Actually, most of the CDs from that era sound horrible...digital mastering has come a long way since then, as has playback equipment. A disc from 2001 is going to sound much better than one from the late 80's.
All easily defeated, either with a pitch shifter to defeat the pattern recognition (just a few cents change would do it, while sounding the same to most folks), or, for the "invisible watermark" (which was put into "consumer level" DAT machines) a simple change in EQ will defeat it.
If it can be played through a speaker, it can be copied. The end.
No doubt. Cassette tape was going to kill the recording industry and bankrupt the helpless artists.
Of course, it didn't happen.
I do take issue with one thing: my home recordings, especially after the introduction of chromium dioxide (CrO2) tape, beat the shit out of any storebought cassette, and I'd say beats the quality of any mp3 under 192kbps today.
Doesn't matter. It still didn't kill the recording industry, sadly.
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1. No, bathing probes in radiation is not enough to sterilize them, unfortunately.
2. NASA's planning on sending back samples from space and from the surface of Mars. Better have a protocol and procedure by then!
Pay some now, pay much more later.
Here's one for your list - Microsoft's destruction of BeOS may be the most shameful of them all. $26 million dollars to put the closest thing to an OS competitor they ever had out of business. A small price to pay, to be sure.
Well, I built acoustic guitars for a living for many years, and how did we get the wood into those crazy shapes? Oh yeah...we bend the sides into those shapes. Like you could if you wanted to make a speaker, I guess.
And what magical chemical compound do we use to achieve this?
WATER.
I suppose you could use sake, but it's a waste of perfectly good liquor, not to mention that the alcohol will dry out the wood, making it somewhat more likely to crack. I'm assuming this was the problem with the wood cracking when using whisky.
Nice marketing, no science. Move along, nothing to see here.
Well, here's the awful truth. Frequently, I'll buy something from a site, and as part of that purchase they'll make the completely unrealistic demand that I agree to receive emails from anyone they deem fit to sell the address to, or maybe even just from themselves whenever they like.
But, I don't want these emails. Just the product, thanks. I know where to find them should I need more. But this sentiment is not respected. They want to maximize their sales at any cost, and damn my peace of mind.
Now, I do realize, fully, that I agreed to this condition as part of the purchase.
And, well, that's too bad. I'm sure I'll spend some time in hell roasting for it, but I have absolutely no intention of honoring that commitment. It's unrealistic to assume that anyone would want to do so. Be realistic, not idealistic, I say.
So, I report the unwanted mails as spam. Every time. And, in all seriousness, I hope it causes them a tremendous amount of expense and hassle to resolve it. If they have to do this enough times, perhaps they'll think of a new method of doing business that doesn't piss off their customers so much.
Remember, for this is what business still lives and dies by: The customer is really always right.
If your customers report your "newsletters", "reminders", etc., as spam, they're not stupid, they're not doing it because of an "AOL design flaw" and they're not doing it by accident. They consider them as spam. You should respect the obvious message you're being sent, their clear message that you're to leave them alone, and take the proper and decent course of action. Stop sending these folks mail. If they want it, they'll tell you loud and clear.
Good luck. Business is not easy. Don't make it harder on yourself than you have to.
Also weighing in, and I couldn't agree more...Bush & Co. would take away your guns in a second, don't even kid yourself. The Constitution is, to them, just an impediment to their goals, to be circumvented as efficiently as possible.
Gun-owning liberal, that's me.
As part of 2G services and onward, in an effort to conserve maximum bandwidth, cell phones don't transmit during the time you're not talking. (Which is why you can get weird choppy-sounding conversations).
Background noise is synthesized at the receiving end based on random samples taken every few seconds at the transmitting end.
Easier to burden the receiver with the task of generating fake noise that burden the network with the transmissal of said noise.
I'm interested if this broadcasts the synthesized background full time from the transmitter...if so, it's going to kill the cell network capacity in areas where phones fitted with this are used.
Perhaps someone here can help me understand: it seems that requirements for the positions at Infinium posted on Craig's List are, well, odd.
The "Senior Software Engineer" only has to have a Bachelor's degree? Four years experience? Strange.
No mention of what test tools are to be used. This is bizarre. They vary somewhat, experience with one or another seems to be kind of, well, important.
What dev platform is to be employed? Seems you'd want your coders to be familiar with it. Maybe they feel that the uber-coders with 3 years experience they're hiring will be competent and churn out perfect code with any or all of them.
Software Program Manager performing systems engineering duties? Peculiar.
This all strikes me as somewhat odd, certainly like nothing I've seen in my dev experience. Perhaps someone more enlightened than myself can grant me the benefit of their wisdom, for I am puzzled. Or geniunely retarded.
They sue Microsoft. Microsoft admits guilt, handing SCO a victory, a war chest to assault the GPL until kingdom come, and the all important "judicial precedent".
The parent poster was not wrong. Legal standards to claim a vehicle is "US made" mandate a 70% domestic parts content. Read the post carefully before asking for it to be censored.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but there is no way, even if you were the greatest programmer on earth, that I would hire you as a coder. You can neither write nor spell. And you better believe that it counts.
Easy for someone to say who lives in his mom's basement.
For those of us WITH jobs, well, the guy can do what he wants, but I'm not sitting through a musical with taped parts. What a joke.
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We, the public, will benefit greatly in the long run with the increased competition. The more companies doing this, the better.
And when the time comes, I'll be ready to take a flight.
Actually, most of the CDs from that era sound horrible...digital mastering has come a long way since then, as has playback equipment. A disc from 2001 is going to sound much better than one from the late 80's.
Just grateful that someone, anyone, is trying to defend the rights of the individual nowadays. Doesn't seem to be in vouge anymore.
Thank you, EFF!
Everyone should read this.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Yeah, those poor record companies. Legal theft is a hard way to live.
All easily defeated, either with a pitch shifter to defeat the pattern recognition (just a few cents change would do it, while sounding the same to most folks), or, for the "invisible watermark" (which was put into "consumer level" DAT machines) a simple change in EQ will defeat it.
If it can be played through a speaker, it can be copied. The end.
No doubt. Cassette tape was going to kill the recording industry and bankrupt the helpless artists.
Of course, it didn't happen.
I do take issue with one thing: my home recordings, especially after the introduction of chromium dioxide (CrO2) tape, beat the shit out of any storebought cassette, and I'd say beats the quality of any mp3 under 192kbps today.
Doesn't matter. It still didn't kill the recording industry, sadly.
1. No, bathing probes in radiation is not enough to sterilize them, unfortunately. 2. NASA's planning on sending back samples from space and from the surface of Mars. Better have a protocol and procedure by then! Pay some now, pay much more later.
I'm a die-hard, left-wing pacifist, who loathes what our government has done...but what the hell does this have to do with Linux?
This guy is an idiot.
Here's one for your list - Microsoft's destruction of BeOS may be the most shameful of them all. $26 million dollars to put the closest thing to an OS competitor they ever had out of business. A small price to pay, to be sure.
Well, I built acoustic guitars for a living for many years, and how did we get the wood into those crazy shapes? Oh yeah...we bend the sides into those shapes. Like you could if you wanted to make a speaker, I guess.
And what magical chemical compound do we use to achieve this?
WATER.
I suppose you could use sake, but it's a waste of perfectly good liquor, not to mention that the alcohol will dry out the wood, making it somewhat more likely to crack. I'm assuming this was the problem with the wood cracking when using whisky.
Nice marketing, no science. Move along, nothing to see here.
Well, here's the awful truth. Frequently, I'll buy something from a site, and as part of that purchase they'll make the completely unrealistic demand that I agree to receive emails from anyone they deem fit to sell the address to, or maybe even just from themselves whenever they like.
But, I don't want these emails. Just the product, thanks. I know where to find them should I need more. But this sentiment is not respected. They want to maximize their sales at any cost, and damn my peace of mind.
Now, I do realize, fully, that I agreed to this condition as part of the purchase.
And, well, that's too bad. I'm sure I'll spend some time in hell roasting for it, but I have absolutely no intention of honoring that commitment. It's unrealistic to assume that anyone would want to do so. Be realistic, not idealistic, I say.
So, I report the unwanted mails as spam. Every time. And, in all seriousness, I hope it causes them a tremendous amount of expense and hassle to resolve it. If they have to do this enough times, perhaps they'll think of a new method of doing business that doesn't piss off their customers so much.
Remember, for this is what business still lives and dies by: The customer is really always right.
If your customers report your "newsletters", "reminders", etc., as spam, they're not stupid, they're not doing it because of an "AOL design flaw" and they're not doing it by accident. They consider them as spam. You should respect the obvious message you're being sent, their clear message that you're to leave them alone, and take the proper and decent course of action. Stop sending these folks mail. If they want it, they'll tell you loud and clear.
Good luck. Business is not easy. Don't make it harder on yourself than you have to.
Also weighing in, and I couldn't agree more...Bush & Co. would take away your guns in a second, don't even kid yourself. The Constitution is, to them, just an impediment to their goals, to be circumvented as efficiently as possible. Gun-owning liberal, that's me.
As part of 2G services and onward, in an effort to conserve maximum bandwidth, cell phones don't transmit during the time you're not talking. (Which is why you can get weird choppy-sounding conversations).
Background noise is synthesized at the receiving end based on random samples taken every few seconds at the transmitting end.
Easier to burden the receiver with the task of generating fake noise that burden the network with the transmissal of said noise.
I'm interested if this broadcasts the synthesized background full time from the transmitter...if so, it's going to kill the cell network capacity in areas where phones fitted with this are used.
Yes, and someone (Red Hat, IBM, AutoZone) should. Why no one has is utterly beyond me.
Perhaps someone here can help me understand: it seems that requirements for the positions at Infinium posted on Craig's List are, well, odd.
The "Senior Software Engineer" only has to have a Bachelor's degree? Four years experience? Strange.
No mention of what test tools are to be used. This is bizarre. They vary somewhat, experience with one or another seems to be kind of, well, important.
What dev platform is to be employed? Seems you'd want your coders to be familiar with it. Maybe they feel that the uber-coders with 3 years experience they're hiring will be competent and churn out perfect code with any or all of them.
Software Program Manager performing systems engineering duties? Peculiar.
This all strikes me as somewhat odd, certainly like nothing I've seen in my dev experience. Perhaps someone more enlightened than myself can grant me the benefit of their wisdom, for I am puzzled. Or geniunely retarded.
Longshot, but I'll bet this is how it plays:
Fortune 1000? SCO licensee?
They sue Microsoft.
Microsoft admits guilt, handing SCO a victory, a war chest to assault the GPL until kingdom come, and the all important "judicial precedent".
Bets, anybody?
My .45 ACP jammed into the nostrils of the keyholder will work every time.
The parent poster was not wrong. Legal standards to claim a vehicle is "US made" mandate a 70% domestic parts content. Read the post carefully before asking for it to be censored.
Goddamn right he deserves prison. He was warned, did it anyway. Fuck him.
But what I REALLY want is that they could imprison the goatse.cx guys too. Fuckers deserve it, for exactly the same reasons as the parent article.
I expect to be the victim of constant trolling now. Fuck you too, trolls. I'm sick of your shit that you spray all over this site. Fire away.
Excellent info, thank you for posting this. For once, on Salshdot, I have learned something from a post.
This commitment to the truth is, undoubtably, why you're posting as AC. If you had the balls to post with a username, well, I might listen.
:)
But, since you don't, I just won't listen
Only here only Slashdot, news for NERDS who don't know anything about sports. It's "bunt", not "punt". Fuck.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but there is no way, even if you were the greatest programmer on earth, that I would hire you as a coder. You can neither write nor spell. And you better believe that it counts.
Parent poster...so, which branch of DeBeers do you work for?
Easy for someone to say who lives in his mom's basement. For those of us WITH jobs, well, the guy can do what he wants, but I'm not sitting through a musical with taped parts. What a joke.