I did however watch the sixth episode "regularly" on HBO, so I guess their tactic gained them a viewer.
Because HBO does not air regular commercials (product placement doesn't count, yet) as long as you have paid your HBO subscription fee, it should not matter where you got the show from.
If HBO can accept that, it is only a small step for them to realize that if they only release episodes when "enough" people have paid a subscription fee (where "enough" is whatever is required to pay production costs plus a decent profit margin, say 10-15%) then it doesn't even matter who watches the show, since HBO already got paid up front.
With so many "cappers" releasing in this new HR xvid format (960x526 or so), I've found that downloading shows off the net to be preferrable to any of the alternatives - tivo, on-demand, or "live" even for HDTV since most HDTV shows don't look hugely better at their native resolution.
You can dig up the details for the Audigy cards by searching for soundblaster or audigy and "digital DIN" - might need to add "pin-out" in there too.
It looks like the newest X-fi cards don't do it the way the old cards did - maybe the most expensive x-fi does. Creative sells speaker sets that use the digital DIN connector to pipe the digital audio directly to the speakers and apparently they don't work so well with the X-Fi - I think DTS3500 was the model number of one such speaker set.
Creative Soundblaster cards have a "digital out" mode where they produce a 2-channel spdif signal for each pair of speakers (L/R, SL/SR, C/Sub). People knock the soundblasters for two reasons - the DACs tend to suck and they tend to upsample 44.1Khz to 48Khz. If you got all digital, then the DACs don't matter and if you want to play back CDs, you can probably bypass the resampling hardware, especially under linux -- and if you can't you should be able to software upsample to 88.2KHz and then the card itself will not resample it.
Should be a lot cheaper than going with ADAT.
You should also look into BruteFIR and convolver filters to do digital room correction. It is way cheaper than something like the Tact Audio products that do the same thing, just with a slicker and simpler package.
And unless we are talking about established bands with many albums (and renegotiated contracts) under their belts, the artists never see any of the money from so-called 'legal' downloads either.
Are you so high on segma that you can't figure out that 'the artists' in question are those who are on allofmp3? Otherwise their stuff ain't being pirated in the first place. Basic set theory there, buttplunge.
You are an idiot, just suck down your santorum and accept it.
What crap. There are tons of indie bands on iTunes. If an indie band is not seeing $$ from their iTunes downloads it's because nobody is buying them.
Hey dickhole! Try to follow more closely. This thread is about allofmp3.com. Do you see many, or even any, of those indie bands on allofmp3? No you don't.
I wonder if the pedophiles in the US who subscribe to such services use the "but it's legal in Russia!" excuse.
I wonder if silly riaa-apologists think mp3 files, regardless of origin, are illegal to posesses in the US, because that's the only way your analogy could hold any water.
Regaurdless of this. Think about it. You aren't helping anyone by using this service aside from the guys in russia. The artist will NEVER see ANY of the MONEY you give them.
And unless we are talking about established bands with many albums (and renegotiated contracts) under their belts, the artists never see any of the money from so-called 'legal' downloads either.
You're still correct. It is heap protection in an evolutionary way. Heap protection on computers seeks to safeguard the data as it is. Junk DNA accepts that things are going to get corrupted and seeks to make it statistically less likely for the important parts to get corrupted.
Just being a "dummy target" seems like an inefficient use for extra DNA. I would have expected something along the lines of ECC like reed-solomon coding to have evolved. Kinda shoots down the "intelligent design" theory too, unless you can accept that God is an amateur at this stuff.
So they don't want wrong info, and they will provide their own info for FREE soon.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the definition of 'soon' when used by a public utility/agency/department. Soon, to such an entity, means "maybe one day."
Until they have a current map that is actually available, they've got no business bitchin about out-of-date maps.
They need to protect their trademark for it to be valid.
Uh, yeah, sure, whatever. Quit smoking the glue, ok?
That's assuming that you can prove that the calls were due to a trojan. If it rang premium rate lines for a couple of weeks and then removed itself before you got your bill, you'd have a fair amout of difficulty convincing the network that it wasn't you calling the numbers.
Chances are - you won't be the only customer to be affected. If they willfully ignore a pattern among their customers the cell provider would probably find themselves on the other end of a sucessful class action lawsuit.
It would be trivial to have an app dial a premium rate number on an unsecured phone, running up bills of hundreds of pounds or dollars and that is something I cannot afford to have and if TPM or DRM can prevent that, then Im willing to allow it in that environment. TPM has its place, and this is it - protecting me.
Think again.
In your example, the only one being protected is the cell carrier. There is no way, at least not in the USA, that they could get away with holding you liable for a trojan-dialer that had compromised the phone they sold you via the network connection they sold you.
Besides the lawyer: put it into the agreement what you are supposed to do! As a sysadmin I ended up doing "under the belt" jobs many times that did not fit my qualification and was not in my contract.
Talk about not in your contract!
What's under the belt, stays under the belt. All my clients keep their pants on, or I leave the room.
When Disney chief Robert Iger recently brought up the concept of shortening the window between theatrical release and DVD, he was fiercely criticised by the National Association of Theatre Owners."
It is no surprise that the theater owners would be pissed about such a plan. I have read that the release schedule in Hong Kong went to a "day and date" release plan like Cuban is promoting and that within a year, 75+% of the theaters in the city were out of business.
So, theater owners in the USA will be kicking and screaming every inch of the way. But, it is a fight they will lose - already the studios are earning 4x-5x as much revenue on DVD sales as they do on the theaterical ticket sales and if there is one constant in hollywood it is that money talks. I suggest theater owners start figuring out something else to do with the real-estate, like convert them to dance-clubs, laser-tag arenas, hand-ball courts, orgy courts and anything else that could make use of big open box rooms.
IF you are a worst-case environmental offender with your lawn,
Which a very large proportion of the US population is - see the numbers about 850 million gallons of gas on lawn mowers per year. Most of your "solutions" have close to zero chance of being adopted by the average suburban household because they are impractical. Fake grass, on the other hand is quick and painless with an end result that is practically indistinguishable from the real thing.
Tell me, which America do you miss? Do you miss the America of the 17th century? The America of the 18th century? 19th century? 20th century? Or the America that existed for the brief period of time when Carter and Clinton were in office? Tell me which America you miss, I truly am interested.
The America described in that little document called the Constitution of the United States, the one that doesn't mention the words 'God', 'Creator' or 'Jesus' even once.
Anyone putting in fake grass BECAUSE it is good for the environment is not doing the right thing for the environment.
Translation: It's bad dammit! I don't care what you say, my knee has jerked my foot into my mouth, and that's all there is to it!!! I need more strawmen, bring me more strawmen!!
Even so, I paid over $30 CAD for the DVD of Primer when I could find it (for comparison, most DVDs cost $20-25 CAD when they're released, and usually drop by $5 after six months). The moral of the story is that people are willing to pay for quality;
But unlike most movies, you have to watch 10 times before it makes sense, so that's really $3/watch versus $20-$25/watch for more expensive movies.
Hey look, another guy going off about what he "knows" rather than the facts.
1. Made from plastic, from oil.
Big deal, the oil is not being burnt is it? It is sitting there, basically inert on the ground for 10+ years, and once it is replaced it can be recycled. Meanwhile, every year 800 million gallons of gas are burnt by lawnmowers alone in the USA.
2. Plants make oxygen.
Big deal. Plants also consume oxygen and make carbon dioxide, ever hear of the Kreb's cycle? All of the grass in the entire country - lawns, golf-courses, etc account for under 5% of the total CO2 sink from all plants. Furthermore, grass like any other plant, is only a CO2 sink when it grows - which means heavy watering, lots of mowing and typically lots of chemical lawn treatments.
3. Grass doesn't require fertilizer, and watering usually doesn't hurt.
During growing season in the USA, Americans pour up to about 240 gallons of water per person per day on their lawns. And while grass doesn't require fertilizer to exist, it does require fertilizer and an assload of other chemical treatments to grow into the lush, verdant lawns that are the ideal of the average american home owner.
In general, fake grass is not better for the environment by any stretch of the imagination.
Looks like you better get crackin, get get crackin on those mental calisthetics.
Perhaps you missed the part about water. Watering lawns is a significant source of water wastage. Additionally, horse manure, just because it is "natural" doesn't mean that its use is riskfree and void of any dangerous consequences. As for bug killer, use of that has nothing to do with being "clinically clean" -- fungicide and insecticide are commonly used to protect the grass from parasites.
For a tree-hugging hippy, you sure don't know shit about just how bad for the environment lawns are. The environmental impact of manufacturing fake grass is a drop in the bucket compared to the environmental costs of maintaining a typical american lawn.
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I did however watch the sixth episode "regularly" on HBO, so I guess their tactic gained them a viewer.
Because HBO does not air regular commercials (product placement doesn't count, yet) as long as you have paid your HBO subscription fee, it should not matter where you got the show from.
If HBO can accept that, it is only a small step for them to realize that if they only release episodes when "enough" people have paid a subscription fee (where "enough" is whatever is required to pay production costs plus a decent profit margin, say 10-15%) then it doesn't even matter who watches the show, since HBO already got paid up front.
With so many "cappers" releasing in this new HR xvid format (960x526 or so), I've found that downloading shows off the net to be preferrable to any of the alternatives - tivo, on-demand, or "live" even for HDTV since most HDTV shows don't look hugely better at their native resolution.
You can dig up the details for the Audigy cards by searching for soundblaster or audigy and "digital DIN" - might need to add "pin-out" in there too.
It looks like the newest X-fi cards don't do it the way the old cards did - maybe the most expensive x-fi does. Creative sells speaker sets that use the digital DIN connector to pipe the digital audio directly to the speakers and apparently they don't work so well with the X-Fi - I think DTS3500 was the model number of one such speaker set.
Creative Soundblaster cards have a "digital out" mode where they produce a 2-channel spdif signal for each pair of speakers (L/R, SL/SR, C/Sub). People knock the soundblasters for two reasons - the DACs tend to suck and they tend to upsample 44.1Khz to 48Khz. If you got all digital, then the DACs don't matter and if you want to play back CDs, you can probably bypass the resampling hardware, especially under linux -- and if you can't you should be able to software upsample to 88.2KHz and then the card itself will not resample it.
Should be a lot cheaper than going with ADAT.
You should also look into BruteFIR and convolver filters to do digital room correction. It is way cheaper than something like the Tact Audio products that do the same thing, just with a slicker and simpler package.
And unless we are talking about established bands with many albums (and renegotiated contracts) under their belts, the artists never see any of the money from so-called 'legal' downloads either.
Are you so high on segma that you can't figure out that 'the artists' in question are those who are on allofmp3? Otherwise their stuff ain't being pirated in the first place. Basic set theory there, buttplunge.
You are an idiot, just suck down your santorum and accept it.
What crap. There are tons of indie bands on iTunes. If an indie band is not seeing $$ from their iTunes downloads it's because nobody is buying them.
Hey dickhole! Try to follow more closely. This thread is about allofmp3.com. Do you see many, or even any, of those indie bands on allofmp3? No you don't.
I wonder if the pedophiles in the US who subscribe to such services use the "but it's legal in Russia!" excuse.
I wonder if silly riaa-apologists think mp3 files, regardless of origin, are illegal to posesses in the US,
because that's the only way your analogy could hold any water.
Regaurdless of this. Think about it. You aren't helping anyone by using this service aside from the guys in russia. The artist will NEVER see ANY of the MONEY you give them.
And unless we are talking about established bands with many albums (and renegotiated contracts) under their belts, the artists never see any of the money from so-called 'legal' downloads either.
You're still correct. It is heap protection in an evolutionary way. Heap protection on computers seeks to safeguard the data as it is. Junk DNA accepts that things are going to get corrupted and seeks to make it statistically less likely for the important parts to get corrupted.
Just being a "dummy target" seems like an inefficient use for extra DNA. I would have expected something along the lines of ECC like reed-solomon coding to have evolved. Kinda shoots down the "intelligent design" theory too, unless you can accept that God is an amateur at this stuff.
So they don't want wrong info, and they will provide their own info for FREE soon.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the definition of 'soon' when used by a public utility/agency/department. Soon, to such an entity, means "maybe one day."
Until they have a current map that is actually available, they've got no business bitchin about out-of-date maps.
They need to protect their trademark for it to be valid.
Uh, yeah, sure, whatever. Quit smoking the glue, ok?
3 consecutive dupes!
Those aren't dupes, they are all a steganographic-encoded message.
That's assuming that you can prove that the calls were due to a trojan. If it rang premium rate lines for a couple of weeks and then removed itself before you got your bill, you'd have a fair amout of difficulty convincing the network that it wasn't you calling the numbers.
Chances are - you won't be the only customer to be affected. If they willfully ignore a pattern among their customers the cell provider would probably find themselves on the other end of a sucessful class action lawsuit.
It would be trivial to have an app dial a premium rate number on an unsecured phone, running up bills of hundreds of pounds or dollars and that is something I cannot afford to have and if TPM or DRM can prevent that, then Im willing to allow it in that environment. TPM has its place, and this is it - protecting me.
Think again.
In your example, the only one being protected is the cell carrier. There is no way, at least not in the USA, that they could get away with holding you liable for a trojan-dialer that had compromised the phone they sold you via the network connection they sold you.
However the last time I read something by the venerable Mr Thompson I had this overriding urge to commit murder.
Yeah, Hunter was a real trip - you could a contact high just from reading Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas...
Besides the lawyer: put it into the agreement what you are supposed to do!
As a sysadmin I ended up doing "under the belt" jobs many times that did not fit my qualification and was not in my contract.
Talk about not in your contract!
What's under the belt, stays under the belt. All my clients keep their pants on, or I leave the room.
When Disney chief Robert Iger recently brought up the concept of shortening the window between theatrical release and DVD, he was fiercely criticised by the National Association of Theatre Owners."
It is no surprise that the theater owners would be pissed about such a plan. I have read that the release schedule in Hong Kong went to a "day and date" release plan like Cuban is promoting and that within a year, 75+% of the theaters in the city were out of business.
So, theater owners in the USA will be kicking and screaming every inch of the way. But, it is a fight they will lose - already the studios are earning 4x-5x as much revenue on DVD sales as they do on the theaterical ticket sales and if there is one constant in hollywood it is that money talks. I suggest theater owners start figuring out something else to do with the real-estate, like convert them to dance-clubs, laser-tag arenas, hand-ball courts, orgy courts and anything else that could make use of big open box rooms.
IF you are a worst-case environmental offender with your lawn,
Which a very large proportion of the US population is - see the numbers about 850 million gallons of gas on lawn mowers per year. Most of your "solutions" have close to zero chance of being adopted by the average suburban household because they are impractical. Fake grass, on the other hand is quick and painless with an end result that is practically indistinguishable from the real thing.
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I was in Boston for the big protest in the commons.
Free speech is alive and well.
Yeah, in the free speech zones it is!
Hoo-fucking-ray for America, home of the caged, land of pussies.
Tell me, which America do you miss? Do you miss the America of the 17th century? The America of the 18th century? 19th century? 20th century? Or the America that existed for the brief period of time when Carter and Clinton were in office? Tell me which America you miss, I truly am interested.
The America described in that little document called the Constitution of the United States, the one that doesn't mention the words 'God', 'Creator' or 'Jesus' even once.
Anyone putting in fake grass BECAUSE it is good for the environment is not doing the right thing for the environment.
Translation: It's bad dammit! I don't care what you say, my knee has jerked my foot into my mouth, and that's all there is to it!!! I need more strawmen, bring me more strawmen!!
Your cognitive dissonance is showing.
Add perhaps you missed the bit about the water butts (barrels, tanks whatever)
Don't think I missed at all, I don't see you say shit about that in your previous post.
A lot of the US gets a lot of rain at certain times. When it rains you collect the water which means you're not wasting water.
Just what kind of drugs are you on? How many suburban homes even have the potential, never mind the capacity or motivation to do that?
Not only are you a tree-hugging hippie, you are clearly a frog-licker too.
Even so, I paid over $30 CAD for the DVD of Primer when I could find it (for comparison, most DVDs cost $20-25 CAD when they're released, and usually drop by $5 after six months). The moral of the story is that people are willing to pay for quality;
But unlike most movies, you have to watch 10 times before it makes sense, so that's really $3/watch versus $20-$25/watch for more expensive movies.
The Roman Catholic church, following the fall of the Roman empire,
in turn conquered much of the world by assimilation and adaptation.
Perhaps MS will take this lesson from history one day before it is too late?
I don't think that will happen because, no one expects the MS Inquisition!
Hey look, another guy going off about what he "knows" rather than the facts.
1. Made from plastic, from oil.
Big deal, the oil is not being burnt is it? It is sitting there, basically inert on the ground for 10+ years, and once it is replaced it can be recycled. Meanwhile, every year 800 million gallons of gas are burnt by lawnmowers alone in the USA.
2. Plants make oxygen.
Big deal. Plants also consume oxygen and make carbon dioxide, ever hear of the Kreb's cycle? All of the grass in the entire country - lawns, golf-courses, etc account for under 5% of the total CO2 sink from all plants. Furthermore, grass like any other plant, is only a CO2 sink when it grows - which means heavy watering, lots of mowing and typically lots of chemical lawn treatments.
3. Grass doesn't require fertilizer, and watering usually doesn't hurt.
During growing season in the USA, Americans pour up to about 240 gallons of water per person per day on their lawns. And while grass doesn't require fertilizer to exist, it does require fertilizer and an assload of other chemical treatments to grow into the lush, verdant lawns that are the ideal of the average american home owner.
In general, fake grass is not better for the environment by any stretch of the imagination.
Looks like you better get crackin, get get crackin on those mental calisthetics.
Perhaps you missed the part about water. Watering lawns is a significant source of water wastage. Additionally, horse manure, just because it is "natural" doesn't mean that its use is riskfree and void of any dangerous consequences. As for bug killer, use of that has nothing to do with being "clinically clean" -- fungicide and insecticide are commonly used to protect the grass from parasites.
For a tree-hugging hippy, you sure don't know shit about just how bad for the environment lawns are. The environmental impact of manufacturing fake grass is a drop in the bucket compared to the environmental costs of maintaining a typical american lawn.