cd based player (i also have a nomad IIc flash player). The best thing about it is taking it on vacation. When I go on a vacation I take two mix CD-RW's. They take almost no time to make and that's more than enough music to get me by. I don't have a laptop, so that's the only music I'm going to have on the road. The reason I love it the most though is this. I often buy CD's when I'm taking a trip. It plays CD's. I don't have to wait until I get home to listen to them.
Give me another "Oh please." If you want to make hi-fi digital recordings with your portable MP3 player, that's like saying "I want to win a demolition derby in my new Toyota Prius Hybrid. The Prius is cool for a totally different application--driving efficiently on streets.
I actually do think this serves as a selling point to many people. If you buy a player that supports hi-fi recording, you don't need a computer. Plug in your cd player and record all your discs. Do the same thing with your turntable. At a friends house, want to record one of his cd's easy as pie.
Choice? Please. You do have a choice. Good quality, legal AAC's, or good quality, legal AAC's/MP3's from your own CDs. Or un-legit MP3's too. That's way good enough for me. WMA stores are inadequate. The DRM is stifling at many. Why mess with a good thing?
Please explain this too me. As far as I can tell most of the WMA stores have exactly the same DRM as the iTMS. The differences are only with the streaming music by subscription which iTMS does not offer!.
Actually, I would disagree. I think the rio karma and iRiver are the best mp3 players around as of right now. But if I had to buy one and only one, I'd probably pick a creative nomad zen, simply because it supports my notmad explorer, and the folks at notmad have assured me that soon the software will transcode between FLAC to vbr mp3 on the fly as I transfer files to the player. This will allow me to keep all my music stored in FLAC, but still allow compression on the player.
I guessing you have a technics? I have a Denon turn table. I decided on it because I don't really listen to records that often. I was looking at the Rega Planar and stuff in that class as I don't need the DJ features of the technics models.
Not necessairly. You see it is much cheaper to write and record one or two songs than it is to do a whole album. If the labels start seeing singles selling better than albums, they're going to push hard for their acts to record singles versus albums. It is getting easier to record on your own, but most music is still recorded with the backing of some one with money and if the people want singles, that's all that they're going to get.
I tend to shop at mom and pop and independent establishments. I have a beer store I got to. I shop at an indie record store. I buy clothes from boutiques whenever possible. I shop at whole foods. It really does help to shop around and find the places that give you service and stick with them.
You can still purchase almost every new release on vinyl. You just have to know where to shop. My problem with vinyl is that to actually make it sound better than a CD you have to spend alot of money. I paid about $200 for my turntable and phono stage. It doesn't sound as good as CD. I don't think it would be worth it for me to spend a lot more money to slightly imporve the sound of the CD. Now maybe when DVD-A or SACD take off.
Technically a CD is lossless. It uses sampling, but nyquist says that by using 44.1 KHz sampling frequency we can reproduce everything from 0 Hz to 22.05 KHz exactly. Now we are ignoring the frequencies above 22 KHz so I guess you can count that as loss, but it's not really called such. Now AAC, MP3, WMA, etc all throw out frequencies in the audible band, never to be heard from again. You can never reconstruct the same signal hence lossy.
Hopefully that remains the case. That's why I prefer shopping for clothes, food, beer, and music in a brick and mortar store. I like the interaction and I like the service I get. I don't need that kind of service to pick out CD-R's, but it sure does help with some other things.
I have to agree. The iTMS to me seems to support the hit single method to producing music. Record one hit song, sell millions of copies. Record one hit song sell millions of copies. Record one song that flop, bye bye... Find new artist to record hit song. This was the way music was until the Beatles came around in the mid 1960's this was accepted as the way to sell music. Now I don't know about you, but I much prefer a music industry that produces things like Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds to Britney Spears. I truly don't want the album to die, but I guess I'm in the minority... I'll just listen to all my old records.
The founding fathers only intended for rich white landowners to vote. They also assumed all of the voters would understand the issue and how the process works.
That isn't the case any more. Your average voter probably doesn't know the difference between a senator and a representative, doesn't know how the state legislature works, doesn't understand the electoral college, couldn't tell you what the majority whip does, or define the role of the speaker of the house. They couldn't name any of the cabinet postions. We don't let you drive a car without at least some knowledge. We have tests before you can do alot of things in this country, maybe voting should be one of them?
I do have some problems with it. First this is going to give a huge voting advantage to the rich. I would guess that a higher % of wealthy voters would pass this test versus poor voters. Even if you gave free classes to educate the voters a poor person is going to be less able to take the classes.
I think a real solution to the uneducated voter problem may simply to be better education in public schools. The government isn't that complex make it a required course for 5th graders, 8th graders, and 10th graders. Don't treat it like civics is treated now in schools. Make it a real class and a requirement to move on (you don't pass you repeat the grade). I think that would help more than anything else.
I'm sure that prozac and zoloft do help a few people who are mentally ill. But I refuse to believe that 10 million americans are actually truly mentally ill. Quite a few just need a fix.
Well, newton's equations give really good answers most of the time too. It could just be that if we find a theory of gravity that plays well with quantum mechanics it will agree with GR and newton on most things and explain all the other inconsitencies.
prozac and zoloft aren't for the mentally ill... they're for the average person who finds it more socially acceptable to take them then medicate with pot, alcohol, xtc, or another drug.
Actually it's pretty well understood that our theory of gravity is wrong. It doesn't agree with quantum mechanics. That's the big push in physics right now to find a 'quantum' theory of gravity, or identify the graviton particle.
Actually in the original drafts, Leia was not luke's sister. He had a sister living elsewhere in the galaxy that came to the rescue. The last 3 parts where her story. It was decided during the production of ESB to scrap the last 3 chapters and have Leia be the sister. Gary Kurtz (the producer of ANH and ESB) wasn't happy with this decision and is one of the reason he wasn't involved with ROTJ.
Then why do they fell so tacked on? ESB doesn't feel tacked on to me. The Godfather II doesn't feel tacked on. I can buy those as being planed, but until I get some proof, I won't believe the matrix was.
When star wars was made there was no such thing as a summer blockbuster movie. It kind of invented that. George has also released rough drafts and early versions of scripts that lend alot of credance to the idea that star wars was meant to be a 9 part story that was shortened to six by having luke defeat vader and the emperor in ROTJ instead of failing.
I didn't like LOTR because I didn't think it did the books justice.
I don't there is a person alive who can't understand star wars, I think the reason people don't like them is they don't understand that the movies are made for 8 year old boys. I think the same can be said of Harry Potter, it's made for kids. That's what makes me love those movies, they make me feel like a kid again.
I have a hard time believing this was designed to be a trilogy. Unlike star wars, I haven't seen any evidence of the larger story arc. I think the matrix was intended to be a stand alone movie, and a trilogy was created because the thing was so damn popular. Reloaded to me seemed tacked on.
Did I say it was the european's fault? It was horrible, but the european's weren't aware of this. They did comitt other atrocities, but this really can't count as one of them. However, it is an important fact to realize. In most US history classes kids are taught that there were about 1 million indians in north America at the time columbus landed. This is a lie, and they should at least know the truth.
Actually, I don't think 90% of the Indian population lived in south america and mesoamerica. There were thriving cultures in the mississipi valley and the american southwest (anasazi and mound builders). the europeans never saw them because the european diseases actuaclly traveled there and wiped them out before the europeans themseleves got there.
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A: Oh please. I got mine for $239. The best $239 I've ever spent. I never leave the apartment without it. I never carry my CD-wallet around. Amortize it over the next year if you want to. If you get a the 10GB $299 model that I got, that's $0.82 a day for a year, and after that it's yours to keep. And they laser-engrave now for free. That looks cool.
For that $299 you could also get a player from a different company that hold more music. Expensive is a realative term
And the suggestion here: CD-MP3 players! HA! I used two models of those and they are worthless. You have to burn mixes, just like regular CD mixes, but these mixes have to be about 20 hours long or you're wasting your time and CD. Sure they're under $50 now, because no one would pay more than that for 'em.
I love my slimX cd based player (i also have a nomad IIc flash player). The best thing about it is taking it on vacation. When I go on a vacation I take two mix CD-RW's. They take almost no time to make and that's more than enough music to get me by. I don't have a laptop, so that's the only music I'm going to have on the road. The reason I love it the most though is this. I often buy CD's when I'm taking a trip. It plays CD's. I don't have to wait until I get home to listen to them.
Give me another "Oh please." If you want to make hi-fi digital recordings with your portable MP3 player, that's like saying "I want to win a demolition derby in my new Toyota Prius Hybrid. The Prius is cool for a totally different application--driving efficiently on streets.
I actually do think this serves as a selling point to many people. If you buy a player that supports hi-fi recording, you don't need a computer. Plug in your cd player and record all your discs. Do the same thing with your turntable. At a friends house, want to record one of his cd's easy as pie.
Choice? Please. You do have a choice. Good quality, legal AAC's, or good quality, legal AAC's/MP3's from your own CDs. Or un-legit MP3's too. That's way good enough for me. WMA stores are inadequate. The DRM is stifling at many. Why mess with a good thing?
Please explain this too me. As far as I can tell most of the WMA stores have exactly the same DRM as the iTMS. The differences are only with the streaming music by subscription which iTMS does not offer!.
Actually, I would disagree. I think the rio karma and iRiver are the best mp3 players around as of right now. But if I had to buy one and only one, I'd probably pick a creative nomad zen, simply because it supports my notmad explorer, and the folks at notmad have assured me that soon the software will transcode between FLAC to vbr mp3 on the fly as I transfer files to the player. This will allow me to keep all my music stored in FLAC, but still allow compression on the player.
I guessing you have a technics? I have a Denon turn table. I decided on it because I don't really listen to records that often. I was looking at the Rega Planar and stuff in that class as I don't need the DJ features of the technics models.
Not necessairly. You see it is much cheaper to write and record one or two songs than it is to do a whole album. If the labels start seeing singles selling better than albums, they're going to push hard for their acts to record singles versus albums. It is getting easier to record on your own, but most music is still recorded with the backing of some one with money and if the people want singles, that's all that they're going to get.
I tend to shop at mom and pop and independent establishments. I have a beer store I got to. I shop at an indie record store. I buy clothes from boutiques whenever possible. I shop at whole foods. It really does help to shop around and find the places that give you service and stick with them.
You can still purchase almost every new release on vinyl. You just have to know where to shop. My problem with vinyl is that to actually make it sound better than a CD you have to spend alot of money. I paid about $200 for my turntable and phono stage. It doesn't sound as good as CD. I don't think it would be worth it for me to spend a lot more money to slightly imporve the sound of the CD. Now maybe when DVD-A or SACD take off.
Technically a CD is lossless. It uses sampling, but nyquist says that by using 44.1 KHz sampling frequency we can reproduce everything from 0 Hz to 22.05 KHz exactly. Now we are ignoring the frequencies above 22 KHz so I guess you can count that as loss, but it's not really called such. Now AAC, MP3, WMA, etc all throw out frequencies in the audible band, never to be heard from again. You can never reconstruct the same signal hence lossy.
Hopefully that remains the case. That's why I prefer shopping for clothes, food, beer, and music in a brick and mortar store. I like the interaction and I like the service I get. I don't need that kind of service to pick out CD-R's, but it sure does help with some other things.
I have to agree. The iTMS to me seems to support the hit single method to producing music. Record one hit song, sell millions of copies. Record one hit song sell millions of copies. Record one song that flop, bye bye... Find new artist to record hit song. This was the way music was until the Beatles came around in the mid 1960's this was accepted as the way to sell music. Now I don't know about you, but I much prefer a music industry that produces things like Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds to Britney Spears. I truly don't want the album to die, but I guess I'm in the minority... I'll just listen to all my old records.
The founding fathers only intended for rich white landowners to vote. They also assumed all of the voters would understand the issue and how the process works.
That isn't the case any more. Your average voter probably doesn't know the difference between a senator and a representative, doesn't know how the state legislature works, doesn't understand the electoral college, couldn't tell you what the majority whip does, or define the role of the speaker of the house. They couldn't name any of the cabinet postions. We don't let you drive a car without at least some knowledge. We have tests before you can do alot of things in this country, maybe voting should be one of them?
I do have some problems with it. First this is going to give a huge voting advantage to the rich. I would guess that a higher % of wealthy voters would pass this test versus poor voters. Even if you gave free classes to educate the voters a poor person is going to be less able to take the classes.
I think a real solution to the uneducated voter problem may simply to be better education in public schools. The government isn't that complex make it a required course for 5th graders, 8th graders, and 10th graders. Don't treat it like civics is treated now in schools. Make it a real class and a requirement to move on (you don't pass you repeat the grade). I think that would help more than anything else.
soylent green is made of people! people!
I'm sure that prozac and zoloft do help a few people who are mentally ill. But I refuse to believe that 10 million americans are actually truly mentally ill. Quite a few just need a fix.
that is true. But that doesn't mean you aren't able to travel distances faster than light by taking short cuts.
Well, newton's equations give really good answers most of the time too. It could just be that if we find a theory of gravity that plays well with quantum mechanics it will agree with GR and newton on most things and explain all the other inconsitencies.
But the homeless have the same effect. They spread disease, drain the health care infrastructure, waste police resources, etc.
prozac and zoloft aren't for the mentally ill... they're for the average person who finds it more socially acceptable to take them then medicate with pot, alcohol, xtc, or another drug.
Actually it's pretty well understood that our theory of gravity is wrong. It doesn't agree with quantum mechanics. That's the big push in physics right now to find a 'quantum' theory of gravity, or identify the graviton particle.
Actually in the original drafts, Leia was not luke's sister. He had a sister living elsewhere in the galaxy that came to the rescue. The last 3 parts where her story. It was decided during the production of ESB to scrap the last 3 chapters and have Leia be the sister. Gary Kurtz (the producer of ANH and ESB) wasn't happy with this decision and is one of the reason he wasn't involved with ROTJ.
Then why do they fell so tacked on? ESB doesn't feel tacked on to me. The Godfather II doesn't feel tacked on. I can buy those as being planed, but until I get some proof, I won't believe the matrix was.
When star wars was made there was no such thing as a summer blockbuster movie. It kind of invented that. George has also released rough drafts and early versions of scripts that lend alot of credance to the idea that star wars was meant to be a 9 part story that was shortened to six by having luke defeat vader and the emperor in ROTJ instead of failing.
I didn't like LOTR because I didn't think it did the books justice.
I don't there is a person alive who can't understand star wars, I think the reason people don't like them is they don't understand that the movies are made for 8 year old boys. I think the same can be said of Harry Potter, it's made for kids. That's what makes me love those movies, they make me feel like a kid again.
I'm still waiting for proof of this. The Wachowski's said so after the fact, but I'd like to see evidence of it before the original's release.
I have a hard time believing this was designed to be a trilogy. Unlike star wars, I haven't seen any evidence of the larger story arc. I think the matrix was intended to be a stand alone movie, and a trilogy was created because the thing was so damn popular. Reloaded to me seemed tacked on.
Did I say it was the european's fault? It was horrible, but the european's weren't aware of this. They did comitt other atrocities, but this really can't count as one of them. However, it is an important fact to realize. In most US history classes kids are taught that there were about 1 million indians in north America at the time columbus landed. This is a lie, and they should at least know the truth.
Actually, I don't think 90% of the Indian population lived in south america and mesoamerica. There were thriving cultures in the mississipi valley and the american southwest (anasazi and mound builders). the europeans never saw them because the european diseases actuaclly traveled there and wiped them out before the europeans themseleves got there.