This is all to true. The only consolation for the thought of having everything locked up would be perhaps that everyone would revert to ideas of "free music" (free as in freedom), in which case the RIAA would suddenly find itself without anything to regulate. The kind of music where you teach your buddy to play it on the guitar, and nobody tells you can't go the the local bandshell and play it with the rest of your buddies.
What, pray tell, keeps one from just playing this in an ordinary CD player (that will play it, what a miracle) and going straight from line out to your computer's line in... and... *GASP* turning it into an MP3 file? If you keep everything clean, you should have no quality loss, no more than what MP3 would give you, anyway. I don't think the media giants really thought this through. At all.
I recently designed a completely imagintive paintball turret to mount atop a car, complete with a passenger-side joystick and Linux-driven motor driver. If only it were a reality... *SUV driver honks* *fip* *fip* *fip* *SPLAT!*
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This might be handy on cell phones that lack a decent keyboard. Sometimes you want the most obvious hit, but don't want to type it all.
Let's just hope they don't turn out to be sea bass.
Maybe you're thinking of that weird chunked-out 'o'?
Sshhhhh. They're radio people.
This is all to true. The only consolation for the thought of having everything locked up would be perhaps that everyone would revert to ideas of "free music" (free as in freedom), in which case the RIAA would suddenly find itself without anything to regulate. The kind of music where you teach your buddy to play it on the guitar, and nobody tells you can't go the the local bandshell and play it with the rest of your buddies.
the carwash receives instructions from the control computer via XML.
What, pray tell, keeps one from just playing this in an ordinary CD player (that will play it, what a miracle) and going straight from line out to your computer's line in... and... *GASP* turning it into an MP3 file? If you keep everything clean, you should have no quality loss, no more than what MP3 would give you, anyway. I don't think the media giants really thought this through. At all.
Superscape has been doing this sort of tech for about two years, now.
Shooting paintballs at dumb SUV drivers.
I recently designed a completely imagintive paintball turret to mount atop a car, complete with a passenger-side joystick and Linux-driven motor driver. If only it were a reality... *SUV driver honks* *fip* *fip* *fip* *SPLAT!*