Vinyl allows easy seeking to any point in the song by moving the needle. Experienced DJs can tell transitions in the song by looking at the shape of the grooves. Vinyl can easily be slowed (or sped up) by a few percent in order to match beats.
You can do all of these with proper CD DJing equipment like Pioneer's CDJ-1000 without really noticing the difference. The seek forward and reverse buttons behave in much the same way as picking up a needle and dropping it a few millimetres closer to the centre. The pitch control for speeding up and slowing down the track is much more consistent and predictable than it is on a turntable (in fact it's basically only Technics turntables that are consistent). And as an experienced DJ, I can look at the levels of the current track on the player's LCD display and easily tell where the good transition areas are.
The DJing community has been having the CD vs vinyl debate for several years now, so this is fairly old hat to me. The fact is that almost all well-known non-hip-hop DJs have switched to CD, and some like Sasha and Paul van Dyk have moved entirely to digital platforms like Ableton and Serrato Scratch.
I've been DJing for about five years, and I prefer by far to DJ off CDs, purely for the flexibility. I buy tracks off places like Beatport, and then burn to CD. This means I can turn up at a gig with an enormous collection of music in my bag, whereas taking a record box limits you to 50-60 records (and it's much heavier). And believe me, even on a monstrous club system (and I've played on many), it's easy to tell the difference between vinyl and CD. Vinyl tends to sound muffled, CD is much clearer and sharper (generally speaking).
Yes, it has in Australia, though not quite in the way you describe. There was a court case last year where it was ruled that modding a console or DVD played to circumvent region-locking was legal, as it's not a "copyright protection mechanism". I'm also fairly sure that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ruled region-locking as anti-competitive behaviour, though that doesn't mean companies can get prosecuted for doing it.
Most DVD players sold here are locked to region 4, but almost all of them have override codes to disable the region locking.
I think you'll find it's only DRM'ed WMA files purchased from the Zune music store that can be shared with friends. No way they'd let you do that with plain old MP3 files (after all, they could be pirated!).
The fun question is, will the studios ever get daft enough to want to take the Silmarillion to the silver screen?
As other posters have noted, the entire Silmarillion in itself isn't filmable. It's worth remembering that JRRT didn't write it as one book; it's a collection of stories posthumously edited and compiled by his son Christopher. But with that said, many of the stories in it would make excellent movies. As an example, there's a brilliant but very long film treatment of the Akallabeth available over here. As I said, it's very long but an excellent read if you have an hour or two to spare!
Yes, you can also do this in Australia. To be counted as having voted, all you need to do is accept the ballot paper and sign your name on the roll, then place the ballot paper in the box. You can draw pictures, create your own candidates, or leave the whole thing blank if you want - they all end up in the same "declined" pile.
Both of Australia's majorsupermarket chains offer online shopping and home delivery. I've been doing this for the past year or so, and it's pretty impressive. I've got a standard cart set up with my usual groceries, so when I need to do a shop I just make any necessary modifications to the standard order, and specify a delivery time. Easy as pie!
It's not that I'm lazy, I just find going to the supermarket a frustrating, inefficient and depressing experience. Perhaps the original idea was just ahead of it's time?
Actually, the 300 to 400 emails per day figure was given by Harry Knowles of AICN. Given that he's running one of the net's more popular sites, sending that many emails per day probably isn't much of an exaggeration.
I get the sense they rigged the thing just to premote the software. it's such a poorly designed a survey that I would have supsected it even if they had no mention of the software anywhere near the survey.
I got pretty much the same feeling from doing the test, and I got a 6 out 8 (go me!). The first choice (between screensaver sites) was just an absolute joke, there was literally no information on which to base your choice! Except of course that one site looked like it was designed in NetObjects Fusion, and the spyware site looked like a "Learn HTML in 21 minutes!" special.
The only other thing I'd add to your comments is that the presence of a forum seems more likely to indicate safety. Most of the "safe" sites had a forum section, most of the "unsafe" sites don't. Obviously this isn't a hard and fast rule, but a forum where people can complain about the spyware they just downloaded would tend to scare prospective victims away.
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You can do all of these with proper CD DJing equipment like Pioneer's CDJ-1000 without really noticing the difference. The seek forward and reverse buttons behave in much the same way as picking up a needle and dropping it a few millimetres closer to the centre. The pitch control for speeding up and slowing down the track is much more consistent and predictable than it is on a turntable (in fact it's basically only Technics turntables that are consistent). And as an experienced DJ, I can look at the levels of the current track on the player's LCD display and easily tell where the good transition areas are.
The DJing community has been having the CD vs vinyl debate for several years now, so this is fairly old hat to me. The fact is that almost all well-known non-hip-hop DJs have switched to CD, and some like Sasha and Paul van Dyk have moved entirely to digital platforms like Ableton and Serrato Scratch.
I've been DJing for about five years, and I prefer by far to DJ off CDs, purely for the flexibility. I buy tracks off places like Beatport, and then burn to CD. This means I can turn up at a gig with an enormous collection of music in my bag, whereas taking a record box limits you to 50-60 records (and it's much heavier). And believe me, even on a monstrous club system (and I've played on many), it's easy to tell the difference between vinyl and CD. Vinyl tends to sound muffled, CD is much clearer and sharper (generally speaking).
Yes, it has in Australia, though not quite in the way you describe. There was a court case last year where it was ruled that modding a console or DVD played to circumvent region-locking was legal, as it's not a "copyright protection mechanism". I'm also fairly sure that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ruled region-locking as anti-competitive behaviour, though that doesn't mean companies can get prosecuted for doing it.
Most DVD players sold here are locked to region 4, but almost all of them have override codes to disable the region locking.
I think you'll find it's only DRM'ed WMA files purchased from the Zune music store that can be shared with friends. No way they'd let you do that with plain old MP3 files (after all, they could be pirated!).
The actual list of people getting sued.
Apparently the Everquest movie is going to be called "Nerds on a Treadmill"
*rimshot*
As other posters have noted, the entire Silmarillion in itself isn't filmable. It's worth remembering that JRRT didn't write it as one book; it's a collection of stories posthumously edited and compiled by his son Christopher. But with that said, many of the stories in it would make excellent movies. As an example, there's a brilliant but very long film treatment of the Akallabeth available over here. As I said, it's very long but an excellent read if you have an hour or two to spare!
How exactly do you quantify that? Is there a repressed experience from WoW that you'd like to share with us?
Wouldn't modding an Xbox to run Linux require a mod-chip, and thus run afoul of the beloved DMCA?
Yes, you can also do this in Australia. To be counted as having voted, all you need to do is accept the ballot paper and sign your name on the roll, then place the ballot paper in the box. You can draw pictures, create your own candidates, or leave the whole thing blank if you want - they all end up in the same "declined" pile.
Perhaps she didn't feel comfortable discussing the rings around Uranus?
Yes - my girlfriend is currently living in a small town in rural Japan, and even her house has a heated toilet seat.
I hope it's optimised for streaming media!
You just summed up most slashdot comments.
Check the bottom right corner of the YouTube player, where it says "Size". Click the right-hand button to play the video in full-screen.
It's true -- I just signed up and purchased some John Cage tracks, and they've all gone silent!
All companies engage in shady, unethical or even illegal behaviour. The only difference is how blatant they are about it.
It's not that I'm lazy, I just find going to the supermarket a frustrating, inefficient and depressing experience. Perhaps the original idea was just ahead of it's time?
Actually, the 300 to 400 emails per day figure was given by Harry Knowles of AICN. Given that he's running one of the net's more popular sites, sending that many emails per day probably isn't much of an exaggeration.
The only other thing I'd add to your comments is that the presence of a forum seems more likely to indicate safety. Most of the "safe" sites had a forum section, most of the "unsafe" sites don't. Obviously this isn't a hard and fast rule, but a forum where people can complain about the spyware they just downloaded would tend to scare prospective victims away.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05