My Powerbook G4 had even a RGB cable; the Macbook PRO doesn't even has such port anymore... Now even the modem is missing and for sale as extra usb device for 55 euro. Every little needed option is causing the TCO to go up.
The worst thing is, where are those darn serial ports on those Macs AND PC's? Can one say OOB management without a loose-hanging Keyspan?;)
"Courage is not the absence of Fear... It is the presence of Fear, but the will to keep going"
So, since when is the Pentagon in terror business while fighting against terror? Which precedence of ideas are they trying to set to develop in other nations?
Your "CD delivers a more faithful reproduction of the source audio" is not right either, it's also being remastered towards todays standards where music explodes down your ears. I just have noticed very often the vinyl copy of a master sounds a lot better than the CD copy; Vinyl seems to be produced better than the todays dynamically compressed stuff available on CD. Very noticable on some Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk albums.
When you start layering audio, those samples loose their natural definition which is quite nice to hear through vinyl and cut off on CD. Try it, you don't need superdeluxe speakers; get a good headphone with a good frequency response; listen to the mastertape which is the closest representation of the recording; listen to the same recording on vinyl and CD. CD will sound "more crisp" but "flattened out" while Vinyl will sound "deeper" where CD just cancels out some of those sounds. I don't need to be smoking crack to feel my music;)
About those cables, having lots of audio cables together and shielded cables will be a heaven to use; I can't really have any interference to be on any of my devices in my studio (would sound bad on the master); I am not using super-expensive cables although I am for sure using durable connectors which are priced some more together with shielded cable.
I don't really call "wanting to hear those subtle differences" any audiophile nonsense; some people like their coffee black, some like it with cream; I don't like coffee. Just like the dozens of styles there are dozens of different setups and perspectives to look at it. The most important for me is that I always -want- to hear those subtle differences.. That little more.. Just like those bonusses on some DVD's. This does not mean I got a half-million-dollar studio here; I can achieve same qualities with lower costs and healthy thinking & planning too...
I am playing with vinyl for over 15 years now; got more than 30,000 now and it's one of the only formats I really ENJOY playing with. Not only it can be handled on a much more accurate way with immediate tactical response, it also gives the sounds "smoother" and "deeper" because the frequencies are not cut off at 44.1khz.
The difference is easy to hear even, I've shown it dozens of times to people who reacted the same like you did. I've had released press which was put on CD and on Vinyl, I've got the original here in my groovebox and samplers; the difference was noticible. In a way that vinyl in a club is still grooving those speakers down the neighboorhood, while cd's don't have that extra touch..
The difference has become smaller within the years because a lot of studios deliver their sounds (volume) mastered up, loosing a lot of the details of the song because of limiting, normalizing, etc so it sounds +/- the same because of some added distortion in the field...
It's not really especially in the cables, they will only give the possibility to lower any background noise by using supershielded cables. This makes an important difference in studios, although using expensive monstercables with golden plated connectors is a little bit too far out of reach; since most household applications are not even connected/installed right (like using RCA to connect their television to their surround sets, pulling RF noise from the outside to the inside of their house...
If you really want to be sure your installation is hum-buz-noise free, connect everything digitally, avoid ground loops and if you are going to play vinyl; DON'T get better/expensier cables than the ones hanging on your turntables, because the signal won't get better since it comes out of the turntable anyways.
If your source has silverplated connections the golden plated cables won't really make any difference except in your wallet. I've bought myself KRK RPK6 speakers for example; they are sounding GREAT for studiowork; they costed me 200 euro / piece while I could buy studio monitors of 1000 (or more) euro / piece with only a tiny difference in frequencies; which will be hearable whenever multiple sources are playing at the same time. Why did I pay 200? Because I didn't think the 1600 other euros (with the 2nd including) is not worth the price for that small range of frequencies I mostly don't hear anyways;)
Finally, they sell something for those terrists, you know, they have shopping sprees too!;) specs: will only explode in a radius of 20 miles; special edition will explode in a radius of 30 miles!
Wikipedia has been DRM'd too! look here. You'll need a license before you can edit;)
If they continue using this draconian DRM, how is anyone going to spread the word to the world ?;) (too bad I didn't find any more general information about COPP on Wikipedia..)
If people would already respect privacy as it is, there would be no discussion at all.
If everybody would understand the thin line inbetween the 8-16 job and the time which has been done outside payment hours, there would be no discussion at all.
Some people are taking George Orwell a bit too literally with his visions towards the future; since not only your body and soul is owned during working hours but also outside working hours now! You and your ideas are owned on work-and-private time as long you are in that company ?
Why not quit instead of being company property? Why are people so lax lately about their own *$# rights?!? Wasn't slavery banned years ago? I could call this a form of slavery where the company defines how you can live your life.
We only got one life to live, if that fact only gets more respected, people might start to see the precious time they got in life, with things you can do -now- and maybe never later again because you waited too long or you are too old to do it.. Do you really want to be enslaved to that corporate mind?
It's not because someone pays you for your services they also totally own your body and future. Image or not; if people would think in this way private = private & work = work, there wouldn't be an image; since "image" is only something relative created by few who want to set a standard...
The most blasting thing of 'm all; they want.OGG to be a closed DRMized format, while they got their posters hanging throughout the entire city with "Let's PLAY!" with the Play triangle next to it.
They sure got irony at Nokia between their lawyer and advertising departments.
must be a mass investment again.. and the economy goes on... 6 to 16 bulbs in a chandelier times 12-15 euro +/- retail price is 72-240 euro.
Where is that glow? Those "candlelights"? I'd use such chandelier for its charms, not to be the main used light. I'd think very sometimes an investment in "upgrading" to CFL's could be good, but not in all cases....like in mine if I'd have a chandelier;)
Society is getting a lot more materialistic; if you see what the kids are getting for X-mas, newyear, birthdays and other occasions I already mostly start drooling already in advance. It's gadgets all over. It started when I was in the 5th grade, in Belgium, when kids started to "relax" and started to think more materialistic wise.
Their material became a lot more important than the environment around them. When day starts parents go to work; in the current society with a lot of overtime, which they need to hand in to their children in one or another way. Values and norms are not really getting teached anymore ABOVE this materialism.
I can sound old when saying this; I'm only from 1976; although in my time we just did not get what we wanted before these values and norms where lived up right. After that we got our reward which was mostly a lot cheaper of the stuff kids get now...
To answer your question... If you are already, as kid, in such relaxed state of mind, while getting all those things just like that; would you be rebelious? How many parents pay up for their kids phonebill? I'd not be staggered if I would say "almost all".
I used to be that rebelious and I feel good I'm still living up my true values towards the society around me; do the others too? Not to say the least, values & norms cost "money"; sometimes not even cash as in cash, but rather into giving up a lot of little things which affect life in positive and negative ways. The one thing I feel bad with is to see the world diminishing in such state that my values and respect towards other people is not "worth" to others anymore as it used to be when they were important for everyone; including dad and mom. I wish parents would think more about this fact; since it's their offsprings ruling the next world...
I'd rather call it overspoiling and the industry is sure liking such form of consuming. I still wonder; when will values be more important again next to the stuff you buy, wear and own? At the call of the third worldwar ?... I really wonder...
.. I'm already only buying wax ; I banished CD's since the Beastyboys CD (which wasn't even mine but of my best friend!) left scars on my system; It literally disfigured the invoice package on my PC, rendering it useless. I won't touch ceedees anymore let stand buy them. I used to buy atleast 1 to 4 cd's a week because of my sub-profession as DJ; that time is over now.
It'll be only around 10-15 records / week now, and it'll be the brands I will like most; mostly no cartel assigned music.
They have casted that upon themselves, I'm now CD illiterate.. thanks RIAA and other counterparts in other countries for putting so much trust in their customers!
Also thanks for rendering 10% of my CD's useless on pro-DJ-player thanks for the copy-protection-a-go-go tricks... I'm so thru with this.
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My Powerbook G4 had even a RGB cable; the Macbook PRO doesn't even has such port anymore ...
;)
Now even the modem is missing and for sale as extra usb device for 55 euro.
Every little needed option is causing the TCO to go up.
The worst thing is, where are those darn serial ports on those Macs AND PC's?
Can one say OOB management without a loose-hanging Keyspan?
... has to be different ... I'd choose the fake Apple bricking method(tm) ...
"Courage is not the absence of Fear ... It is the presence of Fear, but the will to keep going"
So, since when is the Pentagon in terror business while fighting against terror?
Which precedence of ideas are they trying to set to develop in other nations?
in WoW you got no kingdom ... only the horse is left and an empty wallet ;)
No wonder people hangup on them!
This netcraft confirmation has been sitting in the queue for over 10 years now!
Your "CD delivers a more faithful reproduction of the source audio" is not right either, it's also being remastered towards todays standards where music explodes down your ears. I just have noticed very often the vinyl copy of a master sounds a lot better than the CD copy; Vinyl seems to be produced better than the todays dynamically compressed stuff available on CD. Very noticable on some Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk albums.
;)
...
When you start layering audio, those samples loose their natural definition which is quite nice to hear through vinyl and cut off on CD. Try it, you don't need superdeluxe speakers; get a good headphone with a good frequency response; listen to the mastertape which is the closest representation of the recording; listen to the same recording on vinyl and CD. CD will sound "more crisp" but "flattened out" while Vinyl will sound "deeper" where CD just cancels out some of those sounds. I don't need to be smoking crack to feel my music
About those cables, having lots of audio cables together and shielded cables will be a heaven to use; I can't really have any interference to be on any of my devices in my studio (would sound bad on the master); I am not using super-expensive cables although I am for sure using durable connectors which are priced some more together with shielded cable.
I don't really call "wanting to hear those subtle differences" any audiophile nonsense; some people like their coffee black, some like it with cream; I don't like coffee. Just like the dozens of styles there are dozens of different setups and perspectives to look at it. The most important for me is that I always -want- to hear those subtle differences.. That little more.. Just like those bonusses on some DVD's. This does not mean I got a half-million-dollar studio here; I can achieve same qualities with lower costs and healthy thinking & planning too
I hope they use condoms ;)
I am playing with vinyl for over 15 years now; got more than 30,000 now and it's one of the only formats I really ENJOY playing with. Not only it can be handled on a much more accurate way with immediate tactical response, it also gives the sounds "smoother" and "deeper" because the frequencies are not cut off at 44.1khz.
;)
The difference is easy to hear even, I've shown it dozens of times to people who reacted the same like you did. I've had released press which was put on CD and on Vinyl, I've got the original here in my groovebox and samplers; the difference was noticible. In a way that vinyl in a club is still grooving those speakers down the neighboorhood, while cd's don't have that extra touch..
The difference has become smaller within the years because a lot of studios deliver their sounds (volume) mastered up, loosing a lot of the details of the song because of limiting, normalizing, etc so it sounds +/- the same because of some added distortion in the field...
It's not really especially in the cables, they will only give the possibility to lower any background noise by using supershielded cables. This makes an important difference in studios, although using expensive monstercables with golden plated connectors is a little bit too far out of reach; since most household applications are not even connected/installed right (like using RCA to connect their television to their surround sets, pulling RF noise from the outside to the inside of their house...
If you really want to be sure your installation is hum-buz-noise free, connect everything digitally, avoid ground loops and if you are going to play vinyl; DON'T get better/expensier cables than the ones hanging on your turntables, because the signal won't get better since it comes out of the turntable anyways.
If your source has silverplated connections the golden plated cables won't really make any difference except in your wallet. I've bought myself KRK RPK6 speakers for example; they are sounding GREAT for studiowork; they costed me 200 euro / piece while I could buy studio monitors of 1000 (or more) euro / piece with only a tiny difference in frequencies; which will be hearable whenever multiple sources are playing at the same time. Why did I pay 200? Because I didn't think the 1600 other euros (with the 2nd including) is not worth the price for that small range of frequencies I mostly don't hear anyways
Finally, they sell something for those terrists, you know, they have shopping sprees too! ;)
specs: will only explode in a radius of 20 miles; special edition will explode in a radius of 30 miles!
Better reroll on this one ;)
Wikipedia has been DRM'd too! look here. You'll need a license before you can edit ;)
;)
If they continue using this draconian DRM, how is anyone going to spread the word to the world ?
(too bad I didn't find any more general information about COPP on Wikipedia..)
If people would already respect privacy as it is, there would be no discussion at all.
...
If everybody would understand the thin line inbetween the 8-16 job and the time which has been done outside payment hours, there would be no discussion at all.
Some people are taking George Orwell a bit too literally with his visions towards the future; since not only your body and soul is owned during working hours but also outside working hours now! You and your ideas are owned on work-and-private time as long you are in that company ?
Why not quit instead of being company property? Why are people so lax lately about their own *$# rights?!?
Wasn't slavery banned years ago? I could call this a form of slavery where the company defines how you can live your life.
We only got one life to live, if that fact only gets more respected, people might start to see the precious time they got in life, with things you can do -now- and maybe never later again because you waited too long or you are too old to do it.. Do you really want to be enslaved to that corporate mind?
It's not because someone pays you for your services they also totally own your body and future. Image or not; if people would think in this way private = private & work = work, there wouldn't be an image; since "image" is only something relative created by few who want to set a standard
I didn't know there were cheaper places around to get some surgery done...
The camera will probably standby-drain the battery before you arrive at your location ;)
One of my HP camera's has that neat feature of eating batteries au-volonte while in the OFF position.
To my knowledge Kerosine was especially designed to not catch fire easy, let stand explode?
;)
I could be wrong, I just don't care about oil and their counterparts that much.
When will I use kerosine in my car I'll let you know
The most blasting thing of 'm all; they want .OGG to be a closed DRMized format,
while they got their posters hanging throughout the entire city with "Let's PLAY!" with the Play triangle next to it.
They sure got irony at Nokia between their lawyer and advertising departments.
.. you forgot to include taxes.
... it's time for your medicine now ;)
... There is a staggering amount of people not using condoms anymore !
I was always eating the beaver to save those trees!
must be a mass investment again .. and the economy goes on...
..like in mine if I'd have a chandelier ;)
6 to 16 bulbs in a chandelier times 12-15 euro +/- retail price is 72-240 euro.
Where is that glow? Those "candlelights"? I'd use such chandelier for its charms, not to be the main used light.
I'd think very sometimes an investment in "upgrading" to CFL's could be good, but not in all cases..
Society is getting a lot more materialistic; if you see what the kids are getting for X-mas, newyear, birthdays and other occasions I already mostly start drooling already in advance. It's gadgets all over. It started when I was in the 5th grade, in Belgium, when kids started to "relax" and started to think more materialistic wise.
... If you are already, as kid, in such relaxed state of mind, while getting all those things just like that; would you be rebelious? How many parents pay up for their kids phonebill? I'd not be staggered if I would say "almost all".
... I really wonder ...
Their material became a lot more important than the environment around them. When day starts parents go to work; in the current society with a lot of overtime, which they need to hand in to their children in one or another way. Values and norms are not really getting teached anymore ABOVE this materialism.
I can sound old when saying this; I'm only from 1976; although in my time we just did not get what we wanted before these values and norms where lived up right. After that we got our reward which was mostly a lot cheaper of the stuff kids get now...
To answer your question
I used to be that rebelious and I feel good I'm still living up my true values towards the society around me; do the others too?
Not to say the least, values & norms cost "money"; sometimes not even cash as in cash, but rather into giving up a lot of little things which affect life in positive and negative ways. The one thing I feel bad with is to see the world diminishing in such state that my values and respect towards other people is not "worth" to others anymore as it used to be when they were important for everyone; including dad and mom. I wish parents would think more about this fact; since it's their offsprings ruling the next world...
I'd rather call it overspoiling and the industry is sure liking such form of consuming. I still wonder; when will values be more important again next to the stuff you buy, wear and own? At the call of the third worldwar ?
.. I'm already only buying wax ; I banished CD's since the Beastyboys CD (which wasn't even mine but of my best friend!) left scars on my system; It literally disfigured the invoice package on my PC, rendering it useless. I won't touch ceedees anymore let stand buy them. I used to buy atleast 1 to 4 cd's a week because of my sub-profession as DJ; that time is over now.
..
It'll be only around 10-15 records / week now, and it'll be the brands I will like most; mostly no cartel assigned music.
They have casted that upon themselves, I'm now CD illiterate
thanks RIAA and other counterparts in other countries for putting so much trust in their customers!
Also thanks for rendering 10% of my CD's useless on pro-DJ-player thanks for the copy-protection-a-go-go tricks...
I'm so thru with this.
... where you can whistle in 1200 baud and more over the phone ...