They've digitized off the analog reels instead of just compressing digitially sampled audio.
And what, pray tell, is the output of this process you call 'digitizing off the analog reels'? Could it be called 'digitally sampled audio' that is then compressed??
It would cost Sony a fortune to digitize their deep 'back catalog.' ITMS can make money selling a single copy of a work that's already out in digital form.
Sony can lose a LOT of money expending the resources to digitize their film vault so that one person can buy a print.
With no core OS X technology support (little things like colorsync, quicktime, etc)
Not to be, er, anti-Apple or anything, but how come people like you talk like this out of one corner of your mouth, and then espouse the 'Open Source Goodness' of OS X out of the other corner of your mouth? If the above is 'core OS X technology' then OS X is virulently NOT 'Open Source Goodness.'
I recently was going through old CDROM disks here and came up with the MP3 recordings of 'Geeks In Space' parts 1 through four. That's 'Slashdot Radio' for those who don't remember it. Rob Malda and crew doing a Voice-based audio program.
Well, I had a StarMax Power Macintosh clone at one point. It had the regular ADB port, but it also had PS2 keyboard and mouse connectors, and it had a regular VGA connector. And PCI slots.
Apple had to resort to "pull the license out from under 'em" tactics to kill those nice Apple clones, as they were loosing their market share to the Apple cloners.
Actually, having worked in a few skunkworks-type settings in the past, working under 'Shitty Management' actually improves the cultural depth of the workplace, and the work output.
It's when a company is a happy-shiney success that 'progressive management' rolls in with those scary 'psychological' HR types and kills any possibility of good energy.
Apple, H-P, and most other 'big biz' tech outfits these days don't have the old spirit. Never will again.
Buying and disposing of replacable rechargables isn't much better.
Huh? I maintain that buying and (eventually) disposing of rechargeable batteries in a device designed for user-replacable batteries is better than a device which is designed to not have user replacable batteries, and which device therefore will be considered 'disposable' for a significant number of owners who aren't a tech elite.
Where can any argument about recycling end? Ultimately everything in the physical earth is recyclable, it's just a matter of how hard we make that eventual recycling.
(if someone popped back in a time machine from 200 years from now, I suspect s/he might exclaim 'buy long-term mineral rights to all the landfill land you can!')
By their "logic", MS-DOS 6.2 is even more secure than Win2003.
By almost ANYBODY's log, MS-DOS 6.2 is more secure than many other OSes. It's certainly more secure than Linux, or OpenBSD, or any UNIX at all.
A default MS-DOS system has NO network ports opened.
The system must be accessed physically to intrude into it.
Everybody knows that once physical access has been reached, all bets are off. Very complex encrypted filesystem schemes must be implemented to make ANY OS more secure than any other, and rarely are.
When I was in Junior HS in the 1970's the Wood Shop had a device for quickly curing glued wood joints. It was basically a Microwave Oven without the enclosure, that you placed up against the glued joint and hit the trigger.
I suspect such a device wouldn't be allowed in a modern Junior High School setting.
I am thinking, instead, of making a series of Pez dispensers that look like the common MP3 players.
I've often wanted to do something similar with the 'cellphone' look (i.e. not _come up_ with a dispenser, just start regularly wearing one of the kid's gum/candy containers on my belt that looks like the cellphone that tools wear on their belt to look cool these days).
FM Radio stations have played the same stunted short list of 'Hits' for longer than Clearchannel has been around. I check in once in awhile, and they're STILL playing the same awful 'classic Rawk' hits that they were in the early 80's.
Do you even KNOW any mechanics personally? I have family members who work on cars a lot. I have started working a LOT on an old truck, a 1970 C-10 I bought and am getting to enjoy working on. I've replaced the starter, and I've torn open the Automatic Transmission to replace the filter. I'm about to pull it myself and bring it into the shop (a specialty shop that works exclusively on Automatic Transmissions) to get it fixed.
Nobody I know who will work on an automatic transmission. They are just plain considered 'specialty' items too complicated for even a regular garage to work on, that you farm out to the very few special shops who can do that job. I'm talking about people who won't wince when it comes to rebuilding a carbeurator. Nobody works on automatic transmissions.
'Look under the hood' is a good analogy, because used car salesmen thrive by allowing 'regular folk' customers look under the hood of lemons.
BTW: Most mechanics won't touch an automatic transmission. No number of wrenches is gonna let them figure it out. In a similar vein, very few programmers are actually Systems Programmers. And an application programmer isn't gonna be able to 'validate' the Linux kernel.
Can you describe further how the non-free source can be detected without figuring out who contributed it?
'Who' does matter to a lot of organizations. Hell, it even matters to a lot of people in the classic old 'stone soup' story that some people hearken back to in comparison to Open Source. It matters where that potato came from to a lot of people who are going to eat the soup.
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and the Mac's father and Apple's savior, Steve Jobs.
Eeeewww.
Hey, don't blame your pitifully administered IT instrastructure on Windoze.
They've digitized off the analog reels instead of just compressing digitially sampled audio.
And what, pray tell, is the output of this process you call 'digitizing off the analog reels'? Could it be called 'digitally sampled audio' that is then compressed??
That's stuff's garbage.
That is Stuff's garbage?
Who is this Stuff, and why is s/he leaving it around for you to reference in conversation?
It would cost Sony a fortune to digitize their deep 'back catalog.' ITMS can make money selling a single copy of a work that's already out in digital form.
Sony can lose a LOT of money expending the resources to digitize their film vault so that one person can buy a print.
Yes. They'll do it just like Apple did with the iPod.
Oh, maybe they'll allow you to burn the movie to a limited number of Video CDs.
With no core OS X technology support (little things like colorsync, quicktime, etc)
Not to be, er, anti-Apple or anything, but how come people like you talk like this out of one corner of your mouth, and then espouse the 'Open Source Goodness' of OS X out of the other corner of your mouth? If the above is 'core OS X technology' then OS X is virulently NOT 'Open Source Goodness.'
I recently was going through old CDROM disks here and came up with the MP3 recordings of 'Geeks In Space' parts 1 through four. That's 'Slashdot Radio' for those who don't remember it. Rob Malda and crew doing a Voice-based audio program.
Umm....
In most instances VME form-factor hardware is rated to a very high reliability. Likely more than a consumer-grade Powerbook.
Probably a useful cheap-and-dirty solution, though.
Hmmm. My Beige G3 grinds to a halt with the new versions of OS X.
I will say with NetBSD 2.0 all my hardware is running faster than with the old 1.6 release. Won't go that far with any proprietary-Ware OS.
Well, I had a StarMax Power Macintosh clone at one point. It had the regular ADB port, but it also had PS2 keyboard and mouse connectors, and it had a regular VGA connector. And PCI slots.
Apple had to resort to "pull the license out from under 'em" tactics to kill those nice Apple clones, as they were loosing their market share to the Apple cloners.
It's true, Slashdot has turned into another Apple rumour site.
Lookout. Here come the attorneys!
Actually, having worked in a few skunkworks-type settings in the past, working under 'Shitty Management' actually improves the cultural depth of the workplace, and the work output.
It's when a company is a happy-shiney success that 'progressive management' rolls in with those scary 'psychological' HR types and kills any possibility of good energy.
Apple, H-P, and most other 'big biz' tech outfits these days don't have the old spirit. Never will again.
Buying and disposing of replacable rechargables isn't much better.
Huh? I maintain that buying and (eventually) disposing of rechargeable batteries in a device designed for user-replacable batteries is better than a device which is designed to not have user replacable batteries, and which device therefore will be considered 'disposable' for a significant number of owners who aren't a tech elite.
Where can any argument about recycling end? Ultimately everything in the physical earth is recyclable, it's just a matter of how hard we make that eventual recycling.
(if someone popped back in a time machine from 200 years from now, I suspect s/he might exclaim 'buy long-term mineral rights to all the landfill land you can!')
By almost ANYBODY's log, MS-DOS 6.2 is more secure than many other OSes. It's certainly more secure than Linux, or OpenBSD, or any UNIX at all.
A default MS-DOS system has NO network ports opened.
The system must be accessed physically to intrude into it.
Everybody knows that once physical access has been reached, all bets are off. Very complex encrypted filesystem schemes must be implemented to make ANY OS more secure than any other, and rarely are.
When I was in Junior HS in the 1970's the Wood Shop had a device for quickly curing glued wood joints. It was basically a Microwave Oven without the enclosure, that you placed up against the glued joint and hit the trigger.
I suspect such a device wouldn't be allowed in a modern Junior High School setting.
I am thinking, instead, of making a series of Pez dispensers that look like the common MP3 players.
I've often wanted to do something similar with the 'cellphone' look (i.e. not _come up_ with a dispenser, just start regularly wearing one of the kid's gum/candy containers on my belt that looks like the cellphone that tools wear on their belt to look cool these days).
I'm glad you've adjusted fully to a disposable culture. Why, you're even using a throwaway account to make your comment!
You mean, the _replacable_ battery that insures that it'll still be usable five years from now??
FM Radio stations have played the same stunted short list of 'Hits' for longer than Clearchannel has been around. I check in once in awhile, and they're STILL playing the same awful 'classic Rawk' hits that they were in the early 80's.
Getting even more OT:
Do you even KNOW any mechanics personally? I have family members who work on cars a lot. I have started working a LOT on an old truck, a 1970 C-10 I bought and am getting to enjoy working on. I've replaced the starter, and I've torn open the Automatic Transmission to replace the filter. I'm about to pull it myself and bring it into the shop (a specialty shop that works exclusively on Automatic Transmissions) to get it fixed.
Nobody I know who will work on an automatic transmission. They are just plain considered 'specialty' items too complicated for even a regular garage to work on, that you farm out to the very few special shops who can do that job. I'm talking about people who won't wince when it comes to rebuilding a carbeurator. Nobody works on automatic transmissions.
I'm wishing my truck just had a nice 5-speed.
'Look under the hood' is a good analogy, because used car salesmen thrive by allowing 'regular folk' customers look under the hood of lemons.
BTW: Most mechanics won't touch an automatic transmission. No number of wrenches is gonna let them figure it out. In a similar vein, very few programmers are actually Systems Programmers. And an application programmer isn't gonna be able to 'validate' the Linux kernel.
Can you describe further how the non-free source can be detected without figuring out who contributed it?
'Who' does matter to a lot of organizations. Hell, it even matters to a lot of people in the classic old 'stone soup' story that some people hearken back to in comparison to Open Source. It matters where that potato came from to a lot of people who are going to eat the soup.
Mr. Kerry has put himself firmly in the camp of presidents
Thank goodness the rest of us didn't.
That's a little bit like telling the average driver:
"if you have a problem with your automatic transmission, here's a set of wrenches. Just look under the car."
Plus, this is a criticism of process, not of code.