Some can be, some can't be. Most electronic bands sound like crap live, or are boring as all hell. Very few are worth paying money to see (orbital and underworld being two that are.)
DRM: Yes, it has DRM, but it's pretty easy to remove it (burn it to a Redbook CD, and other methods).
This is the part that is unacceptable for me. When I but a CD I have access to an uncompressed digital file. I can store it as lossless copression (FLAC) or store it as compressed (Vorbis, MP3). I can also transfer it to my MP3 player. The only loss of quality I get is when I compress it. And then only the first time. If I buy an AAC from apple, I've already encountered the first loss of quality. If I burn it to CD, I don't get the quality back. If I store it as FLAC it remains the same quality as the original download. If I decided to convert it to MP3 (to use on my portable player) I've lost more quality on top of the original... this is not acceptable to me.
The music industry is different from the movie industry in that music videos and songs are played over the airwaves for free (except that I have to listen to and watch commercials). Then, they expect me to purchase a license to those songs. Bollocks!
The movie industry at least gives me a little taste with trailers. If I'd like, I can go see the feature in a theatre, or wait until it is available for rental or purchase. If I decide to purchase the movie, it generally costs about $15.00 --- the same amount I'm expected to pay for an audio CD!!!
What crack are you smoking? Playing audio over for free over the air or on MTV is the same thing as a trailer. They are both samples of a larger product intended to get you to purchase the whole. Does that mean that since they give me a trailer for free I should get the whole movie for free? The whole CD cost between $10-$15, where the trip to the theater costs about $8, a cheaper price but far less useability. Now of course, you can wait until the DVD comes out and then the price and useablitity of the DVD is the same as the CD. However, even my most watched DVD has probably been watched less than my least listened to CD.
Most of the cost of maintenince is built in to their service contracts. Verizon didn't pay any money to maintain the switch they bought from us, we provided all the support and maintenince for a set price. I also know that at least at the CO, there are not huge bundles of wires that you have to sort through to intstall one line, unless you are litterally pulling in newly installed copper. To turn on or off a line is all done in software even on the ancient switches.
Not necessairly true. What if pilfering from your 10% made your other 90% increase in value? say half your revenue from the 10% goes away, but the revenue from the 90% increases by 20X. That's what filesharing has the ability to do for someone like Dave Mathews who makes all his money from touring.
You are posting on slashdot. Therefore you are not most people. I got DSL so I can download CD ISO's faster, host my own website, leave my connections on 24x7, ssh into my box from work, and share one connection with a network of computers. Again, I post on slashdot, I am not most people. Most people got broadband for one reason: to download faster. Surfing the web and downloading email doesn't really require much faster than a dialup line. But downloading music does. Filesharing really is the first killer app that makes joe sixpack want broadband.
But the rest of the world has moved to packet switching while the telcos are holding on to their channellized services and custom features like frame relay and inter-LATA crap because it LETS THEM KEEP THEIR PRICES HIGH. DSL/T1/T3 are so insanley inefficient and that's exactly how SBC likes it.
Bullshit. The reason that they haven't upgraded is because it would be expensive to do so and 95% of customers wouldn't notice a difference at all. Not to mention that the equipment they have is for the most part paid off, and is just a cash cow only requiring maintenance contracts. You won't see Telco's upgrading their systems until the start to fail, or the companies stop supporting them. I used to work for a company that had sold a cellular switch. The thing was archaeic, and we no longer made them, but until we stopped supporting it people were going to continue to use them.
The reason the SBC and Verizon are fighting this is the almighty buck, but not for the reasons you think. They are making tons of money off people switching to broadband. Why do people switch? To get high download speeds. What are they downloading? Mainly music. If the ability to download music is taken away, alot of people might decide that their broadband connection is simply not worth it, and go back to $9.95/month dialup.
It's funny that you mention outlawaudio! My reciever is an outlaw-1050. that's my main problem right now is that I don't have space to have seperate stereo and multichannel setups. My goal is to purchase the outlaw 6 channel amp, and continue to use the reciever as a preamp for the time being, and then eventually replace it with one of their pre-amps. It's supposed to have a very good analog stage that bypasses all the digital processing and best of all has analog cross-overs so you can still use your sub/bookshelf combo.
I think alot of the reason old recordings sound more real is the way things were recorded. Then they were all recorded in one studio, all playing together with not as high tech equipment. There is a little drum in the guitar mike, and some guitar in the vocals, and the whole thing is fuzzier and dirtier. It just sounds more like you're listening to a band playing live.
I envy you're setup. I'm slowly re-ripping everything to flac instead of VBR MP3 and Vorbis. The one area I'm weak in though is my preamp. My turntable is nice, but reciever can't use the sub and crossover settings unless I go through the digital stage first. Which defeats the purpose of my Vinyl. Of course, someday I'll have some huge Klipsch Horns, so I won't have to worry about the sub! Until then I have to deal with Kilipsch bookshelfs.
While I most definitely see room for this as a tool, I have to wonder how it will effect music? I still love some old albums I have...recorded analog..and sound so warm and real. With the new laptop 'studios'...is this to be lost? What about engineering acoustics to get that 'sound'. I read about Zeppelin, going crazy with miking...just for the drums with mics in the drum..down the hall in the john...etc. Will this kind of innovation, and what I perceive to be 'real and natural like' sounds be lost as we move to more compact all digital recording?
The analog sound is great. However, you loose nearly all the benifits when you move to digital at some point down the line. Sure if you get an album that was recorded analog, and pressed on Vinyl, and you play your turntable through the analog stage of your pre-amp you're going to keep that warm sound. But more than likely you're listening to an analog recording, digitally mastered, pressed on to a digital CD, and going through a digital section of the preamp. Kind of makes the begining analog stage pointless.
I was defining produce as being the executive producer (in charge of financing). In reality Lucas has not been the producer on any of the star wars films. It's always been Kurtz McCallum, or Kazanjian. Poor Kazanjian only got to do one... maybe that's the reason ROTJ is my least favorite.
Uhmm, I don't know if i want people in their cars using wi-fi. Now maybe having such as system opperated on city buses and trains would be a good idea.
I prefer cafe ladro myself. Their hazelnut lattes are divine. But when i'm going to a chain I prefer tully's... especially now that SBC is owned by starbucks. The only time I go to starbucks is when I'm taking someone to the market and we stop in to the original store.
He did write, direct, and produce episode 4 by himself; and it's the most successful of all the movies. If you watch the behind the scenes documentaries and commentaries you'll see that he does get plenty of suggestions and critiques.
When was supersonic flight scientifically impossible? People liked to believe that it was impossible, but there was not mathmatical basis for this belief. In fact a century ago we did have things travelling faster than the speed of sound (bullets come to mind). Saying that supersonic flight was scientifically impossible a century ago is like saying the sun being the center of the galaxy was scientifically impossible 400 years ago. They both may have been beliefs common at the time, but they were only beliefs as there was no imperical evidence to back it up.
On the other hand, every mathmatical model and piece of imperical data we have says that any partical with mass will never be able to be accelerated to the speed of light.
I have a nomad IIc. It has builtin 64mb of memory, and I added a 128mb smart media card. Along with the notmad explorer from red chair software It has been a great MP3 player. the 192MB gives me more than enough music to last through the day. The thing is small (but not so small it's hard to use), light, I've dropped it plenty and had no problems. I use rechargeable NiMH batteries in it. It lasts about 5 days (2 hours a day of use on average) on one battery. With the cost of the extra software, the MP3 player, and the memory card I still came out under $150. The most expensive part actually being the memory card. And that I can reuse in my digital camera.
I'm pretty sure that they make ADC's but I've never seen one. It's easy to find high quality DAC's, but of course that's not what you're interested in.
If you have a zen I suggest you download and try notmad explorer from red chair software. It was good enough so I paid them $15 to get the version for my nomad IIc. It allows me to drag and drop files directly to the nomad from explorer. It also will automatically transcode my OGG files into VBR MP3 using lame as I transfer. Pretty sweet.
Don't forget the FSF line - in the absence of copyright, the GPL would be unenforceable, but it would also be unnecessary...
I don't believe that is true. In the absence of copyright, everything would be a BSD license. You could use any source code you found in your software, but you wouldn't need permission or be required to distribute the source.
I would actually consider a PC to be anything that uses a proc out of the 8088 or 8086 family. The reason behind this is that it was called the IBM PC. Therefore PC's are boxes that are compatible with the PC. Now if you just are talking about personal computers Apples/Mac's, SPARC/Alpha/etc are all valid.
But, even if I choose not to buy their products, I'm paying the tax. I don't eat meat, yet my tax dollars support subsidies paid to cattle ranchers and chicken producers. If the companies were paying taxes and I wasn't they could pass their costs on to me, but I wouldn't be buying their product so I wouldn't care. If you were interested in their product, you could pay the increased cost because your taxes would be lower.
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Some can be, some can't be. Most electronic bands sound like crap live, or are boring as all hell. Very few are worth paying money to see (orbital and underworld being two that are.)
Right to a speedy trial only applies to criminal cases. This is a civil case.
DRM: Yes, it has DRM, but it's pretty easy to remove it (burn it to a Redbook CD, and other methods).
This is the part that is unacceptable for me. When I but a CD I have access to an uncompressed digital file. I can store it as lossless copression (FLAC) or store it as compressed (Vorbis, MP3). I can also transfer it to my MP3 player. The only loss of quality I get is when I compress it. And then only the first time. If I buy an AAC from apple, I've already encountered the first loss of quality. If I burn it to CD, I don't get the quality back. If I store it as FLAC it remains the same quality as the original download. If I decided to convert it to MP3 (to use on my portable player) I've lost more quality on top of the original... this is not acceptable to me.
The music industry is different from the movie industry in that music videos and songs are played over the airwaves for free (except that I have to listen to and watch commercials). Then, they expect me to purchase a license to those songs. Bollocks!
The movie industry at least gives me a little taste with trailers. If I'd like, I can go see the feature in a theatre, or wait until it is available for rental or purchase. If I decide to purchase the movie, it generally costs about $15.00 --- the same amount I'm expected to pay for an audio CD!!!
What crack are you smoking? Playing audio over for free over the air or on MTV is the same thing as a trailer. They are both samples of a larger product intended to get you to purchase the whole. Does that mean that since they give me a trailer for free I should get the whole movie for free? The whole CD cost between $10-$15, where the trip to the theater costs about $8, a cheaper price but far less useability. Now of course, you can wait until the DVD comes out and then the price and useablitity of the DVD is the same as the CD. However, even my most watched DVD has probably been watched less than my least listened to CD.
Most of the cost of maintenince is built in to their service contracts. Verizon didn't pay any money to maintain the switch they bought from us, we provided all the support and maintenince for a set price. I also know that at least at the CO, there are not huge bundles of wires that you have to sort through to intstall one line, unless you are litterally pulling in newly installed copper. To turn on or off a line is all done in software even on the ancient switches.
Not necessairly true. What if pilfering from your 10% made your other 90% increase in value? say half your revenue from the 10% goes away, but the revenue from the 90% increases by 20X. That's what filesharing has the ability to do for someone like Dave Mathews who makes all his money from touring.
You are posting on slashdot. Therefore you are not most people. I got DSL so I can download CD ISO's faster, host my own website, leave my connections on 24x7, ssh into my box from work, and share one connection with a network of computers. Again, I post on slashdot, I am not most people. Most people got broadband for one reason: to download faster. Surfing the web and downloading email doesn't really require much faster than a dialup line. But downloading music does. Filesharing really is the first killer app that makes joe sixpack want broadband.
But the rest of the world has moved to packet switching while the telcos are holding on to their channellized services and custom features like frame relay and inter-LATA crap because it LETS THEM KEEP THEIR PRICES HIGH. DSL/T1/T3 are so insanley inefficient and that's exactly how SBC likes it.
Bullshit. The reason that they haven't upgraded is because it would be expensive to do so and 95% of customers wouldn't notice a difference at all. Not to mention that the equipment they have is for the most part paid off, and is just a cash cow only requiring maintenance contracts. You won't see Telco's upgrading their systems until the start to fail, or the companies stop supporting them. I used to work for a company that had sold a cellular switch. The thing was archaeic, and we no longer made them, but until we stopped supporting it people were going to continue to use them.
The reason the SBC and Verizon are fighting this is the almighty buck, but not for the reasons you think. They are making tons of money off people switching to broadband. Why do people switch? To get high download speeds. What are they downloading? Mainly music. If the ability to download music is taken away, alot of people might decide that their broadband connection is simply not worth it, and go back to $9.95/month dialup.
It's funny that you mention outlawaudio! My reciever is an outlaw-1050. that's my main problem right now is that I don't have space to have seperate stereo and multichannel setups. My goal is to purchase the outlaw 6 channel amp, and continue to use the reciever as a preamp for the time being, and then eventually replace it with one of their pre-amps. It's supposed to have a very good analog stage that bypasses all the digital processing and best of all has analog cross-overs so you can still use your sub/bookshelf combo.
I think alot of the reason old recordings sound more real is the way things were recorded. Then they were all recorded in one studio, all playing together with not as high tech equipment. There is a little drum in the guitar mike, and some guitar in the vocals, and the whole thing is fuzzier and dirtier. It just sounds more like you're listening to a band playing live. I envy you're setup. I'm slowly re-ripping everything to flac instead of VBR MP3 and Vorbis. The one area I'm weak in though is my preamp. My turntable is nice, but reciever can't use the sub and crossover settings unless I go through the digital stage first. Which defeats the purpose of my Vinyl. Of course, someday I'll have some huge Klipsch Horns, so I won't have to worry about the sub! Until then I have to deal with Kilipsch bookshelfs.
The analog sound is great. However, you loose nearly all the benifits when you move to digital at some point down the line. Sure if you get an album that was recorded analog, and pressed on Vinyl, and you play your turntable through the analog stage of your pre-amp you're going to keep that warm sound. But more than likely you're listening to an analog recording, digitally mastered, pressed on to a digital CD, and going through a digital section of the preamp. Kind of makes the begining analog stage pointless.
Fear. They want to scare the little kiddies straight. And/or scare their parents into making sure the little kiddes stop using Kazaa.
I was defining produce as being the executive producer (in charge of financing). In reality Lucas has not been the producer on any of the star wars films. It's always been Kurtz McCallum, or Kazanjian. Poor Kazanjian only got to do one... maybe that's the reason ROTJ is my least favorite.
Uhmm, I don't know if i want people in their cars using wi-fi. Now maybe having such as system opperated on city buses and trains would be a good idea.
I prefer cafe ladro myself. Their hazelnut lattes are divine. But when i'm going to a chain I prefer tully's... especially now that SBC is owned by starbucks. The only time I go to starbucks is when I'm taking someone to the market and we stop in to the original store.
He did write, direct, and produce episode 4 by himself; and it's the most successful of all the movies. If you watch the behind the scenes documentaries and commentaries you'll see that he does get plenty of suggestions and critiques.
When was supersonic flight scientifically impossible? People liked to believe that it was impossible, but there was not mathmatical basis for this belief. In fact a century ago we did have things travelling faster than the speed of sound (bullets come to mind). Saying that supersonic flight was scientifically impossible a century ago is like saying the sun being the center of the galaxy was scientifically impossible 400 years ago. They both may have been beliefs common at the time, but they were only beliefs as there was no imperical evidence to back it up.
On the other hand, every mathmatical model and piece of imperical data we have says that any partical with mass will never be able to be accelerated to the speed of light.
I have a nomad IIc. It has builtin 64mb of memory, and I added a 128mb smart media card. Along with the notmad explorer from red chair software It has been a great MP3 player. the 192MB gives me more than enough music to last through the day. The thing is small (but not so small it's hard to use), light, I've dropped it plenty and had no problems. I use rechargeable NiMH batteries in it. It lasts about 5 days (2 hours a day of use on average) on one battery. With the cost of the extra software, the MP3 player, and the memory card I still came out under $150. The most expensive part actually being the memory card. And that I can reuse in my digital camera.
I'm pretty sure that they make ADC's but I've never seen one. It's easy to find high quality DAC's, but of course that's not what you're interested in.
If you have a zen I suggest you download and try notmad explorer from red chair software. It was good enough so I paid them $15 to get the version for my nomad IIc. It allows me to drag and drop files directly to the nomad from explorer. It also will automatically transcode my OGG files into VBR MP3 using lame as I transfer. Pretty sweet.
Don't forget the FSF line - in the absence of copyright, the GPL would be unenforceable, but it would also be unnecessary...
I don't believe that is true. In the absence of copyright, everything would be a BSD license. You could use any source code you found in your software, but you wouldn't need permission or be required to distribute the source.
Using MPEG-4 or DiVX you can get a DVD quality movie down to about 700MB
I would actually consider a PC to be anything that uses a proc out of the 8088 or 8086 family. The reason behind this is that it was called the IBM PC. Therefore PC's are boxes that are compatible with the PC. Now if you just are talking about personal computers Apples/Mac's, SPARC/Alpha/etc are all valid.
But, even if I choose not to buy their products, I'm paying the tax. I don't eat meat, yet my tax dollars support subsidies paid to cattle ranchers and chicken producers. If the companies were paying taxes and I wasn't they could pass their costs on to me, but I wouldn't be buying their product so I wouldn't care. If you were interested in their product, you could pay the increased cost because your taxes would be lower.