People who think like you are masters of retreat. "It doesn't matter, we still have fair use". Fair use is currently under attack, but that won't matter next because we'll still have paraphrase. When that becomes the target, we'll still have discussion of the contents to comfort us. For a while.
By demonstrating the proper and logical consequences of the copyright concepts universally demanded by a wide range of industires from legal to entertainment we get a clear view into their irrational and bankrupt foundations. These people are pure and simple anti-society and entirely pro-personal profit at society's expense and should be treated as such, legally and as a nation.
"I've learned that trying to convince someone who is happy with their software..." At least four or five essentially computer illiterate coworkers switched to Apple after first trying Vista, so you have a valid point. In the case of Linux it's free and it works flawlessly would be the killer lock-in. The latter still needs work.
"More to the point, using people's fear of a lunatic going on a shooting rampage to justify ludicrous measures...." Shamelessly stealing from an earlier post:
What are you retarded?
Take your Anti-US trolling somewhere else troll.
Interesting and clever analysis but I think the results are a little pessimistic. I recall the ideal noise floor of an LP being in the -65 dB below nominal 0 range, with audio audible at least 10 db further into the floor. Unlike digital you can exceed nominal 0 by yet another ~10 db (?) before the stylus jumps the groove, so the total range I suspect more than the brickwall/absolute 66 dB dynamic range of 11 bit. Maybe 12 or 13.;)
"Another common belief, but the sad reality is that most music has always stunk." Before MTV good looks weren't required to make the top tier. Before digital production techniques playing a song straight through as a band was a minimum requirement for entry. Good god man, look at how dynamic genres were from the dawn of recording to about the mid-Seventies and the absolute stagnation since. You can't honestly be claiming the current music scene is no different in substance than when Benny Goodman or the British Invasion were alive. The only truly popular new genre since RIAA members got seriously involved in regulating distribution is rap and its offshoots, and that's approaching thirty years old.
It makes no sense to talk about audio quality by comparing performances. And your premise is plainly incorrect. Some of the highest quality classical recordings ever made are recent. The reason very early classical recordings are so prized, beside the performances, is the recordings were made with at most 2 or 3 microphones and authentically capture the sound of the recording venue. Great sound on an artistic level, limited only by the state of the art film or tape recorders of the era. Ironically DG, though they denied it vehemently, was one of the first labels to use level compression and pop-style microphone techniques on classical recordings, putting an end to the first Golden Age.
Check the Naxos website. Norbert Craft, Victor Villadangos, young competition winners, a wide selection of South American composers, this is the way it should be done, new and relatively unknown artists and music at a fair price. It's not uncommon to find Naxos CDs at bookstores up here. What you described is exactly the lazy, unthinking, control-based model the RIAA slugs have fought to legislate into place for most of my life for their sole benefit and at the expense of music and musicians. Let them die.
Why hasn't this already happened then? How will a injection of new network funds and resources, including the benefit of cross-media promotion, hasten the already non-existant rush from core dailies to free-at-the-Starbucks independents? Wishful thinking.
As an electrical engineer I also know tubes circuits can be designed with flat responses well beyond human audibility (hence, tube radios and transmitters) and that DSP isn't typically used to alter frequency response. Oh, and tube filaments keep glowing long after a tube's gain has collapsed. Some of the advantages you list are correct, supposedly the Soviets until recently used tubes in some critical circuits of their fighter planes. They also continued development in the field long after the Western world went silicon, originating some of the premier examples of the technology.
To answer your question, assuming the tube circuit wasn't intentionally designed for audible distortion (by no means necessary), no one knows why, or even agrees on the 'if'.
I have a 45 year old amp on a shelf with distortion figures bettering any scientifically proven metric for audibility at normal listening levels. The distortion argument became invalid with the introduction of the Williamson circuit (a very long time ago.)
The conspiracy is much older than that. Look at a Stradivarius violin or a Steinway Grand, play-o-phools continue to spend small fortunes on these musical instruments with no scientific justification. The same sound, guitars and amps included, can be had at any corner music or pawn shop for a fraction of the price. The world's going hell.
Harper's always been a prick and in the pocket of the Americans. He sold out the softwood lumber trade, arbitrarily and unilateraly tossing a carefully crafted agreement with the US out the window and handing over money to American business interests rightfully belonging to wronged Canadian companies. Just like he's tossing us to the American media cartels. He's so intent on 'righting' relations he may as well be in Bush's pants. Don't even start on his 'alignment' with American defense and security interests. The election can't come soon enough, hopefully before he wrecks us for generations.
You hit on what so many miss by not thinking past the limited context maintained by media cartels to the larger principles involved. At its base artists and writers feel entitled to a portion of any income that makes use of their works. Sounds reasonable but it begs the question, why just the arts? Truly important works, works which literally changed the face of society beyond recognition, have been created by scientists and engineers for generations. They are infinitely more important to society's health and yet most, Shockley for example, never see returns greater than the most forgettable and transitory media darling.
Songwriters would scream blue murder if forced to pay back a percentage of their earnings to Intel, Logitech and Samsung for use of the engineering IP in creating their works yet see no conflict in chasing taxi companies and restaurants for playing a radio. Until they demand to reimburse society for taking from the common weal of sentence structures, forms of literature, words and phrases to lock into their 'IP', it's hypocritical opportunism and an unquestionable corruption of copyright's intent.
Call me nuts, but computers can filter better than the clowns shoving recent popular acts down our throats. I find the music I like via socially driven and filtered avenues such as Usenet, not the Billboard 100.
Harper makes no bones about being Bush's 'Mini-me'. Almost his first act was to trash years of careful negotiations over the Can/US softwood lumber debate and literally take hundreds of millions of agreed repartitions from his citizens and hand them to the States. He's the worst kind of craven, slavish power worshiper and his ilk will do generations of damage to Canada before they're ousted.
Reduced to defending KISS on Slashdot is the highlight of my day, but this band starved the first few years and sacrificed everything for FAME and GROUPIES. I work with a former uber-fan/Kiss Army member from the music industry and the stories are fascinating. It wasn't until well after 'Alive' or 'Destroyer', with the end of the gravy train looming into view, that MONEY took primacy. For a band with 35 years behind them the golden days were short lived true, but they did happen.
And while the music won't last they worked their asses off on the early tours and kicked out one hell of a show. One of my all time favourite concerts was Kiss at Cobo Hall/Detroit (some of which ended up on Alive 1.)
No. Though I very much want to see a few select neocons swing for treason, it was the legislative excesses of Clinton's 'War on Drugs' which laid the groundwork for abuses like the Patriot Act. When the ends justify the means, the means become available as tools for any end.
No man. Currently a renaissance is underway courtesy of Chinese production. Adjusted for inflation quality tube gear has probably never been cheaper. Truth is some UL-approved (some isn't, don't use it wet) quality gear - Prima Luna for example - costs less on in today's dollars than the original MSRP of midline Seventies solid state gear. Certainly you can spend insane money but it's in no way necessary.
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Because what the world need right now is even more government intervention, lawyers, accountants, law enforcement and beauacracy in our lives.
You obviously haven't seen what most of the entries look like. Monkeys with video cams would be a step up.
By demonstrating the proper and logical consequences of the copyright concepts universally demanded by a wide range of industires from legal to entertainment we get a clear view into their irrational and bankrupt foundations. These people are pure and simple anti-society and entirely pro-personal profit at society's expense and should be treated as such, legally and as a nation.
Interesting and clever analysis but I think the results are a little pessimistic. I recall the ideal noise floor of an LP being in the -65 dB below nominal 0 range, with audio audible at least 10 db further into the floor. Unlike digital you can exceed nominal 0 by yet another ~10 db (?) before the stylus jumps the groove, so the total range I suspect more than the brickwall/absolute 66 dB dynamic range of 11 bit. Maybe 12 or 13. ;)
Welcome to the new Slashdot Alan, where agreeing with an opinion trumps technical literacy every time.
It makes no sense to talk about audio quality by comparing performances. And your premise is plainly incorrect. Some of the highest quality classical recordings ever made are recent. The reason very early classical recordings are so prized, beside the performances, is the recordings were made with at most 2 or 3 microphones and authentically capture the sound of the recording venue. Great sound on an artistic level, limited only by the state of the art film or tape recorders of the era. Ironically DG, though they denied it vehemently, was one of the first labels to use level compression and pop-style microphone techniques on classical recordings, putting an end to the first Golden Age.
Check the Naxos website. Norbert Craft, Victor Villadangos, young competition winners, a wide selection of South American composers, this is the way it should be done, new and relatively unknown artists and music at a fair price. It's not uncommon to find Naxos CDs at bookstores up here. What you described is exactly the lazy, unthinking, control-based model the RIAA slugs have fought to legislate into place for most of my life for their sole benefit and at the expense of music and musicians. Let them die.
Why hasn't this already happened then? How will a injection of new network funds and resources, including the benefit of cross-media promotion, hasten the already non-existant rush from core dailies to free-at-the-Starbucks independents? Wishful thinking.
As an electrical engineer I also know tubes circuits can be designed with flat responses well beyond human audibility (hence, tube radios and transmitters) and that DSP isn't typically used to alter frequency response. Oh, and tube filaments keep glowing long after a tube's gain has collapsed. Some of the advantages you list are correct, supposedly the Soviets until recently used tubes in some critical circuits of their fighter planes. They also continued development in the field long after the Western world went silicon, originating some of the premier examples of the technology. To answer your question, assuming the tube circuit wasn't intentionally designed for audible distortion (by no means necessary), no one knows why, or even agrees on the 'if'.
I have a 45 year old amp on a shelf with distortion figures bettering any scientifically proven metric for audibility at normal listening levels. The distortion argument became invalid with the introduction of the Williamson circuit (a very long time ago.)
The conspiracy is much older than that. Look at a Stradivarius violin or a Steinway Grand, play-o-phools continue to spend small fortunes on these musical instruments with no scientific justification. The same sound, guitars and amps included, can be had at any corner music or pawn shop for a fraction of the price. The world's going hell.
Harper's always been a prick and in the pocket of the Americans. He sold out the softwood lumber trade, arbitrarily and unilateraly tossing a carefully crafted agreement with the US out the window and handing over money to American business interests rightfully belonging to wronged Canadian companies. Just like he's tossing us to the American media cartels. He's so intent on 'righting' relations he may as well be in Bush's pants. Don't even start on his 'alignment' with American defense and security interests. The election can't come soon enough, hopefully before he wrecks us for generations.
Following in daddy's proud tradition of naming his Panama invasion Operation "Just Cause".
You hit on what so many miss by not thinking past the limited context maintained by media cartels to the larger principles involved. At its base artists and writers feel entitled to a portion of any income that makes use of their works. Sounds reasonable but it begs the question, why just the arts? Truly important works, works which literally changed the face of society beyond recognition, have been created by scientists and engineers for generations. They are infinitely more important to society's health and yet most, Shockley for example, never see returns greater than the most forgettable and transitory media darling. Songwriters would scream blue murder if forced to pay back a percentage of their earnings to Intel, Logitech and Samsung for use of the engineering IP in creating their works yet see no conflict in chasing taxi companies and restaurants for playing a radio. Until they demand to reimburse society for taking from the common weal of sentence structures, forms of literature, words and phrases to lock into their 'IP', it's hypocritical opportunism and an unquestionable corruption of copyright's intent.
Call me nuts, but computers can filter better than the clowns shoving recent popular acts down our throats. I find the music I like via socially driven and filtered avenues such as Usenet, not the Billboard 100.
Harper makes no bones about being Bush's 'Mini-me'. Almost his first act was to trash years of careful negotiations over the Can/US softwood lumber debate and literally take hundreds of millions of agreed repartitions from his citizens and hand them to the States. He's the worst kind of craven, slavish power worshiper and his ilk will do generations of damage to Canada before they're ousted.
Everyone's holding out on the hope it's the 'Vista Me' of this particluar Windows line.
Reduced to defending KISS on Slashdot is the highlight of my day, but this band starved the first few years and sacrificed everything for FAME and GROUPIES. I work with a former uber-fan/Kiss Army member from the music industry and the stories are fascinating. It wasn't until well after 'Alive' or 'Destroyer', with the end of the gravy train looming into view, that MONEY took primacy. For a band with 35 years behind them the golden days were short lived true, but they did happen. And while the music won't last they worked their asses off on the early tours and kicked out one hell of a show. One of my all time favourite concerts was Kiss at Cobo Hall/Detroit (some of which ended up on Alive 1.)
He invented matresses: http://www.simmons.com/
No. Though I very much want to see a few select neocons swing for treason, it was the legislative excesses of Clinton's 'War on Drugs' which laid the groundwork for abuses like the Patriot Act. When the ends justify the means, the means become available as tools for any end.
No man. Currently a renaissance is underway courtesy of Chinese production. Adjusted for inflation quality tube gear has probably never been cheaper. Truth is some UL-approved (some isn't, don't use it wet) quality gear - Prima Luna for example - costs less on in today's dollars than the original MSRP of midline Seventies solid state gear. Certainly you can spend insane money but it's in no way necessary.