Amazon.com: First gift arrived within two days, second arrived within a week. Amazon.ca delivered my third gift in three days. Shop for what's in stock and everything goes pretty smooth.
It's too bad the audio cassette devices at Thinkgeek do not (appear to) have Dolby B & C decoding. Transcribing tapes recorded with B & C noise reduction to wav, without the decoding will sound like crap (especially Dolby C)
One might as well buy a used cassette deck, and use analog hookups to your PC.
"I can't help but wonder who'd care enough about this topic to be writing serious thoughtful comments on it on christmas eve!..." "...the point is that even I am not spending christmas eve thinking about the next 2.6.28 release notes"
My comment is relative to the AC post above (as I replied to that posting).
"Not all Linux users are Christians, you know. I know several devoutly pagan Linux advocates, and quite a few Jewish ones"...thanks, I guess,... Not sure why you feel you must this out since I am referencing one comment.
Writing to the Slashdot community on Christmas eve that you're not thinking about the next kernel notes... sounds like you need a 12 step program for Linux or Slashdot.
"The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it."
Oh great...TWO ways to die in a Gee Wiz... in a crash, AND in a hydrogen carbecue!
I agree. If you had to travel, its short battery life made the watch relatively useless unless you lugged the stupid charger around with you. A watch should be simple enough to forget about it. This one needed constant nursing if you wanted to keep it running.
The tiered plans available were a joke... all of which were different levels of mediocre.
The way I see it, Sony is feeding their propaganda to the public to make their market share wish come true. Feed enough BS to the people and some will believe and follow suit, making the BS come true.
It reminds me of gas prices here in Canada. We were warned by analysts a year or two back that gasoline will reach $1.00/L frequently enough that when it happened, some complained but most expected it and accepted it as inevitable. We are frequently being primed by oil companies for $1.50/L fuel by this summer (justified or not), what are the chances it will happen with little resistance?
Where the analogy is similar, Sony is telling the marketplace they will get the market share they predict, and those who will listen will figure to jump on board, interpreting it inevitable.
"...it would be like buying a Coke tagged with RFID and the cashier never disabling the RFID tag after the sale or telling the customers about it..."
That analogy sounds more applicable to Apple's M4P's than to MP3's
I think MP3s are more like the Coke bottle: Buy the product, use the product, hell even make the product yourself as long as you don't commercially pass it off as "the real thing", or distribute it in Coke's bottles, or distribute the recipe on-line using Lime wire otherwise the "Drink Interest Consortium Klan" (aka DICK) will sick their lawyers on you, taking away your "Coke and a Smile".
"How many times should you be allowed to burn a copy of a CD that you purchased?
-Zero -One or two -Three to seven -As many as I like; I own it."
99% answered: "As many as I like; I own it."
In the poll no distribution (casual or otherwise) is implied and the user has purchased the product. Not particularly thought provoking. Should we expect an article follow up relating to this question, dealing with the semantics of copy control and how the lack of copy controls will make the RIAA cry?
The poll questions posted seem more of a data mining exercise for Microsoft than a learning tool. After reviewing a few "viewpoints" and "interviews", I think I would rather have another entity teaching IP to children than Microsoft.
Five systems, maybe one system potentially hosting the internet as an application? Intriguing theory!
Below is what appeared when I attempted to review the document.
" Server Error Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have a mapping to process this request."
Ummm, yeah... *ahem*... What could possibly go wrong?! Could you imagine this "internet application" crashing? 5 points of failure (or less) to troubleshoot but at what cost? You better hope that in such a configuration the backup systems are "bulletproof"
Tom Smykowski: It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Michael Bolton: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
- " I have downloaded several albums from emusic.com and even though they *say* they use lame --aps to encode their mp3s it is quite obvious that some of the albums are very low bit-rate. "
From my downloads at eMusic, I found some of the albums were VBR encoded using older revisions of Lame, like v3.92 (april 2002). I found albums from 2006 encoded with the same relic version of Lame. From various forums and newsgroups, the Lame lineage of 3.96 (april 2004) and higher (v3.97 released September 2006) is where the mp3 encoding quality, especially for VBR, excels.
I guess just because they use Lame, does not mean they take extra care encoding the tracks using modern revisions of the encoder.
It doesn't really matter if FLAC does a nice job when the record companies themselves lower the standard of the original audio recording to suit the listening environment of the lowest common denominator.
Encode "Dani California" from Red Hot Chilli peppers with FLAC, and FLAC will maintain the original fidelity of the track guaranteed no argument from me. With MP3's I use the additional LAME command line "-V0 --vbr-new -m s -c -b 224 --lowpass 22" for my CD encoding, but really, it probably would not matter if I encode "Dani California" at 128kbps. The original recording is so compressed that virtually no one would notice or care. The problem is the original source track doesn't have audio fidelity in the first place - the point of the article. And more recording are lately being produced this way.
This Rolling Stone article is not exposing anything new about studio compressed recordings. Audiophile and stereo magazines were raising the concern regarding compression, and downgrading alterations made many years before MP3 encoding became a mainstream phenomenon.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y6231uAmo&NR=1
(No, Rickrolling)
Read Coryking's post in "Ed Gruberman's" voice...then give him a "Boot to the head"!
Agreed.
Amazon.com: First gift arrived within two days, second arrived within a week. Amazon.ca delivered my third gift in three days. Shop for what's in stock and everything goes pretty smooth.
It's too bad the audio cassette devices at Thinkgeek do not (appear to) have Dolby B & C decoding. Transcribing tapes recorded with B & C noise reduction to wav, without the decoding will sound like crap (especially Dolby C)
One might as well buy a used cassette deck, and use analog hookups to your PC.
"I can't help but wonder who'd care enough about this topic to be writing serious thoughtful comments on it on christmas eve!..."
"...the point is that even I am not spending christmas eve thinking about the next 2.6.28 release notes"
My comment is relative to the AC post above (as I replied to that posting).
"Not all Linux users are Christians, you know. I know several devoutly pagan Linux advocates, and quite a few Jewish ones" ...thanks, I guess, ... Not sure why you feel you must this out since I am referencing one comment.
Writing to the Slashdot community on Christmas eve that you're not thinking about the next kernel notes... sounds like you need a 12 step program for Linux or Slashdot.
to test if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.
Yeah, I agree...I hate mimes. Those painted faces, no sound, they creep me out! They are pants!
oh, meme ... never mind.
Dead links? Here's one you can click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI
Just trying to help!
"The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it."
Oh great...TWO ways to die in a Gee Wiz... in a crash, AND in a hydrogen carbecue!
http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/1832/
Woah! I think Richard would have better success doing a collaborative effort here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjAH7x4vE9U
Yeah, watching the Weezer video makes up for that painful "I will derive" incident here... *phew*
No worries, I made a copy! ....Oh.
I agree. If you had to travel, its short battery life made the watch relatively useless unless you lugged the stupid charger around with you. A watch should be simple enough to forget about it. This one needed constant nursing if you wanted to keep it running.
The tiered plans available were a joke... all of which were different levels of mediocre.
The way I see it, Sony is feeding their propaganda to the public to make their market share wish come true. Feed enough BS to the people and some will believe and follow suit, making the BS come true.
It reminds me of gas prices here in Canada. We were warned by analysts a year or two back that gasoline will reach $1.00/L frequently enough that when it happened, some complained but most expected it and accepted it as inevitable. We are frequently being primed by oil companies for $1.50/L fuel by this summer (justified or not), what are the chances it will happen with little resistance?
Where the analogy is similar, Sony is telling the marketplace they will get the market share they predict, and those who will listen will figure to jump on board, interpreting it inevitable.
Wow...the courtesy!
;)
I didn't realize or think it was possible that "Mac and Tosh" were members of Slashdot
"...it would be like buying a Coke tagged with RFID and the cashier never disabling the RFID tag after the sale or telling the customers about it..."
That analogy sounds more applicable to Apple's M4P's than to MP3's
I think MP3s are more like the Coke bottle: Buy the product, use the product, hell even make the product yourself as long as you don't commercially pass it off as "the real thing", or distribute it in Coke's bottles, or distribute the recipe on-line using Lime wire otherwise the "Drink Interest Consortium Klan" (aka DICK) will sick their lawyers on you, taking away your "Coke and a Smile".
I had a quick look at the MyBytes site.
From the site:
"How many times should you be allowed to burn a copy of a CD that you purchased?
-Zero -One or two -Three to seven -As many as I like; I own it."
99% answered: "As many as I like; I own it."
In the poll no distribution (casual or otherwise) is implied and the user has purchased the product. Not particularly thought provoking. Should we expect an article follow up relating to this question, dealing with the semantics of copy control and how the lack of copy controls will make the RIAA cry?
The poll questions posted seem more of a data mining exercise for Microsoft than a learning tool. After reviewing a few "viewpoints" and "interviews", I think I would rather have another entity teaching IP to children than Microsoft.
*With hands out, palms up*
I. Thought. William. Shatner. Talked. More. Like. This. See?
Five systems, maybe one system potentially hosting the internet as an application? Intriguing theory!
Below is what appeared when I attempted to review the document.
" Server Error
Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have a mapping to process this request."
Ummm, yeah... *ahem*... What could possibly go wrong?! Could you imagine this "internet application" crashing? 5 points of failure (or less) to troubleshoot but at what cost? You better hope that in such a configuration the backup systems are "bulletproof"
Yeah, I know...sorry. My thinking seemed little fishy today
(Score: 5, Corny)
No. I quickly read it as "hearty herring", but I guess I was hungry at the time
Obligatory "Office Space" Quotes...
Tom Smykowski: It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Michael Bolton: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
- " I have downloaded several albums from emusic.com and even though they *say* they use lame --aps to encode their mp3s it is quite obvious that some of the albums are very low bit-rate. "
From my downloads at eMusic, I found some of the albums were VBR encoded using older revisions of Lame, like v3.92 (april 2002). I found albums from 2006 encoded with the same relic version of Lame. From various forums and newsgroups, the Lame lineage of 3.96 (april 2004) and higher (v3.97 released September 2006) is where the mp3 encoding quality, especially for VBR, excels.
I guess just because they use Lame, does not mean they take extra care encoding the tracks using modern revisions of the encoder.
"What's next, deathsquads for humming unlicensed tunes?"
SHHHH!!! Don't give the RIAA ideas!
It doesn't really matter if FLAC does a nice job when the record companies themselves lower the standard of the original audio recording to suit the listening environment of the lowest common denominator.
Encode "Dani California" from Red Hot Chilli peppers with FLAC, and FLAC will maintain the original fidelity of the track guaranteed no argument from me. With MP3's I use the additional LAME command line "-V0 --vbr-new -m s -c -b 224 --lowpass 22" for my CD encoding, but really, it probably would not matter if I encode "Dani California" at 128kbps. The original recording is so compressed that virtually no one would notice or care. The problem is the original source track doesn't have audio fidelity in the first place - the point of the article. And more recording are lately being produced this way.
This Rolling Stone article is not exposing anything new about studio compressed recordings. Audiophile and stereo magazines were raising the concern regarding compression, and downgrading alterations made many years before MP3 encoding became a mainstream phenomenon.