From the AP - from http://www.iht.com/articles/520593.html
Done in by disputes over language and liability, European Union governments on Tuesday killed a proposal for an EU-wide patent that was a crucial part of a drive to cut costs for companies and make European businesses more competitive. . But ministers from the 25 EU countries did reach an initial agreement on a directive backed by big European high-tech companies that would allow software that is part of a mechanical device - like a mobile phone - to be patented. . What they approved on Tuesday omits amendments added last year by the European Parliament, largely supported by smaller businesses and advocates of "open source" software, setting the stage for a showdown in conciliation this autumn. . It was not immediately clear what would happen now to the EU-wide patent idea. An Irish spokeswoman said it would be up to the European Commission to decide whether to draft a new proposal. A commission spokesman said no decision had yet been made. . (AP)
why not create an alternative music business together with unknown artists? i just had an idea of a new promotion method - the permanent listening test... i posted it here
i'm quite impressed by the tool you created! when i saw the slashdot post, i thought that's gonna be lots of fun.
i tried it out immediately, figured out what codecs, thought - hmm creating ogg files with the default ogg-lib instead of the optimized one you mentioned in the readme - that's a pitty... is that same preconditions for all...? well, in fact, different preconditions are okay, since the sound reality is also different everywhere.
having started a bit with bartok, debussy and chan chan remix, which i all found quite annoying for the middle of the night, i soon realized that it's not easy to hear a difference between the original and encoded files. thinking how to increase the quality, i remember that i use oss on my new debian box since my soundcard is broken in alsa in unstable. shit, where do i get an old package without building from source... or is even jack worse a try for a listening test, or doesn't that affect the playback...?
listening tests are really fun (and interesting by the way), but it would be much cooler to hear good, chilly music while doing that. therefore i propose to create an enduring test out of it! my idea is to create a database which is permanently fed with inputs from users, sometimes new samples, mostly listening reports. a web application collects this inputs, creates the ecf etc. files out of the uploaded flac-file and creates current results in a cron job. your application could be bound in a java-applet (though, do we have permissions from there to write or read on the hard drive...?), or even written as a mozilla application (say an extension...) using xul & co. that would be really cool. the web service on server side could be done in zope, perfectly.
hm... it would be really cool to do a listening test with sigur ros,
radiohead idioteque, tryo or pink floyd - with music i really like to spend my time with!
what do you think?
greetings from sweden,
nico
p.s. is copyright a problem if we always only take a part (half / 10 % / 30 s) of the song? if so, we can always ask the band (or the music company...) - that's also sort of promoting for them. they could even submit us the album cover, so we can display it in the mozilla application... let's try to change the existing music business structure - promoting is done via listening tests today...
The "Watch out how our system works" movies shows the LCD meanwhile hearing a chord. It looks good, but what you see is not what your hear! You hear the chords shown on the LCD always with a delay of 10s, so you hear a different chord than you see...
I think like that they won't get any professional musicians buying that thing. Although it's cool!
Slashdot Mirror
there's no need to read this article!
This gives me a good feeling for the night! Maybe interesting to think about!
just click on the 3%-speed-increase link in the original post...
We'd thank you, Sun!
Java will be in good hands!
From the AP - from http://www.iht.com/articles/520593.html
Done in by disputes over language and liability, European Union governments on Tuesday killed a proposal for an EU-wide patent that was a crucial part of a drive to cut costs for companies and make European businesses more competitive.
.
But ministers from the 25 EU countries did reach an initial agreement on a directive backed by big European high-tech companies that would allow software that is part of a mechanical device - like a mobile phone - to be patented.
.
What they approved on Tuesday omits amendments added last year by the European Parliament, largely supported by smaller businesses and advocates of "open source" software, setting the stage for a showdown in conciliation this autumn.
.
It was not immediately clear what would happen now to the EU-wide patent idea. An Irish spokeswoman said it would be up to the European Commission to decide whether to draft a new proposal. A commission spokesman said no decision had yet been made.
.
(AP)
why not create an alternative music business together with unknown artists? i just had an idea of a new promotion method - the permanent listening test... i posted it here
nico
dear roberto,
i'm quite impressed by the tool you created! when i saw the slashdot post, i thought that's gonna be lots of fun.
i tried it out immediately, figured out what codecs, thought - hmm creating ogg files with the default ogg-lib instead of the optimized one you mentioned in the readme - that's a pitty... is that same preconditions for all...? well, in fact, different preconditions are okay, since the sound reality is also different everywhere. having started a bit with bartok, debussy and chan chan remix, which i all found quite annoying for the middle of the night, i soon realized that it's not easy to hear a difference between the original and encoded files. thinking how to increase the quality, i remember that i use oss on my new debian box since my soundcard is broken in alsa in unstable. shit, where do i get an old package without building from source... or is even jack worse a try for a listening test, or doesn't that affect the playback...?
listening tests are really fun (and interesting by the way), but it would be much cooler to hear good, chilly music while doing that. therefore i propose to create an enduring test out of it! my idea is to create a database which is permanently fed with inputs from users, sometimes new samples, mostly listening reports. a web application collects this inputs, creates the ecf etc. files out of the uploaded flac-file and creates current results in a cron job. your application could be bound in a java-applet (though, do we have permissions from there to write or read on the hard drive...?), or even written as a mozilla application (say an extension...) using xul & co. that would be really cool. the web service on server side could be done in zope, perfectly.
hm... it would be really cool to do a listening test with sigur ros, radiohead idioteque, tryo or pink floyd - with music i really like to spend my time with!
what do you think?
greetings from sweden,
nico
p.s. is copyright a problem if we always only take a part (half / 10 % / 30 s) of the song? if so, we can always ask the band (or the music company...) - that's also sort of promoting for them. they could even submit us the album cover, so we can display it in the mozilla application... let's try to change the existing music business structure - promoting is done via listening tests today...
> seems even at 6:30 am the site is getting slashdotted but, for one, i like it.
there are not only americans reading slashdot!
greetings from sweden (1:30pm),
nico
but yinx must stand for: yinx is not xwindows
their promotion material sucks.
The "Watch out how our system works" movies shows the LCD meanwhile hearing a chord. It looks good, but what you see is not what your hear! You hear the chords shown on the LCD always with a delay of 10s, so you hear a different chord than you see...
I think like that they won't get any professional musicians buying that thing. Although it's cool!