Or, it could simply be that they are genuinely afraid of Dells. Apple has certainly burst into this market, but Dell's products are literally bursting.
Like I said, it's an illustration, not a documentary. He's showing a sketch of what happens to the waveform, not demonstrating how it's done. Please refer to his comment if you are still feeling uneasy:
LoudnessWar (6 months ago)
For the sound, I used various multiband compressors and the limiter built into Digital Performer 4.12. The visuals were done with Photoshop and Snapz Pro (animated screen capture). There is no real audio program with a GUI that looks like what I did, though it is an accurate (if simplified) representation of what a compressor does.
Ask anyone who's spend hundreds of hours staring at (and listening to) waveforms, playing with compressors and limiters. The video is an illustration, not a real-time demonstration of applying dynamic range effects. The waveforms he shows onscreen are a suitably accurate representation of the concepts he is describing and the audio samples he is playing back.
Decode the MP3 and then subtract the resulting waveform from the original file. This will give you a much better representation of the difference between the two signals than simply comparing filesizes.
I was thinking specifically of Syd Barrett being compelled to record "Candy and a currant bun" in place of "Let's roll another one", but I imagine it was a fairly common practice throughout the business.
It's not a violation of rights. It is offensive to my musical sensibilities. Do not pretend that Wal-Mart is "choosing not to sell a certain product". They are selling versions altered in accordance with nonartistic concerns -- in accordance with religious and economic concerns. These are not legitimate motivations for altering a piece of music. They are objectionable motivations. This is not an economic problem or a rights problem.
Don't confuse censorship in general with the public freedom of speech. Editing the work of another party to remove something you disagree with is still an offense of censorship against the work -- it is just not a violation of constitutional rights. Wal-Mart is unlike your theoretical bar and grill in that it is offering those works for sale and is making objectionable edits to them. It's not a crime, and it's not a violation of civil liberties. It's just wrong and offensive.
The record companies are indeed complicit in this, and so are the artists. Before you sign your rights and integrity over to a label, you should think long and hard about whether they will be doing something objectionable with your work.
There are lots of ways of creating clean versions. The policy of recording alternate lyrics goes back at least fifteen years, and all the way back to the 60's if you consider negotiations between labels and artists over controversial lines. Another common solution is reversing and chopping up contested lyrics, which does not leave a hole in the melody line and does not require re-recording the line.
You make the fundamental assumption that the RIAA labels don't employ deception in persuading artists to accept those terms. That assumption is not correct. Major record labels just about run on deception.
raising the tax would discourage SUV owners the least. when you're driving around in a $65,000 cadillac escalade, you've already demonstrated you don't have any understanding of cost. charging $4.50 instead of $3.50 a gallon is not likely to affect you either.
raising fuel taxes is, however, realistically likely to break the bank for folks who are already driving used economy cars because that's all they can afford.
a more appropriate approach would be to simply regulate the vehicles off the road by passing appropriate licensing laws. anyone who's spent time on a U.S. road in the past five years will tell you: SUV drivers are the dumbest drivers on the road, largely because the size of the vehicle grossly exceeds their motorway intelligence quotient. placing SUVs in a separate vehicle classification and requiring more stringent driving skill tests would quickly disqualify most of the folks who have been presuming to drive these vehicles.
Think about what the internet was like in 2002, when Mozilla 1.0 was first released. We encountered IE-only sites daily, Safari didn't exist, and MSIE definitively dominated the web landscape. Anyone complaining to a bank or power company about a Mozilla problem just claimed to be using Netscape -- the Gecko browser people had actually heard of -- and rarely got anywhere. Those of us using Mozilla preferred it for a variety of reasons, and hoped for wider adoption so that our preferred browser would receive acceptable support from webmasters.
Today, Firefox is a decidedly mainstream browser, listed on most "supported browser" lists, and Firefox-only sites are about as common now as the remaining IE-only sites. Do we need more adoption? If Firefox is serving its existing users well, is it worth the cost of an advertising blitz to capture a few more?
Yes, mutually understood usage eventually becomes the standard. This, however, is not a reason to simply throw up our arms and say "oh well, popular usage eventually becomes the standard, LOLz!" It's a reason to recognize the fact that words and phrases already have commonly accepted documented meanings, and that if we wish to be understood clearly, we would do well to follow that established usage until it limits our ability to express things.
Abandoning the nuance of "to beg the question" in order to turn it into an ugly synonym for "to raise the question" doesn't expand our expressiveness. It doesn't create a new, useful sense for the phrase. It only discards the accepted meaning of the phrase, offers no replacement, and in the end, dilutes the expressiveness of our language.
As you point out, it is popular usage that will eventually decide the issue. That is all the more reason that we should actively resist those who would throw meaning in the garbage out of a simple unfamiliarity with the words they use. Teaching others how we use our language is an important tool for preserving its expressiveness.
The author shows a photo with the laptop next to a Taiwan $10 coin, adding that it is about the same size as a US half-dollar. Since this won't help most folks in the US (for whom receiving a half-dollar coin in change is a rare occurrence), it may help to know that the NT$10 coin is not quite 2mm larger than a U.S. quarter.
That's exactly why the FSF recommend the "or any later version" application of the GPL. Don't hold the FSF responsible for Torvalds' decision to lock himself into GPL2.
The Linux and OS X desktop user bases have been roughly the same size for several years now, although I believe the OS X user base has finally begun to slightly outnumber the Linux share. I think the argument you want to make here is that the technically-oriented and freedom-inclined Linux user base would be unlikely to purchase low-bitrate DRM'ed AAC files.
I would assume that I'd been given a bonus as part of some kind of promotion. This is fairly common on internet gambling sites: deposit $50 and we give you $250, yours to play with and keep as long as you play XYZ number of games.
You ever tried to remove a US president from office? No? How about an entire corrupt regime? It's not very fucking easy, dude.
Make no mistake -- these planes are being deployed by the military power elite, without consultation, and without any prior announcement. The first any of us even heard about them was today. I know it's easier on a small mind to just think of all Americans as some kind of unitary blob, but it doesn't reflect reality at all.
croddy@localhost $ vrms Non-free packages installed on localhost
doom2-wad IWAD from ID Software's DOOM 2 computer game iozone3 Filesystem and Disk Benchmarking Tool nvidia-glx NVIDIA binary Xorg driver Reason: Proprietary license nvidia-glx-dev NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files Reason: Proprietary license openlogic-discovery Tool for locating installed open-source software packages Reason: Who needs this - when you've got me?
5 non-free packages, 0.3% of 1519 installed packages
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Or, it could simply be that they are genuinely afraid of Dells. Apple has certainly burst into this market, but Dell's products are literally bursting.
Ask anyone who's spend hundreds of hours staring at (and listening to) waveforms, playing with compressors and limiters. The video is an illustration, not a real-time demonstration of applying dynamic range effects. The waveforms he shows onscreen are a suitably accurate representation of the concepts he is describing and the audio samples he is playing back.
Eleven? Psshht. Play though a Fender Hot Rod series amp -- every knob goes to twelve.
Decode the MP3 and then subtract the resulting waveform from the original file. This will give you a much better representation of the difference between the two signals than simply comparing filesizes.
In a country which fails to recognize EXECUTING PEOPLE as cruel and unusual, you're right, I don't think this one's going to fly.
Yes, that is correct. I have a problem with everyone involved in this practice.
I was thinking specifically of Syd Barrett being compelled to record "Candy and a currant bun" in place of "Let's roll another one", but I imagine it was a fairly common practice throughout the business.
It's not a violation of rights. It is offensive to my musical sensibilities. Do not pretend that Wal-Mart is "choosing not to sell a certain product". They are selling versions altered in accordance with nonartistic concerns -- in accordance with religious and economic concerns. These are not legitimate motivations for altering a piece of music. They are objectionable motivations. This is not an economic problem or a rights problem.
Don't confuse censorship in general with the public freedom of speech. Editing the work of another party to remove something you disagree with is still an offense of censorship against the work -- it is just not a violation of constitutional rights. Wal-Mart is unlike your theoretical bar and grill in that it is offering those works for sale and is making objectionable edits to them. It's not a crime, and it's not a violation of civil liberties. It's just wrong and offensive.
The record companies are indeed complicit in this, and so are the artists. Before you sign your rights and integrity over to a label, you should think long and hard about whether they will be doing something objectionable with your work.
There are lots of ways of creating clean versions. The policy of recording alternate lyrics goes back at least fifteen years, and all the way back to the 60's if you consider negotiations between labels and artists over controversial lines. Another common solution is reversing and chopping up contested lyrics, which does not leave a hole in the melody line and does not require re-recording the line.
No, of course you should not feel obligated to help others.
You should do it because you know it's the right thing to do.
You make the fundamental assumption that the RIAA labels don't employ deception in persuading artists to accept those terms. That assumption is not correct. Major record labels just about run on deception.
raising the tax would discourage SUV owners the least. when you're driving around in a $65,000 cadillac escalade, you've already demonstrated you don't have any understanding of cost. charging $4.50 instead of $3.50 a gallon is not likely to affect you either.
raising fuel taxes is, however, realistically likely to break the bank for folks who are already driving used economy cars because that's all they can afford.
a more appropriate approach would be to simply regulate the vehicles off the road by passing appropriate licensing laws. anyone who's spent time on a U.S. road in the past five years will tell you: SUV drivers are the dumbest drivers on the road, largely because the size of the vehicle grossly exceeds their motorway intelligence quotient. placing SUVs in a separate vehicle classification and requiring more stringent driving skill tests would quickly disqualify most of the folks who have been presuming to drive these vehicles.
Think about what the internet was like in 2002, when Mozilla 1.0 was first released. We encountered IE-only sites daily, Safari didn't exist, and MSIE definitively dominated the web landscape. Anyone complaining to a bank or power company about a Mozilla problem just claimed to be using Netscape -- the Gecko browser people had actually heard of -- and rarely got anywhere. Those of us using Mozilla preferred it for a variety of reasons, and hoped for wider adoption so that our preferred browser would receive acceptable support from webmasters.
Today, Firefox is a decidedly mainstream browser, listed on most "supported browser" lists, and Firefox-only sites are about as common now as the remaining IE-only sites. Do we need more adoption? If Firefox is serving its existing users well, is it worth the cost of an advertising blitz to capture a few more?
ctrl+f "docutainment" NOT FOUND?
Yes, mutually understood usage eventually becomes the standard. This, however, is not a reason to simply throw up our arms and say "oh well, popular usage eventually becomes the standard, LOLz!" It's a reason to recognize the fact that words and phrases already have commonly accepted documented meanings, and that if we wish to be understood clearly, we would do well to follow that established usage until it limits our ability to express things.
Abandoning the nuance of "to beg the question" in order to turn it into an ugly synonym for "to raise the question" doesn't expand our expressiveness. It doesn't create a new, useful sense for the phrase. It only discards the accepted meaning of the phrase, offers no replacement, and in the end, dilutes the expressiveness of our language.
As you point out, it is popular usage that will eventually decide the issue. That is all the more reason that we should actively resist those who would throw meaning in the garbage out of a simple unfamiliarity with the words they use. Teaching others how we use our language is an important tool for preserving its expressiveness.
Actually, where I grew up most people called it a "50-cent piece".
The author shows a photo with the laptop next to a Taiwan $10 coin, adding that it is about the same size as a US half-dollar. Since this won't help most folks in the US (for whom receiving a half-dollar coin in change is a rare occurrence), it may help to know that the NT$10 coin is not quite 2mm larger than a U.S. quarter.
That's exactly why the FSF recommend the "or any later version" application of the GPL. Don't hold the FSF responsible for Torvalds' decision to lock himself into GPL2.
The Linux and OS X desktop user bases have been roughly the same size for several years now, although I believe the OS X user base has finally begun to slightly outnumber the Linux share. I think the argument you want to make here is that the technically-oriented and freedom-inclined Linux user base would be unlikely to purchase low-bitrate DRM'ed AAC files.
I would assume that I'd been given a bonus as part of some kind of promotion. This is fairly common on internet gambling sites: deposit $50 and we give you $250, yours to play with and keep as long as you play XYZ number of games.
You ever tried to remove a US president from office? No? How about an entire corrupt regime? It's not very fucking easy, dude.
Make no mistake -- these planes are being deployed by the military power elite, without consultation, and without any prior announcement. The first any of us even heard about them was today. I know it's easier on a small mind to just think of all Americans as some kind of unitary blob, but it doesn't reflect reality at all.
croddy@localhost $ vrms
Non-free packages installed on localhost
doom2-wad IWAD from ID Software's DOOM 2 computer game
iozone3 Filesystem and Disk Benchmarking Tool
nvidia-glx NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
Reason: Proprietary license
nvidia-glx-dev NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
Reason: Proprietary license
openlogic-discovery Tool for locating installed open-source software packages
Reason: Who needs this - when you've got me?
5 non-free packages, 0.3% of 1519 installed packages