No, sorry there Mr. A.C. -- Bose speakers are mediocre.
First, the subwoofer + satellite model is fundamentally flawed. 20Hz is directional. Bass doesn't "fill the room like fog" -- when a train's coming, you can hear the direction, right?
If you bought Bose, you overpaid for consumer grade stuff and the Circuit City man swindled you out of your money. Big 3-way cabinets produce a flat signal, but, granted, they take up space. Those tiny cubes sound like fluorescent lights -- almost white noise, not quite, but in a cheaper package. Sticking a subwoofer under the table doesn't make up for it.
If you want to listen to music, you should be prepared to make space for the equipment it takes to do it.
quiet for a second. re-read his argument. you are wildly misconstruing it. his argument is very simple:
1. I do not like this price
2. I will not pay it
3. there are millions of people like me
4. labels cannot profit while this is true.
you can run your mouth all you want about the ethics of it, but the fact remains that a substantial number -- a huge number -- of consumers find the price of the average CD to be beyond their acceptable price point. until the price comes down they will not buy CDs.
whether I download mp3s on the internet, or simply do not listen to any music at all, the amount of money made by the copyright holders is the same -- they make no money off me.
no, no, I understand that you *really want* to talk about how it's unethical, but that is entirely irrelevant. it can be ethical or not ethical, but if the labels want to make customers out of the people who are trading files on the internet, they will have to reduce the price of CDs.
constellation makes money selling double CDs at the price of a major label's single CD. they do this without the benefit of worldwide marketing, without benefiting from the economies of scale in conglomerate distribution, and without paying clearchannel to play the songs of their bands.
if they can get away with this then we know there's something really wrong with the price-fix^H^H^H^H^H pricing of CDs in the status quo.
I have 3 20MB Seagate ST225s... 20 years old... still work like the day they were made. that being said, my two current HDs are a Western Digital, and a... uh, Quantum Fireball. the name inspires such confidence!
AFAIK there's no requirement (IANAL). but to answer your subject line I can do around 700wpm; listening comprehension up to 450wpm or so. on the phone it would drop to ~300-350.
john moschitta (the micro machines guy) is a lightweight, he's only going about 280 in the ads. he had the record for a while but lost it. most people if they really try can get up to 300.
I've got to say MS is right on here; reliability standards won't just hurt commercial/proprietary developers -- imagine the mozilla project trying to get testing done on an unstable beta/alpha under a software standards regime. I think informed consent on beta software is a much better solution.
Of course, more deaths are caused by human error than by bad software, and modern society would be unthinkable without Web servers, word processors and autopilot.
(this confuses me. isn't bad software a *kind* of human error?)
seems like wide beta testing and open source code provide a better solution than enforcement of reliability standards and liability for bugs.
no, democracy is not what I really want. we don't want skript-kiddos as our server admins and I sure as hell don't want some half-wit voting for more and more DRM/gun ctrl/PATRIOT etc.
in the first 3 client releases there was a banner ad space, but it never displayed anything except a link to napster.com. I guess we should have known the business model was fkd up when the new clients had no banner space.
Because none of them can provide session and mouse-gesture and fast performance and skinnable UI and mail/news reader and note keeper and image zooming and tabbed-window.
yeah, a while ago they had a blurb on their front page claiming they'd invented the multiple document interface. ha.
opera looks nice. personally, though, I prefer for my web pages to render correctly. I also like it when my browser is free OSS, instead of $40 secret binaries.
opera users will be here for a while. the good news, though, is that we can fight them with compliant HTML.
ENG 301 best class ever. a few weeks ago someone dropped an info sheet for beowulf cluster development in his mailbox. apparently he thought it would be a good idea to ask in class 'so, anyone know what this is?'
On my Mac I have Pro Tools, PhotoShop (Hello Mr. GIMP, ever heard of MONITOR PROFILES? NO? GOODBYE!), Logic and a bunch of other stuff. They are professional quality and worth every fucking penny and annoying dongle.
my whole computer's out of the trash. it was free, except for $60 of memory I put in it. on my windows partition I have protools, photoshop, paint shop pro.
you remember the 17" Studio Display? mine came in a box that said sony trinitron. I bought it from my friend for $20.
On my Linux box I have problems PLAYING TWO SOUNDS AT ONCE, okay? That's the state of the art on my Linux machine.
on my linux partition I have an ALSA patched kernel. 24 tracks in Ardour, no problem. just recorded an EP with it. honestly it's more stable than protools ' uptime-eliminating DAE on macos *or* windows.
I am thinking about upgrading from my athlon 550 though.
hmm. when I'm using OS9 or OSX I find I'm always having to hold down CTRL, or CMD, or SHIFT when I'm clicking. suddenly it's not a simple 1 button mouse, but a 4 button mouse with 3 of the buttons on the keyboard. good work steve.
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First, the subwoofer + satellite model is fundamentally flawed. 20Hz is directional. Bass doesn't "fill the room like fog" -- when a train's coming, you can hear the direction, right?
If you bought Bose, you overpaid for consumer grade stuff and the Circuit City man swindled you out of your money. Big 3-way cabinets produce a flat signal, but, granted, they take up space. Those tiny cubes sound like fluorescent lights -- almost white noise, not quite, but in a cheaper package. Sticking a subwoofer under the table doesn't make up for it.
If you want to listen to music, you should be prepared to make space for the equipment it takes to do it.
1. I do not like this price
2. I will not pay it
3. there are millions of people like me
4. labels cannot profit while this is true.
you can run your mouth all you want about the ethics of it, but the fact remains that a substantial number -- a huge number -- of consumers find the price of the average CD to be beyond their acceptable price point. until the price comes down they will not buy CDs.
whether I download mp3s on the internet, or simply do not listen to any music at all, the amount of money made by the copyright holders is the same -- they make no money off me.
no, no, I understand that you *really want* to talk about how it's unethical, but that is entirely irrelevant. it can be ethical or not ethical, but if the labels want to make customers out of the people who are trading files on the internet, they will have to reduce the price of CDs.
constellation makes money selling double CDs at the price of a major label's single CD. they do this without the benefit of worldwide marketing, without benefiting from the economies of scale in conglomerate distribution, and without paying clearchannel to play the songs of their bands.
if they can get away with this then we know there's something really wrong with the price-fix^H^H^H^H^H pricing of CDs in the status quo.
it's debian!
RTFA. [here] and [here] are similar uhelicopters; the Pixel is a prototype only.
I have 3 20MB Seagate ST225s ... 20 years old ... still work like the day they were made. that being said, my two current HDs are a Western Digital, and a ... uh, Quantum Fireball. the name inspires such confidence!
john moschitta (the micro machines guy) is a lightweight, he's only going about 280 in the ads. he had the record for a while but lost it. most people if they really try can get up to 300.
Of course, more deaths are caused by human error than by bad software, and modern society would be unthinkable without Web servers, word processors and autopilot.
(this confuses me. isn't bad software a *kind* of human error?)
seems like wide beta testing and open source code provide a better solution than enforcement of reliability standards and liability for bugs.
there's some kind of methodological flaw in that, seeing as opera comes out so far from the absolute bottom.
that's audacity.
no, democracy is not what I really want. we don't want skript-kiddos as our server admins and I sure as hell don't want some half-wit voting for more and more DRM/gun ctrl/PATRIOT etc.
o Yes . . . . . . . o No
*click*
clever . . .
charge it $5 and then credit back $5.
Lincoln didn't abolish slavery. The 13th amendment to the constitution abolished slavery. Lincoln ran a PR campaign for the war.
in the first 3 client releases there was a banner ad space, but it never displayed anything except a link to napster.com. I guess we should have known the business model was fkd up when the new clients had no banner space.
I like mozilla. it renders html properly.
opera looks nice. personally, though, I prefer for my web pages to render correctly. I also like it when my browser is free OSS, instead of $40 secret binaries.
opera users will be here for a while. the good news, though, is that we can fight them with compliant HTML.
aimee mann is not on an indie label either. super ego is an RIAA member. dear internet: please stop calling conglomerated labels independent.
death row are RIAA members. not a rags to riches story, but rather a triumph of slick marketing.
cr
epitaph is about as independent as death row. constellation - now there's an independent label.
ENG 301 best class ever. a few weeks ago someone dropped an info sheet for beowulf cluster development in his mailbox. apparently he thought it would be a good idea to ask in class 'so, anyone know what this is?'
ha
my whole computer's out of the trash. it was free, except for $60 of memory I put in it. on my windows partition I have protools, photoshop, paint shop pro.
you remember the 17" Studio Display? mine came in a box that said sony trinitron. I bought it from my friend for $20.
On my Linux box I have problems PLAYING TWO SOUNDS AT ONCE, okay? That's the state of the art on my Linux machine.
on my linux partition I have an ALSA patched kernel. 24 tracks in Ardour, no problem. just recorded an EP with it. honestly it's more stable than protools ' uptime-eliminating DAE on macos *or* windows.
I am thinking about upgrading from my athlon 550 though.
hmm. when I'm using OS9 or OSX I find I'm always having to hold down CTRL, or CMD, or SHIFT when I'm clicking. suddenly it's not a simple 1 button mouse, but a 4 button mouse with 3 of the buttons on the keyboard. good work steve.
well then, don't buy the seeds. fucking hell.
I would hope not.
it worked!