Turns out it's a lie, there are no records. Think: If there were they wouldn't be hidden in some obscure basement, they'd be on full display somewhere with millions of pilgrims surrounding them.
PS: There's also no record of the great roman census that sent Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem or Herod's killing of every male under two years old. Both of those would have left a *lot* of paperwork. We still have the invoices for the Roman Legion's underpants, why not the great census...?
I thought "mil-spec" was a function of the number of lunches eaten during the acquisition process - more than ten lunches and a couple of freebies makes something mil-spec.
I think he means a small LCD a millimeter or so in front of the flash, ie. completely inside the iPhone, no moving parts needed.
I wonder if he's patented the opposite - select parts of the image where you don't want flash, or want less flash - eg. macro photography. The LCD could have a 16-level greyscale for fine control, I wonder if he's patented that as well. Gee, this thinking-up-patentable-ideas thing is really easy.
Personal taste is too variable for this. How do you know you can trust people not to have cloth ears or just be blinkered because they think such-and-such a band is the best band evah and can do no wrong?
The MFSL version of Equinoxe must have sounded good to the engineer who made it and he's a professional audio engineer working at a prestigious company.
On the other hand he's very obviously not a Jarre fan...
If they want to vote themselves shitty cellphone coverage in their nurseries and schools then let them. Hope they can get a signal when snowflake is choking on something...
How are you supposed to know if a record is well mastered or not without buying it? Record companies don't seem to give a hoot about quality.
eg. My bought-in-the-1980s CD of Equinoxe got scratched and I bought another copy. It was clipped all to hell, unlistenable. I spent big $$$ on a rare MFSL super-remastered gold-anniversary-edition from eBay, it had been low pass filtered and all the treble was gone. Not just a little bit... completely missing (see here).
A load of money later I downloaded a flac from The Pirate Bay and it was perfect (or at least, 'not totally destroyed by an idiot sound engineer'). Next time TPB will be my first option, not a last resort.
(And guess what, if the RIAA gets its way I could soon have my Internet disconnected for doing that)
This is what's wrong with all these threats - the "if you settle now it won't cost much but if you dare to contest it you could be in big trouble and owe a lot of money" approach. The RIAA is a big fan of this approach.
If governments want to pass some laws they should be passing them against people like this, not the paid-for laws they're so fond of lately.
I just looked on amazon.com: Avatar Blu-Ray is #95 in sales ranking, Avatar DVD is #71.
Both were released six months ago (on April 22nd) and both are still in the top 100. I can't imagine that anybody who was going to pirate it hasn't already done so.
I'm pretty sure it's not worth passing any new laws against P2P and that the biggest problem is the RIAA's business model, ie. most people don't listen to CDs/albums any more, they listen to mp3s/singles instead. How has the RIAA responded to this change in the market? It hasn't... (but the pirates have!)
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Nothing to stop you dumping the encrypted data somewhere and decrypting it later.
You've got a disk which can store decompressed 1080p in real time? Please let us in on the secret...!
If he ever existed at all he actually would have been a Jew but since he never did exist the point is moot.
Harry Potter doesn't exist but we can still discuss whether or not he's a French schoolboy...
Yeah, they used to tell me that in church, too.
Turns out it's a lie, there are no records. Think: If there were they wouldn't be hidden in some obscure basement, they'd be on full display somewhere with millions of pilgrims surrounding them.
PS: There's also no record of the great roman census that sent Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem or Herod's killing of every male under two years old. Both of those would have left a *lot* of paperwork. We still have the invoices for the Roman Legion's underpants, why not the great census...?
Here's your link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=synthesis+3d+from+2d
Be sure to remind as many Christians and Rednecks as possible...
Also pull it out next time somebody says "towel head". Remind them that Baby Jesus was a towel head and they should be more respectful.
I thought "mil-spec" was a function of the number of lunches eaten during the acquisition process - more than ten lunches and a couple of freebies makes something mil-spec.
Those "ancient" 386 chips are probably mil-spec radiation hardened chips, too. Good luck getting your 45nm quad cores to work reliably in space...
TV-era politics is more about having good hair than policies.
Go ahead, name a modern president who was bald.
I think he means a small LCD a millimeter or so in front of the flash, ie. completely inside the iPhone, no moving parts needed.
I wonder if he's patented the opposite - select parts of the image where you don't want flash, or want less flash - eg. macro photography. The LCD could have a 16-level greyscale for fine control, I wonder if he's patented that as well. Gee, this thinking-up-patentable-ideas thing is really easy.
Maybe you block off parts of it with, eg. a low-res LCD - no moving parts!
Invent a hand-job machine.
With 16 fingers...
... or admire the figure-hugging white coat as it fusses over you. If not, I'm not interested.
At least with iris scanning I'm leaving copies of my 'key' wherever I go.
It's hard to hide legally earned money from the government so the money in the accounts is probably less then clean itself.
What goes around comes around.
Personal taste is too variable for this. How do you know you can trust people not to have cloth ears or just be blinkered because they think such-and-such a band is the best band evah and can do no wrong?
The MFSL version of Equinoxe must have sounded good to the engineer who made it and he's a professional audio engineer working at a prestigious company.
On the other hand he's very obviously not a Jarre fan...
You mean 'unlikely' - they never looked for the real cause.
If they want to vote themselves shitty cellphone coverage in their nurseries and schools then let them. Hope they can get a signal when snowflake is choking on something...
five children who attended school 50 feet from cell antennas on a water tower have been diagnosed with cancer or leukemia and three have died
So ... instead of looking for the actual cause of the cancers you decided the tower was a good enough scapegoat?
Darwin in action.
How are you supposed to know if a record is well mastered or not without buying it? Record companies don't seem to give a hoot about quality.
eg. My bought-in-the-1980s CD of Equinoxe got scratched and I bought another copy. It was clipped all to hell, unlistenable. I spent big $$$ on a rare MFSL super-remastered gold-anniversary-edition from eBay, it had been low pass filtered and all the treble was gone. Not just a little bit ... completely missing (see here).
A load of money later I downloaded a flac from The Pirate Bay and it was perfect (or at least, 'not totally destroyed by an idiot sound engineer'). Next time TPB will be my first option, not a last resort.
(And guess what, if the RIAA gets its way I could soon have my Internet disconnected for doing that)
Vote Pirate, you know it's the right thing to do.
Huh? USB is just how the data arrives at the PC. All the conversion will be done by the gizmo.
I can't imagine a $99 plastic turntable will do them any justice.
This is what's wrong with all these threats - the "if you settle now it won't cost much but if you dare to contest it you could be in big trouble and owe a lot of money" approach. The RIAA is a big fan of this approach.
If governments want to pass some laws they should be passing them against people like this, not the paid-for laws they're so fond of lately.
I once read on the Internet about a guy who sent a bunch of random invoices to mid-size companies and a few of them got paid.
Don't know if it's true or just an Internet story ...
I just looked on amazon.com: Avatar Blu-Ray is #95 in sales ranking, Avatar DVD is #71.
Both were released six months ago (on April 22nd) and both are still in the top 100. I can't imagine that anybody who was going to pirate it hasn't already done so.
That's why I said "at most". The non-RIAA-sponsored studies actually find the opposite - the biggest downloaders are the biggest buyers.
I'm pretty sure it's not worth passing any new laws against P2P and that the biggest problem is the RIAA's business model, ie. most people don't listen to CDs/albums any more, they listen to mp3s/singles instead. How has the RIAA responded to this change in the market? It hasn't... (but the pirates have!)