They pay the service provider for providing the service of the "cable." The commercials pay the channels which provide content, they don't get paid by cable fees. With this AIM service, they'd pay for the service, and then the ads would also pay the service, which is more closely related to, say, magazine or newspaper ads, which do lower the cost to the reader.
A good question is whether or not it is actually bending the truth. Think for a moment, what is better for you ( universal you ) the paid programmer frightened of outsourcing or what-not, commercial or free software? closed or opened? There is a interesting if not valid point hidden in the propaganda, you just need to deal with that point.
Can you really cite that as a good source? The list is not only horrible ( Pulp Fiction not even a top 100 movie, Trainspotting, perhaps one of the most influential films of the 90's, Apocalypse Now after the Bridge of the River Kwai?) but great hypocrisy, many of the people asked are the same people who handed Sound of Music(#55) the Academy over Dr. Strangelove (#26) and Dr. Zhivago (#39) The American Film institute is pretentious and holds personal grudges long after people have died (Citizen Kane only within the last 30 years gained any sort of praise from these people, who now rank it as #1.)
AIDS is when you have contracted HIV and have been infected by an AID-O disease, a disease which can only infect people with HIV. These diseases will kill the patient, and these diseases are the only difference between HIV and AIDS.
It's difficult to keep a cease-fire with these "innocent" people. Regardless of the basis for the war, there is no reason that it should involve any stories such as that. None of those civilians are innocent.
AAC does not *use* DRM, it is simply DRM capable. True, AAC files off of ITMS will have DRM. But, AAC files ripped off of CD's that you own will not have any DRM.
who are drinking and worse, these children need help.
What? By children, do you mean anyone under the age of 21? I wouldn't say that those 'children' need help especially unwanted help.
You're also supporting racketeering, extortion, and harassment.
America is a country based on 5 things... guns, freedom, racketeering, extortion, and harassment. Anything I pay for supports those and I'm not about to abandone cosumerism, what else can fill that void in my life?
That's stupid, there is always good music, and always bad poppy corporate crap... In fact, good music tends to be cheaper. Don't say you steal music because you don't like the music, it's because you are either lazy or cheap.
You make it sound as if artists had no way besides CD-sales to make money...
Ever heard of a live show? ( yes they make significant amounts of money at these shows ) Or say, advertisements ( songs for movies? the band is going to get promotion money )
Big Bands (i.e. you can find them easily at your local Barne's & Noble) can get plenty of money. And smaller bands, well they wouldn't be making much money anyways AND they tend to be signed to smaller, friendlier, non-RIAA record labels.
I would and could say a lot of things about the recording industry, but trying to say that artists are starving is not one of them.
Why in the world is this rated as troll? Simply because he is supporting legally obtaining music? I personally buy CD's because I feel that not only I am within the law and benefitting (however slightly) the band, but that CD's have so many benefits (i.e. sound quality) over MP3s.
Wait, are you complaing about having to restart your browser every day or two? I mean, there is very little reason that a browser should be open for longer than a day...
The accepted difference between M4A (AAC) and MP3 is 70%, making 160 AAC ~= 228 MP3, which is slightly subpar. Since I have a 40 GB iPod, 256 AAC seemed to be the best idea, since most people encode 256 MP3 anyhow.Barring nitpicking audio, 192 AAC is usually the point at which the quality is most efficient... Here are some listening tests Here
CD's suffer from what is called digitalysis, as a result of the sampling rate, the highs and lows become unsycned, or something like that... much better explained here...
Look at the Background section
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particle man or particle, man?
If the second one, then I'm glad you have good taste in music- Particle rocks!
I am under the understanding the no two pieces of data have the same md5 sum, please correct me if I am wrong
instead of RTFA'ing
Oh god, how that makes me laugh, that's hilarious....
They pay the service provider for providing the service of the "cable." The commercials pay the channels which provide content, they don't get paid by cable fees. With this AIM service, they'd pay for the service, and then the ads would also pay the service, which is more closely related to, say, magazine or newspaper ads, which do lower the cost to the reader.
.357 Magnum
Easy enough to conceal, and tends to get "the job" done.
then ergo ipso
Stop Making an ass of yourself, by making up phrases in a "dead" language.
Ergo basically means "therefore"
ipso means "itself"
"Then therefore itself" - Great SENTENCE!
Did you want ipso facto maybe? or just ergo?
A good question is whether or not it is actually bending the truth. Think for a moment, what is better for you ( universal you ) the paid programmer frightened of outsourcing or what-not, commercial or free software? closed or opened? There is a interesting if not valid point hidden in the propaganda, you just need to deal with that point.
Can you really cite that as a good source?
The list is not only horrible ( Pulp Fiction not even a top 100 movie, Trainspotting, perhaps one of the most influential films of the 90's, Apocalypse Now after the Bridge of the River Kwai?) but great hypocrisy, many of the people asked are the same people who handed Sound of Music(#55) the Academy over Dr. Strangelove (#26) and Dr. Zhivago (#39)
The American Film institute is pretentious and holds personal grudges long after people have died (Citizen Kane only within the last 30 years gained any sort of praise from these people, who now rank it as #1.)
AIDS is when you have contracted HIV and have been infected by an AID-O disease, a disease which can only infect people with HIV. These diseases will kill the patient, and these diseases are the only difference between HIV and AIDS.
Sky&Tele: Hey, uh Mike
SysAdmin: Ya?
Sky&Tele: See, we have this little problem....
SysAdmin: How bad could it possibl...well, damn.
Are you sure that we are talking about the same innocent iraqi civilians?
It's difficult to keep a cease-fire with these "innocent" people. Regardless of the basis for the war, there is no reason that it should involve any stories such as that. None of those civilians are innocent.
Their proprietary music format uses DRM.
AAC does not *use* DRM, it is simply DRM capable. True, AAC files off of ITMS will have DRM. But, AAC files ripped off of CD's that you own will not have any DRM.
who are drinking and worse, these children need help.
What? By children, do you mean anyone under the age of 21?
I wouldn't say that those 'children' need help especially unwanted help.
You're also supporting racketeering, extortion, and harassment.
America is a country based on 5 things... guns, freedom, racketeering, extortion, and harassment. Anything I pay for supports those and I'm not about to abandone cosumerism, what else can fill that void in my life?
Perhaps they could make better albums.
That's stupid, there is always good music, and always bad poppy corporate crap...
In fact, good music tends to be cheaper. Don't say you steal music because you don't like the music, it's because you are either lazy or cheap.
You make it sound as if artists had no way besides CD-sales to make money...
Ever heard of a live show? ( yes they make significant amounts of money at these shows )
Or say, advertisements ( songs for movies? the band is going to get promotion money )
Big Bands (i.e. you can find them easily at your local Barne's & Noble) can get plenty of money. And smaller bands, well they wouldn't be making much money anyways AND they tend to be signed to smaller, friendlier, non-RIAA record labels.
I would and could say a lot of things about the recording industry, but trying to say that artists are starving is not one of them.
Why in the world is this rated as troll?
Simply because he is supporting legally obtaining music?
I personally buy CD's because I feel that not only I am within the law and benefitting (however slightly) the band, but that CD's have so many benefits (i.e. sound quality) over MP3s.
Funny you mention this...
Because I would think this is the number one reason that open source and linux WILL NOT boom.
Think, if Microsoft didn't exist, what would be holding Open Source back?
Wait, are you complaing about having to restart your browser every day or two?
I mean, there is very little reason that a browser should be open for longer than a day...
The accepted difference between M4A (AAC) and MP3 is 70%, making 160 AAC ~= 228 MP3, which is slightly subpar. Since I have a 40 GB iPod, 256 AAC seemed to be the best idea, since most people encode 256 MP3 anyhow. Barring nitpicking audio, 192 AAC is usually the point at which the quality is most efficient... Here are some listening tests Here
CD's suffer from what is called digitalysis, as a result of the sampling rate, the highs and lows become unsycned, or something like that... much better explained here...
Look at the Background section
...Rewrite all my coin toss programs.
Awesome! Now that Mozilla has tabbed browsing, I can open all twelve pictures at once...
And this is better for his server, right?
...put your wedding pictures in a folder called wedding pictures
ah, yes, the red-headed stepchild of the conjecture family - Collatz!
People have been going at Collatz Conjecture For Years, and maybe this recluse is giving that a swing next time.
For Information regarding Collatz Conjecture seek The Collatz Conjecture