The name business was entirely due to a long running (years long) dispute with his record label and not due to any sort of identity crisis.
crisis: a time of intense difficulty or danger.
I consider the impending threat of life changing legal issues and difficulties created by preventing him from using his own name in official capacities to be a crisis. Regardless if it's self inflicted or not. If you don't, I guess we have a difference on opinion on what a crisis is.
So it's understandable that now folks are drawn away from quality performances to things like the kardashians, vine videos, and home-grown music & movies.
I wouldn't put myself in that category of people that digest low quality content. I have magazine subscriptions online, I have Netflix, Sky Go, Amazon Prime Video, Qobuz etc. which pretty much seem to feature only professional content. I think it's more likely he didn't make music along the type of music I frequently listen to. Electronic, chip tune (particularly from demoscene work), classical, metal, heavy rock, OST type works by people like Bear McCreary or Hans Zimmer etc.
As a purple singing, glamour dressed, basketball playing, drug taking, creative rockstar.... he would not stand out but rather just fit in.
Maybe, but I don't really listen to any artists for anything but their music. I really can't think of an musician that sticks out in my head for other reasons, but it might be because I don't really investigate much about people I listen to.
However, I did hear of him through news articles, I just never heard his music. It's entirely possible that is his fault since I can't even find it for streaming on Qobuz and it seems the videos on youtube are low quality camera recordings which to me suggests that he or his publisher worked very hard to not have an online presence. That could be the reason why I haven't heard his music and maybe the reason many others haven't.
I really don't know the technical reason behind this, however I am unable to get virtualdubmod to open the.mov files even after being renamed to.mp4. I am in other editors, but they also say they support QuickTime files too, so that isn't surprising.
I've never heard any of his music, so I wouldn't even know if he was any good at it.
I'm curious, Is offering an opinion on things you don't know about something you often do?
I'm not sure what you mean?
I looked at the rest of the comment and saw established knowledge like:
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Outside of that, the rest of my comment were questions that you failed to answer and instead ask a personal question, changing this thread into what seems to be an ad hominem attack. But, let's review the questions:
looks like he's got a licensing crisis too?
I've never had a scoring problem before with "hot babes" or "hot guys" before, is that just an issue for rock stars?
I guess they could be construed as opinions, but asking the question of licensing crisis regarding not being able to view one of his videos doesn't seem like it's unfounded. Then the next one referring to my personal experience with having fun with people that have nice bodies shows my opinion is based on personal experiences on the matter.
I would also add that since these were asked as part of open questions, it's quite clear I haven't simply decided to claim these opinions as very solid ones either.
Sorry, but I just don't really see what you're referring to. Perhaps you could clarify the opinion you're seeing I expressed on something that I had no knowledge about?
Prince was the opposite of someone with a "major identity crisis".
For someone to come out as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", I'd say they had an identity crisis and I don't even know the man. Whether or not the identity crisis is self inflicted or not is irrelevant.
Watch his solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and tell me if you think he looks like someone who has an identity crisis.
Looks like his video is blocked in my country, looks like he's got a licensing crisis too? Not that I can grasp how a performance could show someone doesn't have an identity crisis.
Prince was the ultimate musical nerd. He not only could play every instrument on his records, but could do all of it better than most people who play those instruments.
I've never heard any of his music, so I wouldn't even know if he was any good at it.
He was five foot goddamn four inches tall and still managed to be the Jesus of scoring hot babes.
I've never had a scoring problem before with "hot babes" or "hot guys" before, is that just an issue for rock stars?
"After the Trayvon Martin verdict I was talking to Prince and he said, 'You know, every time people see a young black man wearing a hoodie, they think, he's a thug. But if they see a young white guy wearing a hoodie they think, oh that might be Mark Zuckerberg. That might be a dot-com billionaire.'"
When I see people in hoodies, I think 'chav'. Doesn't matter what skin color.
I'm 31 and all I really know about the guy is that he continued doing music after getting out of a label deal and pretty much the online stuff mentioned in the article. I have never heard his music; but maybe that's because most of my life I didn't watch TV (or own one) or listen to broadcast radio. A lot of people seem to remember him fondly on the Internet for reasons unknown to me.
Maybe not "too dumb", but how can you possibly remember your PIN number if you have more than one different credit cards, like many Americans do?
I have seven cards, a mixture of credit, debit and charge cards and I just remember the pins.
I have 4 different credit cards, and use at least 3 of them with some frequency, but when I go to Europe (where this PIN stuff is popular) I find myself using the same credit card all the time because I simply can't be bothered to remember all these different PIN numbers.
I live in Europe and remember the pins just fine.
This whole PIN number thing is pretty stupid - it doesn't protect against fraud, just against use of stolen credit cards.
My bank refuses transactions on the magstripe of my cards if the terminal supports chip and pin transactions and immediately calls me to ask me if it was a legitimate transaction (your bank may differ). As far as cloning cards goes, it seems pretty hard to me? You can't clone the chip and the magstripe of my card won't work for you. Of course, it won't protect against online transactions.
Slightly incorrect - most Card Scheme rules require fallback to swipe in confirmed chip faliure.
The last PoS system (Forelogix based) I worked with actually had a validation built in to check any cards swiped and was able to identify without trying the chip reader first whether or not the card should have a chip. We were able to configure it to flat out refuse to accept using stripe on cards that should have a chip.
The country where something is developed first is saddled with a large installed base of the older tech. Countries which hop on the bandwagon later benefit from the experience of that trailblazer, and get the better tech right off the bat.
We know however that credit card PoS systems were always more popular in the UK and France initially than the USA (1960s). Yet, the USA still can't really compete with the UK and France as far as PoS systems go.
Chip is nothing but slower for us - and not really noticeably any more secure as the PIN alone stops quite a lot of fraud.
If your chip system is designed properly (PoS systems have a lot of different configuration options and countries have many different regulations), it should reject magnetic stripe payments on terminals that have chip and pin. Currently, it is not possible to clone chip cards and be able to process transactions on proper EMV PoS implementations.
There is 1 exception to this in locations where an IP connection isn't available and to auth you have to establish a dial up connection which can take about 30 seconds.
Offline authorizations however take less than a second.
You have to leave card in until transaction is complete. To make it not require that would mean a redesign of the entire system, again.
Eh, if you've got payment processors that are really slow to communicate with, you could do an offline authorization initially (should probably disable the risk profile checking of an existing implementation for offline authorization -- don't need it since you're immediately processing after), which is fairly instantaneous and then do the actual transaction immediately after allowing you to take the card out. So no, the standard is pretty flexible and you wouldn't need to redesign the entire system, just some parts of the PoS systems which can be done with software updates.
Its actually ridiculous the amount of work you would have to put in to make every possible card work that you are reasonably going to see.
Nah, it isn't. I implemented Eurocard, Visa and Mastercard chip support in a PoS system and it wasn't that difficult. What's likely happened above is the Cardholder Verification Method functionality is using online checks and since most payment processors over there probably don't have integration for card pins yet, they're just accepting any pin for online pin checks (really, they should be forcing offline pin checks, but you don't really see that functionality on 'always-online' systems).
At least you'll have access to the source code and can give it to a new contractor for further work/fixes.
I used to work in a big consultancy company; that rarely worked as a solution because they'd always realize they'd have to rewrite everything due to the amount of effort to learn the vast enterprise product that was already broken fundamentally.
you get binaries from organizations that either no longer exist or turn into extortionists to fix anything.
I've been on projects where opensource solutions were used primarily for almost everything, with exception to certain parts of the application where they did have the sources too (it just wasn't FOSS) and were essentially in the same situation, so I don't see how this helps.
I think from now on if someone on Slashdot asserts the evilness of global corporates, they should at the same time propose an alternative system that's already been tried and found to be successful, where "success" is measured in the technological benefit of the more (or less) efficient production process the previous investment paid for.
If the mov files have MPEG-4 video and audio inside, you can rename them to mp4 and they'll still work.
But that doesn't mean that suddenly become MP4 files from what I can see here:
$ file DSC_1731.MOV DSC_1731.MOV: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie, Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT) $ cp DSC_1731.MOV DSC_1731.mp4 $ file DSC_1731.mp4 DSC_1731.mp4: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie, Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
Also doesn't appear to open in my mp4-only editing tools.
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crisis: a time of intense difficulty or danger.
I consider the impending threat of life changing legal issues and difficulties created by preventing him from using his own name in official capacities to be a crisis. Regardless if it's self inflicted or not. If you don't, I guess we have a difference on opinion on what a crisis is.
I wouldn't put myself in that category of people that digest low quality content. I have magazine subscriptions online, I have Netflix, Sky Go, Amazon Prime Video, Qobuz etc. which pretty much seem to feature only professional content. I think it's more likely he didn't make music along the type of music I frequently listen to. Electronic, chip tune (particularly from demoscene work), classical, metal, heavy rock, OST type works by people like Bear McCreary or Hans Zimmer etc.
Maybe, but I don't really listen to any artists for anything but their music. I really can't think of an musician that sticks out in my head for other reasons, but it might be because I don't really investigate much about people I listen to.
However, I did hear of him through news articles, I just never heard his music. It's entirely possible that is his fault since I can't even find it for streaming on Qobuz and it seems the videos on youtube are low quality camera recordings which to me suggests that he or his publisher worked very hard to not have an online presence. That could be the reason why I haven't heard his music and maybe the reason many others haven't.
I really don't know the technical reason behind this, however I am unable to get virtualdubmod to open the .mov files even after being renamed to .mp4. I am in other editors, but they also say they support QuickTime files too, so that isn't surprising.
I'm not sure what you mean?
I looked at the rest of the comment and saw established knowledge like:
Outside of that, the rest of my comment were questions that you failed to answer and instead ask a personal question, changing this thread into what seems to be an ad hominem attack. But, let's review the questions:
I guess they could be construed as opinions, but asking the question of licensing crisis regarding not being able to view one of his videos doesn't seem like it's unfounded. Then the next one referring to my personal experience with having fun with people that have nice bodies shows my opinion is based on personal experiences on the matter.
I would also add that since these were asked as part of open questions, it's quite clear I haven't simply decided to claim these opinions as very solid ones either.
Sorry, but I just don't really see what you're referring to. Perhaps you could clarify the opinion you're seeing I expressed on something that I had no knowledge about?
Note: I am not the grand parent.
For someone to come out as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", I'd say they had an identity crisis and I don't even know the man. Whether or not the identity crisis is self inflicted or not is irrelevant.
Looks like his video is blocked in my country, looks like he's got a licensing crisis too? Not that I can grasp how a performance could show someone doesn't have an identity crisis.
I've never heard any of his music, so I wouldn't even know if he was any good at it.
I've never had a scoring problem before with "hot babes" or "hot guys" before, is that just an issue for rock stars?
Why is that?
When I see people in hoodies, I think 'chav'. Doesn't matter what skin color.
I'm 31 and all I really know about the guy is that he continued doing music after getting out of a label deal and pretty much the online stuff mentioned in the article. I have never heard his music; but maybe that's because most of my life I didn't watch TV (or own one) or listen to broadcast radio. A lot of people seem to remember him fondly on the Internet for reasons unknown to me.
I have seven cards, a mixture of credit, debit and charge cards and I just remember the pins.
I live in Europe and remember the pins just fine.
My bank refuses transactions on the magstripe of my cards if the terminal supports chip and pin transactions and immediately calls me to ask me if it was a legitimate transaction (your bank may differ). As far as cloning cards goes, it seems pretty hard to me? You can't clone the chip and the magstripe of my card won't work for you. Of course, it won't protect against online transactions.
The last PoS system (Forelogix based) I worked with actually had a validation built in to check any cards swiped and was able to identify without trying the chip reader first whether or not the card should have a chip. We were able to configure it to flat out refuse to accept using stripe on cards that should have a chip.
Your domain expired.
Here is the Wikipedia article of this commonly used term in FOSS communities.
We know however that credit card PoS systems were always more popular in the UK and France initially than the USA (1960s). Yet, the USA still can't really compete with the UK and France as far as PoS systems go.
If your chip system is designed properly (PoS systems have a lot of different configuration options and countries have many different regulations), it should reject magnetic stripe payments on terminals that have chip and pin. Currently, it is not possible to clone chip cards and be able to process transactions on proper EMV PoS implementations.
Offline authorizations however take less than a second.
Samsung's Magnetic Secure Transmission always seemed faster to me and the token system seemed fairly secure too.
Sorry, correction. By Eurocard, I meant Europay.
Eh, if you've got payment processors that are really slow to communicate with, you could do an offline authorization initially (should probably disable the risk profile checking of an existing implementation for offline authorization -- don't need it since you're immediately processing after), which is fairly instantaneous and then do the actual transaction immediately after allowing you to take the card out. So no, the standard is pretty flexible and you wouldn't need to redesign the entire system, just some parts of the PoS systems which can be done with software updates.
Nah, it isn't. I implemented Eurocard, Visa and Mastercard chip support in a PoS system and it wasn't that difficult. What's likely happened above is the Cardholder Verification Method functionality is using online checks and since most payment processors over there probably don't have integration for card pins yet, they're just accepting any pin for online pin checks (really, they should be forcing offline pin checks, but you don't really see that functionality on 'always-online' systems).
I used to work in a big consultancy company; that rarely worked as a solution because they'd always realize they'd have to rewrite everything due to the amount of effort to learn the vast enterprise product that was already broken fundamentally.
I've been on projects where opensource solutions were used primarily for almost everything, with exception to certain parts of the application where they did have the sources too (it just wasn't FOSS) and were essentially in the same situation, so I don't see how this helps.
How does using an opensource fix this?
Woo, I changed the licensing on my applet to GPLv3, still didn't do anything.
Xcode isn't using it despite the path being set when launching xcode.
Agreed.
For the file I posted about, the codecs are:
Video: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Audio: PCM S16 LE (sowt)
For a regular MP4, file says:
The codecs are:
Video: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Audio: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)
But that doesn't mean that suddenly become MP4 files from what I can see here:
Also doesn't appear to open in my mp4-only editing tools.
Getting married is typically a bad idea in this day and age for men in heterosexual relationships.