Well, when my car was broken into, the first question the cops asked was "was your door locked?" When I said no, they shrugged and left. The insurance company said, "was your door locked?" When I (foolishly) replied that it wasn't, they refused to pay. Your analogy is specious, but I'm kidna wondering if you weren't being sarcastic in the first place, just by your first sentence...
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is the exact same sceme RIAA tried with casettes. They were *convinced* casettes would *doom* the music industry from people making mixtapes (oh no, a whole 90 minutes of *good music*! we can't let them get used to that, they'll expect to to sign artists that are actually *good*...) It took an *act of Congress* to make casettes and casette recorders legal under fair use. Call me crazy, but the music industry wasn't crippled. In fact, despite the best efforts of tape-trading clubs (remember those?) pop-music consumer just get dumber and dumber.
But I digress. The point is that the only thing that will stop the RIAA from consolidating their already considerable monopoly on pop music production and distribution is a hue and cry from the public sufficient to attract the attention of our elected representatives.
Or, failing that, file-sharing so that we can actually hear *good music* again, while simultaneously demonstrating through a free (albeit black) market that there is a consumer base for said good music.
K folks, I've juse gotta point out that maybe the reason they're shooting at the red cross is... oh, I don't know, maybe THE GIANT *CROSS* PAINTED ON THE SIDES OF THEIR VEHICLES. Duh. everybody is so blinded by their own opinions nobody stops to think how they'd react if a bunch of vans with "SATAN" painted on the side came down *their* street. If you can't stand the heat you might want to think about removing your snowpants, long johns, and sweatgear, as those things only attract heat to you (not to mention maybe even leaving the kitchen).
Wasn't DVD the same story? They said nobody would ever break , I think 128 bit crypto. They said it would take thousands of years. It took six months.
If it is digital, it can be hacked. The fundamental mistake MPAA/RIAA made was deciding to convert physical product, an object you go in the store and buy, into a stream of numbers. Anybody can copy down numbers (ask any dishonest 6th grader taking a math test), and anybody's computer can too. If you don't want people to copy your product, make your product a physical, analog entity in a physical, analog retail store.
but they wanted us to re-buy our record and tape collections, so they opened Pandora's box and went digital. The rest is history.
He just said it didn't. He said they were both traditions. And he has a very good point. Forget slavery. In Africa nine-year-old girls have their genitals mutilated. Why? It's tradition! In India, if you are born into the wrong caste your life will be shit forever. Why? It's tradition! His point was that tradition is not a valid excuse for poor behavior. The question of whether or not the flag pledge as it stands constitutes poor behavior was *not* the issue. Get it now?
And if you take the position that athiests do not have a right to not see the word god, then it follows that conservative fuckwads don't have the right to not see the word "fuckwad", or to see a half-naked hooker on the corner, or movies they think promote poor values, or (here's a thought) to listen to people with dissenting opinions (in America? Shocking!) Leave the movie if you don't like it. If you don't like what she's wearing then don't look at her. If you don't like the book stop reading it.
If you don't believe in God, don't involve him in any pledges you make, national or otherwise. When I didn't believe in God I didn't use those words in the pledge. I just didn't say them. NOBODY NOTICED. Now that I do believe, I say those words, and will continue to no matter what the Supreme Court says (maybe there's a reason the pledge wasn't ever standardized until 1923. Maybe we *should* all have our own. What could be more American?). Believe it or not folks, we really don't all have to be clones of each other. The one thing America is about is the freedom to make your own choices about your own life. I don't know a conservative or liberal who would disagree. (Sure I'll find some tho!)
"Audiophile quality" and "walkman" are mutually exclusive, folks. If that ipod, oh wait I'm sorry, that $400 ipod, can reproduce the full frequency spectrum within 1dB under *any* load I'll retract my statement. Convenient? Yes. Audiophile-quality? Not even close. And AIFF's sound good because, just like.wav files, they usually utilize the PCM codec. Nothing to do with the player. sorry to burst anybody's happy little Apple-flavored bubble.
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Jeez... OK, answer me this, if MP3's have the same audio quality as CD's, why aren't CD's released in MP3 format, containing 10X the number of songs? Why does the professional audio industry adhere to that clunky old PCM standard?
Because it's better! Anybody who thinks MP3 audio quality is as good as PCM is invited to investigate the following terms: "lossy compression", "artifacts", "full frequency spectrum". If MP3 were something for nothing it would be the ligua franca of digital music. And as quick as it's catching on, it's not anywhere near as ubiquitous as PCM is, and it never will be.
What's that, you ask? If there's a significant quality loss copying from a CD to an MP3 file, you ask, how is that any different from making a casette copy? I'm glad you asked! It's not!
So, just to review, because this myth seems like it's everywhere:
PCM: Used in CD's, pro-audio recording systems, DVD's, sampling keyboards. Very good audio quality, zero-loss codec. Very large files.
MP3: Used in, well, MP3 players and computers. And now some video games and phone voicemail systems. And radio stations too cheap to pay human beings to work there. Lossy compression. Very average quality. Very small files.
From this day forth, let none speak of the equality of MP3 and PCM on pain of, well, another lecture!
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Well, when my car was broken into, the first question the cops asked was "was your door locked?" When I said no, they shrugged and left. The insurance company said, "was your door locked?" When I (foolishly) replied that it wasn't, they refused to pay. Your analogy is specious, but I'm kidna wondering if you weren't being sarcastic in the first place, just by your first sentence...
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is the exact same sceme RIAA tried with casettes. They were *convinced* casettes would *doom* the music industry from people making mixtapes (oh no, a whole 90 minutes of *good music*! we can't let them get used to that, they'll expect to to sign artists that are actually *good*...) It took an *act of Congress* to make casettes and casette recorders legal under fair use. Call me crazy, but the music industry wasn't crippled. In fact, despite the best efforts of tape-trading clubs (remember those?) pop-music consumer just get dumber and dumber.
But I digress. The point is that the only thing that will stop the RIAA from consolidating their already considerable monopoly on pop music production and distribution is a hue and cry from the public sufficient to attract the attention of our elected representatives.
Or, failing that, file-sharing so that we can actually hear *good music* again, while simultaneously demonstrating through a free (albeit black) market that there is a consumer base for said good music.
when they stopped manufacturing LP's and casettes and started manufacturing CD's.
Yeah, that and half a million people's votes...
Funny, I've always heard the Red Cross and Red Crescent referred to separately, I figured they were two distinct entities... I stand corrected.
K folks, I've juse gotta point out that maybe the reason they're shooting at the red cross is... oh, I don't know, maybe THE GIANT *CROSS* PAINTED ON THE SIDES OF THEIR VEHICLES. Duh. everybody is so blinded by their own opinions nobody stops to think how they'd react if a bunch of vans with "SATAN" painted on the side came down *their* street. If you can't stand the heat you might want to think about removing your snowpants, long johns, and sweatgear, as those things only attract heat to you (not to mention maybe even leaving the kitchen).
Wasn't DVD the same story? They said nobody would ever break , I think 128 bit crypto. They said it would take thousands of years. It took six months.
If it is digital, it can be hacked. The fundamental mistake MPAA/RIAA made was deciding to convert physical product, an object you go in the store and buy, into a stream of numbers. Anybody can copy down numbers (ask any dishonest 6th grader taking a math test), and anybody's computer can too. If you don't want people to copy your product, make your product a physical, analog entity in a physical, analog retail store.
but they wanted us to re-buy our record and tape collections, so they opened Pandora's box and went digital. The rest is history.
actually, according to law, it's specifically forbidden to use SS card for ID purposes.
He just said it didn't. He said they were both traditions. And he has a very good point. Forget slavery. In Africa nine-year-old girls have their genitals mutilated. Why? It's tradition! In India, if you are born into the wrong caste your life will be shit forever. Why? It's tradition! His point was that tradition is not a valid excuse for poor behavior. The question of whether or not the flag pledge as it stands constitutes poor behavior was *not* the issue. Get it now?
And if you take the position that athiests do not have a right to not see the word god, then it follows that conservative fuckwads don't have the right to not see the word "fuckwad", or to see a half-naked hooker on the corner, or movies they think promote poor values, or (here's a thought) to listen to people with dissenting opinions (in America? Shocking!) Leave the movie if you don't like it. If you don't like what she's wearing then don't look at her. If you don't like the book stop reading it.
If you don't believe in God, don't involve him in any pledges you make, national or otherwise. When I didn't believe in God I didn't use those words in the pledge. I just didn't say them. NOBODY NOTICED. Now that I do believe, I say those words, and will continue to no matter what the Supreme Court says (maybe there's a reason the pledge wasn't ever standardized until 1923. Maybe we *should* all have our own. What could be more American?). Believe it or not folks, we really don't all have to be clones of each other. The one thing America is about is the freedom to make your own choices about your own life. I don't know a conservative or liberal who would disagree. (Sure I'll find some tho!)
or even tubes sticking out the top, Or an inch of laquer over the housing. *sheesh!*
"Audiophile quality" and "walkman" are mutually exclusive, folks. If that ipod, oh wait I'm sorry, that $400 ipod, can reproduce the full frequency spectrum within 1dB under *any* load I'll retract my statement. Convenient? Yes. Audiophile-quality? Not even close. And AIFF's sound good because, just like .wav files, they usually utilize the PCM codec. Nothing to do with the player. sorry to burst anybody's happy little Apple-flavored bubble.
Jeez... OK, answer me this, if MP3's have the same audio quality as CD's, why aren't CD's released in MP3 format, containing 10X the number of songs? Why does the professional audio industry adhere to that clunky old PCM standard?
Because it's better! Anybody who thinks MP3 audio quality is as good as PCM is invited to investigate the following terms: "lossy compression", "artifacts", "full frequency spectrum". If MP3 were something for nothing it would be the ligua franca of digital music. And as quick as it's catching on, it's not anywhere near as ubiquitous as PCM is, and it never will be.
What's that, you ask? If there's a significant quality loss copying from a CD to an MP3 file, you ask, how is that any different from making a casette copy? I'm glad you asked! It's not!
So, just to review, because this myth seems like it's everywhere:
PCM: Used in CD's, pro-audio recording systems, DVD's, sampling keyboards. Very good audio quality, zero-loss codec. Very large files.
MP3: Used in, well, MP3 players and computers. And now some video games and phone voicemail systems. And radio stations too cheap to pay human beings to work there. Lossy compression. Very average quality. Very small files.
From this day forth, let none speak of the equality of MP3 and PCM on pain of, well, another lecture!