Well, to make you feel better, I'm sure that you could hear the difference if you knew what to listen for and listened for it.
Well done on turning a relaxing hobby into hard work.
Yes, CDs sound better than mp3s, but if you rip half decently then the difference is negligible for the vast majority of people, say 95% of them. Double blind tests bear this out. Sure, a handful of audiophiles can tell the difference, but you guys are far and away in the minority. No one really cares about your airless gold plated cables on your hi-fi that cost more than my car. Most people listen to mp3s on an ipod using low end earbuds, and most people are perfectly happy with that.
I'm doubt that Radiohead need much to "keep them afloat". They've had 6 big selling albums (including a couple of very big selling ones) and plenty of successful singles, tours and the like. They have enough money to record and publish an album independently of any label. I imagine they could comfortably make precisely £0 on sales of this album and still keep going without any difficulty.
The Entomology of that is also questionable. It may have come into common usage in the US but it still refers back to Gypsies/Roma. Do some digging.
Entomology is the study of insects. You mean etymology, the study of the origin of words. You're obviously not the first person to mix the two up, as Wikipedia has links on each page to the other one.
That's all well and good, and it's certainly fair to say that Quake and Quake 3 were licensed big-time, but a quick glance at Wikipedia shows a grand total of six titles using the Doom 3 engine, two of which are Doom 3 and it's expansion, and one of which hasn't even been released yet.
Back in the day, there was a UK Amiga magazine called Amiga Power! who were vehemently against magazines being bought off for favourable reviews. They made use of the full review scale - 0% to 100% and railed against other magazines never going below 60%.
They came up with a score that would placate game publishers who were pushing for good reviews, which was the lowest that you could get away with giving without incurring their wrath - this score was 73%, and they occasionally used this score in a somewhat ironic fashion to indicate that the game was, in fact, crap, but that it was unlikely to review as such.
That something like this is harmful should be obvious.
Obvious to who? You're on slashdot, dude. You're preaching to the choir. We have science degrees and understand what a mW is and all the rest of it. People in general do not. There should be some sort of warning to let people know what they are creating and what it is capable of.
I'd love to know how you plan to get everyone to determine the relative dangers of everything they do, starting from the most basic of scientific precepts, which the vast bulk of people don't understand or care about.
Anything you can do with the DS, you can do with the iPhone.
Apart from use a stylus. That's going to be quite a deal breaker, given that a lot of DS games require precise touches, which can't really be achieved with even the daintiest of fingertips. I don't think the whole touch thing is likely to work that well when you move from the few-pixels precision of the stylus on the DS to a big fat finger on the iPhone.
I actually took my friend along to buy one yesterday and give some guidance on which games to pick up. He'd seen the new brain training game and played it for like 10 minutes and decided he had to own one.
Personally, I didn't even have to play it after I watched someone play the first brain training for 10 minutes before deciding I had to get one.
And no, for the trolls and fanboys... it's not all just brain training, but that's definitely one of the gateway drugs. After that it's Mario Kart, Tetris, Elite Beat Agents...
I sold my mythbox after about a year struggling to get it to work. There was always just more stuff to fix. It was the TV card, then the remote, then the aerial isn't strong enough so I need an amplifier even though all our digiboxes cope fine, then getting the thing to standby, then this, then that, then the other.
I have a job, training courses, a wife and a baby. I don't have time for this hassle.
I sold the box for £250 (~$500) and bought a Topfield PVR, which is pretty much the top of the line PVR you can buy. It works perfectly out of the box. Best of luck to the guy who bought my old mythbox hoping to get it set up nice and easy.
Interestingly, I read about a bunch of tiny worms on their way back from space. They've been up there long enough to produce 25 generations and scientists are going to examine their DNA to see if it's changed along the way due to aforementioned radiation.
I picked that because it's a silly point that people try to argue, as though because it's OK to imitate a work, it should be OK to reproduce it. There's a huge leap of logic there.
As for the other points, they're valid up to a point. An artist is free to release their music without any constraints for people to reproduce as they will. However, most don't. People sign to labels with full knowledge of what the distribution rights will be. Until they sign they can do what they like. After that, all bets are off. If you don't like that, don't sign.
As for the low costs of producing CDs... big deal. Plenty of things cost a vast amount more than they actually cost to produce. If you want to argue this point, you may as well argue with practically all producers of anything.
Throughout most of human history, music flourished without any copyright. If the MPAA/RIAA had their way, even humming a tune would be a copyright infringement with micropayments, instead of just something people naturally do - which is, by the way what music is - something people naturally do.
People need to learn to distinguish between, say, humming a song or learning to play it yourself; and the act of creating a near perfect copy of the original at close to zero marginal cost. The former is just fine, the latter is not.
People keep banging on about "ooh, music flourished on people playing other people's songs" and all this crap. You're still allowed to do this! You're just not allowed to create a copy of the original artists recording and distribute it without permission.
Note: I realise the tab website thing that happened recently puts something of a damper on this, and I do agree that such a thing is wrong. However, that still doesn't make copyright infringement OK.
So get a DS. They don't upgrade the firmware, and there's tons of homebrew out there for the DS. The DS is also more suited to some of the homebrew, as it has the stylus, which makes productivity software and the like easier to use.
Of course, there's also plenty of DS homebrew out there for movies, music and tut tut pirated games.
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Things that are not funny to you, you mean.
Well, to make you feel better, I'm sure that you could hear the difference if you knew what to listen for and listened for it.
Well done on turning a relaxing hobby into hard work.
Yes, CDs sound better than mp3s, but if you rip half decently then the difference is negligible for the vast majority of people, say 95% of them. Double blind tests bear this out. Sure, a handful of audiophiles can tell the difference, but you guys are far and away in the minority. No one really cares about your airless gold plated cables on your hi-fi that cost more than my car. Most people listen to mp3s on an ipod using low end earbuds, and most people are perfectly happy with that.
I'm doubt that Radiohead need much to "keep them afloat". They've had 6 big selling albums (including a couple of very big selling ones) and plenty of successful singles, tours and the like. They have enough money to record and publish an album independently of any label. I imagine they could comfortably make precisely £0 on sales of this album and still keep going without any difficulty.
Yeah...cause the chances of having a number evaluate to 65,535 via multiplication is extremely common.
Well, it's not prime (it breaks down as 3*5*17*257) so there is a chance it'll come up from time to time.
The Entomology of that is also questionable. It may have come into common usage in the US but it still refers back to Gypsies/Roma. Do some digging.
Entomology is the study of insects. You mean etymology, the study of the origin of words. You're obviously not the first person to mix the two up, as Wikipedia has links on each page to the other one.
Right. Looking back, that makes sense.
"krasivii" means beautiful. Both "krasnii" for red and "krasivii" for beautiful begin with the root "kras".
I'm not sure what you're arguing here...
Why don't you just make F10 bigger, and make F10 be the top... function key, and make that a little bigger?
That's all well and good, and it's certainly fair to say that Quake and Quake 3 were licensed big-time, but a quick glance at Wikipedia shows a grand total of six titles using the Doom 3 engine, two of which are Doom 3 and it's expansion, and one of which hasn't even been released yet.
Something wrong with id's latest work, I wonder?
Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
Well, i is imaginary, after all.
Back in the day, there was a UK Amiga magazine called Amiga Power! who were vehemently against magazines being bought off for favourable reviews. They made use of the full review scale - 0% to 100% and railed against other magazines never going below 60%.
They came up with a score that would placate game publishers who were pushing for good reviews, which was the lowest that you could get away with giving without incurring their wrath - this score was 73%, and they occasionally used this score in a somewhat ironic fashion to indicate that the game was, in fact, crap, but that it was unlikely to review as such.
That something like this is harmful should be obvious.
Obvious to who? You're on slashdot, dude. You're preaching to the choir. We have science degrees and understand what a mW is and all the rest of it. People in general do not. There should be some sort of warning to let people know what they are creating and what it is capable of.
I'd love to know how you plan to get everyone to determine the relative dangers of everything they do, starting from the most basic of scientific precepts, which the vast bulk of people don't understand or care about.
Indeed. That sort of thing usually doesn't end well. Ask the guys behind X10 for example.
Anything you can do with the DS, you can do with the iPhone.
Apart from use a stylus. That's going to be quite a deal breaker, given that a lot of DS games require precise touches, which can't really be achieved with even the daintiest of fingertips. I don't think the whole touch thing is likely to work that well when you move from the few-pixels precision of the stylus on the DS to a big fat finger on the iPhone.
Hey, quite a few of us dad's have them too!
I actually took my friend along to buy one yesterday and give some guidance on which games to pick up. He'd seen the new brain training game and played it for like 10 minutes and decided he had to own one.
Personally, I didn't even have to play it after I watched someone play the first brain training for 10 minutes before deciding I had to get one.
And no, for the trolls and fanboys... it's not all just brain training, but that's definitely one of the gateway drugs. After that it's Mario Kart, Tetris, Elite Beat Agents...
You can have it.
I sold my mythbox after about a year struggling to get it to work. There was always just more stuff to fix. It was the TV card, then the remote, then the aerial isn't strong enough so I need an amplifier even though all our digiboxes cope fine, then getting the thing to standby, then this, then that, then the other.
I have a job, training courses, a wife and a baby. I don't have time for this hassle.
I sold the box for £250 (~$500) and bought a Topfield PVR, which is pretty much the top of the line PVR you can buy. It works perfectly out of the box. Best of luck to the guy who bought my old mythbox hoping to get it set up nice and easy.
Interestingly, I read about a bunch of tiny worms on their way back from space. They've been up there long enough to produce 25 generations and scientists are going to examine their DNA to see if it's changed along the way due to aforementioned radiation.
Links at Google News.
I got it because I was logging in at the time of posting the comment.
Bible... Manhunt... A bit different really. A better example might have been American Psycho.
Still, you got your +5 funny, so I guess that's the main thing.
Haha - captcha is "baiting".
I picked that because it's a silly point that people try to argue, as though because it's OK to imitate a work, it should be OK to reproduce it. There's a huge leap of logic there.
As for the other points, they're valid up to a point. An artist is free to release their music without any constraints for people to reproduce as they will. However, most don't. People sign to labels with full knowledge of what the distribution rights will be. Until they sign they can do what they like. After that, all bets are off. If you don't like that, don't sign.
As for the low costs of producing CDs... big deal. Plenty of things cost a vast amount more than they actually cost to produce. If you want to argue this point, you may as well argue with practically all producers of anything.
Throughout most of human history, music flourished without any copyright. If the MPAA/RIAA had their way, even humming a tune would be a copyright infringement with micropayments, instead of just something people naturally do - which is, by the way what music is - something people naturally do.
People need to learn to distinguish between, say, humming a song or learning to play it yourself; and the act of creating a near perfect copy of the original at close to zero marginal cost. The former is just fine, the latter is not.
People keep banging on about "ooh, music flourished on people playing other people's songs" and all this crap. You're still allowed to do this! You're just not allowed to create a copy of the original artists recording and distribute it without permission.
Note: I realise the tab website thing that happened recently puts something of a damper on this, and I do agree that such a thing is wrong. However, that still doesn't make copyright infringement OK.
Between the robot and this guy.
In the UK, you typically use an ASBO.
So get a DS. They don't upgrade the firmware, and there's tons of homebrew out there for the DS. The DS is also more suited to some of the homebrew, as it has the stylus, which makes productivity software and the like easier to use.
Of course, there's also plenty of DS homebrew out there for movies, music and tut tut pirated games.