I wonder what bitrate mp3.com client is encoding CDs into mp3, 96khz?
I'd think a reduced quality copy of a personal collection is tolerable to record companies. This is just my common sense thinking, not contestable by law.
The record company didn't raise a fuss about cassette copy of CDs, but they did fight wars with digital cassette makers in 1980's about preventing digital tape users copying music from CDs.
This gives new meaning to "It's harder for rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
American, or maybe most of human race, are really behaving like dogs -- they run around the world, select some meaningful spot, and urinate to mark his presence, then go home. No wonder Russian sent a dog first into the space.
This story just shows that money doesn't make people smarter, it just amplifies the stupidity.
Saw it on PBS Newshour the other day, from 1974 - 1996, only 9 childern died in commercial airlines, 6 of 9 might die regardless they sit in safty chair or not (read: something like a plane crash).
Requiring a child travel with child safty seat will increase the travel expense of the family. Some family might travel by car instead, which is much less safe than travel by air.
Just another example of your tax money hard at work.
Operator: Hello, Mr. X, I just want to confirm that you want to switch your current long distance carrier from WalMart-CBS-USWest-Qwest-Marlboro to our company HP-Disney-Sears-AT&T, is that correct.
Me: Yes. And I'd like to have DSL internet connection provided by Microsoft-Sun microsytem-3COM-L.L.Bean-Warner-brother.
I've been with netbank for 1 year, here is my view:
In general, good banking services but not so good in IT implementation.
The Good: 1) free bill pay. 2) 5% (5.13% APY) money market account (now it seems other online banks can top) that. 3) Customer Service is sufficient. I called 3 times (evening) and took me no time to talk to a real person.
The Bad: 1) No Quicken direct download (they have QFX file, but that's high stress work to import it). And the customer assistant told me not to expect it for first half of 2000.
2) Web page is, at least, uninspired and sometimes slow and buggy. internal web based mail system is HARD to use.
I'll drop Net@Bank if I can find a all-in-one investment account with free bill pay and quicken download. But for now it can take care of biz. The drawbacks are not bad enough for me to switch.
Another similiar issue is room temperature super conductor. In 1989 the progress of critical temperature for super conductor was made daily, with headlines after headlines. Someone even claimed they found the room temperature super conductor material. But in the end the practical material is around liquid nitrogen level. Not bad, but still leave people with more wanting.
Since when we use famous quote instead of our brain to think?
I'd like to see what's Einstein's view on big bang theory. No, he is not infallable.
How can anyone prove/disprove faith? I guess I have to prove to you beyond any doubt God exists, thus *poof* your faith vanishes. (paraphrase from H2G2).
If you look at your upper arm (left or right), you will see several scars. Now whose idea was that to put those scars on your arm so you and your loved ones are spare of:
There were butchers before, there will be butchers in the future. Adolf Hitler is just another Alexender the Great (sorry to Macedonians), except his evils were amplified by modern weaponary. Hitler can't do 1 / 1000 th of what he did without the German people's consensus and the fact of unique European internal geo-politic history.
"Kings are slaves of history" -- Tolstoy.
P.S. I thought Pearl Harbor changed America, not Hitler.
Interesting prospect. So finally TV and movie will merge into one digital medium. Maybe we could expect to see movie projectors (mini-mature) show up at home, and we could go to movies for free, except that they run commercials every 10 min. during the screening. (I don't care for movie trivias either)
I thought go see a movie means "going out", and watching TV is "staying in". Now I'm depressed, using a line from seinfeld: "When Movie George come in here and meet TV George, World Collide".
The Plot is: Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconscin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it by proving God is fallable, it destory the fundation of God's existence, which is "God is infallable". So the God might just say "good bye" and vanish in a puff... (thus the movie begin)
It seems the life-creating experiment might just make God a little more irrelevent, just like Copernicus, Darwin did.
I went to my local supermarket and read a sign on the checkout counter:
"Help wanted, F/T or P/T, stock option available".
I think it's a good time to liquidate my portfolio and start buying Gold.
So I'm a bear, so what.
Tampa is the Table dancing capital of U.S.
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Well, I don't know why Tampa City concil members think they can claim this honor onto their city (I'd think Vegas or Reno has more nudy bars). But they just passed an ordiance last week that prohibits any dancer perform dancing less than 6 feet from their audience.
I just love to how people times again show themselves as hypocrites. news here
I just think American goverment and media put out imaginary threat to the public to justify their own alternative motive. In the cold war it was the Communists, As one south american politician complains, "anything progressive in the world is regarded by American as communism". U.S. practiced international McCarthyism for 30 years, stage rigged elections, coups, commit assassiations through their puppet goverement. Even today on slashdot people just use "Commie" as a dirty word. What a myth!
After the cold war it's terrorism. Well, a lot of terrorism is the revenge of what U.S. did to other country. Iranians hate U.S. because U.S. overthrown Iran's democratic elected goverment. I am not saying terrorism is right, but it's laughable that U.S. is holding the moral high ground here. People in Congress keeps talking about "Rogue Nation". The term itself is wrong and racist. If you apply your standard to other people, then I'm sure it's fair to some one to call U.S. "rogue nation".
And there were imaginary threat of AIDS, school violence, drugs etc. I am sick n' tired of some "moral majority" leader show up on TV and say (in southern accent) "well, as long as we can save one child, cutting off testicles of sex offender would be worth it". (Imagine George Carlin say that sentence, okay, laugh).
If we continue on this slippery slope, after 200 years U.S. would become as messed up as any old world, with divisions, hatres and depressions. And I hope future generations could migrate to Mars, cuz earth would be the Evil Empire.
I don't want to get too technical here, but since human can only hear 22Hz to 22000 hz sound, you only need 44,000Hz sampling. Anything above 44,000Hz is a waste of money.
We following the Sampling Theory which says: No information would be lost if sampling frequency (CD recording rate) was double the value of signal frequency (human-range sound).
It's like you wanna scan a picture of checker boxes, how many pixels do you use to represent one box ? Only 1 pixel per checker box, using 4 pixel a checker box doesn't increase any information the picture carries. (If you argue you want crispier edges, buy a new monitor. 1 pixel checker box is just as crisp as 4 pixel checker box) Here is how we get 1 pixel per box sampling rate: The frequency of the pattern (i.e. signal) is 2 boxes, which means horizontally or vertically, any two points that's 2 checker boxes apart has the same gray-scale value. So the sampling rate should double the frequency (denser, closer...), it is 1 box, double of the frequency of the pattern. This is the difference between Science and Marketing, Propaganda and Ignorance.
I might be ignorant. But I doubt music need 5.1 channel at all. The movie need surround sound because in real life things happens around you. While a band or orchestra usually performes in front of the audience. 5.1 channel may sound good when audience applaude, but other than that what would be the point?
What's wrong is really American education system. Have you ever take a GRE exam? The math in there is laughable.
But anyway, any American student get a B average and willing to go to Graduate school can get Aid. The problem is there are many majors that having trouble attract Americans, like mining, (field study in Dakota:-) agriculture, even physics and math. While the research in those majors still got funding (you can not really shutdown Physics dept.), got teaching assistant positions to fill (you gotta have people to grade the papers), ANY AMERICAN WITH B AVERAGE CAN GET IT.
But it seems they just not interested, instead they drop out of high school and get married at 20 and join the union and protest against WTO.
The thing I don't understand is, what is equal labor right? Labor will be much cheaper in Mexico for a long time to come, even everyone has a car and garage, so Mexico will always be a threat to American labor unions. What can be the solution other than protectionism if you want to keep manufacture jobs in US?
As for Union leaders get dragged out and being shot, now that's a myth that I'd really like to talk about. Isn't democratic goverments, in Iran, Chile, Indonesia just to name a few, got overturned by CIA backed coups? Under the name of containment of communism? Labor in those countries were thought as a front for Communist Party and that's the real reason why they got shot. They really died for "Keeping American Way of Life", which means big corporations can make money and middle class americans can drive to state park having a BBQ on weekend. So after American goverment imposed a dictator on Chile, American NGOs gonna boycott Chilian Company product too?
I have no problem seeing environment be reflected in trade agreement, but how can you talk about labor condition in developed and developing world? It's just like the old immigrant bashing because they are willing to work for less.
I know chinese working in NYC restaraunt 80 hrs a week and still think it's a good life. Yeah, instead of plough in the field and having trouble get enough food, now they are bus boy (which is much less back breaking) and 3 GOOD meals a day. And they are paid less than minimum wage.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't slashdot.org be really slashdot.com long time ago?
.org suffix for slashdot? Marketing smoke to the nerds?
What's this this
I watched TiVo's infomercial the other night. It appears that you need to TiVo connected to phone line to download program schudule in offhours.
My question is, is TiVo also uploading your TV viewing pattern to its database?
I just think it's too tempting an idea for them to miss it.
I wonder what bitrate mp3.com client is encoding CDs into mp3, 96khz?
I'd think a reduced quality copy of a personal collection is tolerable to record companies. This is just my common sense thinking, not contestable by law.
The record company didn't raise a fuss about cassette copy of CDs, but they did fight wars with digital cassette makers in 1980's about preventing digital tape users copying music from CDs.
just my observation.
This gives new meaning to "It's harder for rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
American, or maybe most of human race, are really behaving like dogs -- they run around the world, select some meaningful spot, and urinate to mark his presence, then go home. No wonder Russian sent a dog first into the space.
This story just shows that money doesn't make people smarter, it just amplifies the stupidity.
Saw it on PBS Newshour the other day, from 1974 - 1996, only 9 childern died in commercial airlines, 6 of 9 might die regardless they sit in safty chair or not (read: something like a plane crash).
Requiring a child travel with child safty seat will increase the travel expense of the family. Some family might travel by car instead, which is much less safe than travel by air.
Just another example of your tax money hard at work.
Operator: Hello, Mr. X, I just want to confirm that you want to switch your current long distance carrier from WalMart-CBS-USWest-Qwest-Marlboro to our company HP-Disney-Sears-AT&T, is that correct.
Me: Yes. And I'd like to have DSL internet connection provided by Microsoft-Sun microsytem-3COM-L.L.Bean-Warner-brother.
We'll all talk like this in 10 years.
In my local Publix (Tampa) they only allow you take $20 out at one purchase. Don't know which smartie set that policy.
Also in Publix I saw "Help wanted, full time / part time, stock option available". For 1/2 second I told myself to fill out an application.
I've been with netbank for 1 year, here is my view:
In general, good banking services but not so good in IT implementation.
The Good:
1) free bill pay.
2) 5% (5.13% APY) money market account (now it seems other online banks can top) that.
3) Customer Service is sufficient. I called 3 times (evening) and took me no time to talk to a real person.
The Bad:
1) No Quicken direct download (they have QFX file, but that's high stress work to import it). And the customer assistant told me not to expect it for first half of 2000.
2) Web page is, at least, uninspired and sometimes slow and buggy. internal web based mail system is HARD to use.
I'll drop Net@Bank if I can find a all-in-one investment account with free bill pay and quicken download. But for now it can take care of biz. The drawbacks are not bad enough for me to switch.
Yeah, I agree.
Another similiar issue is room temperature super conductor. In 1989 the progress of critical temperature for super conductor was made daily, with headlines after headlines. Someone even claimed they found the room temperature super conductor material. But in the end the practical material is around liquid nitrogen level. Not bad, but still leave people with more wanting.
How 'bout the dude who made up this freakish calendar.
Otherwise we would be either in Jewish year 5760 or Islam 1420 AH, and we can save all these fuss.
'Time' are just trying to sell their magazines, dude.
And I'm just trying to collect some Karma.
Since when we use famous quote instead of our brain to think?
I'd like to see what's Einstein's view on big bang theory. No, he is not infallable.
How can anyone prove/disprove faith? I guess I have to prove to you beyond any doubt God exists, thus *poof* your faith vanishes. (paraphrase from H2G2).
And of course Time magazine define what "civilized" mean, how could it be otherwise.
I remeber that's why Rome fell into Babarian in 463 A.D.
I don't want to sound like a smart *** here.
...
If you look at your upper arm (left or right), you will see several scars. Now whose idea was that to put those scars on your arm so you and your loved ones are spare of:
Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Plague, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis
And who discovered Penicillin so you didn't die of infection?
something you are lookin' for, is something you can't see
There were butchers before, there will be butchers in the future. Adolf Hitler is just another Alexender the Great (sorry to Macedonians), except his evils were amplified by modern weaponary. Hitler can't do 1 / 1000 th of what he did without the German people's consensus and the fact of unique European internal geo-politic history.
"Kings are slaves of history" -- Tolstoy.
P.S. I thought Pearl Harbor changed America, not Hitler.
P.P.S Earth is much bigger than America.
Interesting prospect. So finally TV and movie will merge into one digital medium. Maybe we could expect to see movie projectors (mini-mature) show up at home, and we could go to movies for free, except that they run commercials every 10 min. during the screening. (I don't care for movie trivias either)
I thought go see a movie means "going out", and watching TV is "staying in". Now I'm depressed, using a line from seinfeld: "When Movie George come in here and meet TV George, World Collide".
*BOOM*
Just saw Kevin Smith's Dogma, cool movie.
The Plot is: Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconscin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it by proving God is fallable, it destory the fundation of God's existence, which is "God is infallable". So the God might just say "good bye" and vanish in a puff... (thus the movie begin)
It seems the life-creating experiment might just make God a little more irrelevent, just like Copernicus, Darwin did.
Just trying to connect the dots here.
This is true:
I went to my local supermarket and read a sign on the checkout counter:
"Help wanted, F/T or P/T, stock option available".
I think it's a good time to liquidate my portfolio and start buying Gold.
So I'm a bear, so what.
I just love to how people times again show themselves as hypocrites. news here
I just think American goverment and media put out imaginary threat to the public to justify their own alternative motive. In the cold war it was the Communists, As one south american politician complains, "anything progressive in the world is regarded by American as communism". U.S. practiced international McCarthyism for 30 years, stage rigged elections, coups, commit assassiations through their puppet goverement. Even today on slashdot people just use "Commie" as a dirty word. What a myth!
After the cold war it's terrorism. Well, a lot of terrorism is the revenge of what U.S. did to other country. Iranians hate U.S. because U.S. overthrown Iran's democratic elected goverment. I am not saying terrorism is right, but it's laughable that U.S. is holding the moral high ground here. People in Congress keeps talking about "Rogue Nation". The term itself is wrong and racist. If you apply your standard to other people, then I'm sure it's fair to some one to call U.S. "rogue nation".
And there were imaginary threat of AIDS, school violence, drugs etc. I am sick n' tired of some "moral majority" leader show up on TV and say (in southern accent) "well, as long as we can save one child, cutting off testicles of sex offender would be worth it". (Imagine George Carlin say that sentence, okay, laugh).
If we continue on this slippery slope, after 200 years U.S. would become as messed up as any old world, with divisions, hatres and depressions. And I hope future generations could migrate to Mars, cuz earth would be the Evil Empire.
I am always curious on this one, hope this is not off topic:
What's the implication if a banner ad that send me a cookie?
As far as I can think of, using this cookie, the ad provider company will know which page I viewed their ad, can they get more info out of this?
We following the Sampling Theory which says: No information would be lost if sampling frequency (CD recording rate) was double the value of signal frequency (human-range sound).
It's like you wanna scan a picture of checker boxes, how many pixels do you use to represent one box ? Only 1 pixel per checker box, using 4 pixel a checker box doesn't increase any information the picture carries. (If you argue you want crispier edges, buy a new monitor. 1 pixel checker box is just as crisp as 4 pixel checker box) Here is how we get 1 pixel per box sampling rate: The frequency of the pattern (i.e. signal) is 2 boxes, which means horizontally or vertically, any two points that's 2 checker boxes apart has the same gray-scale value. So the sampling rate should double the frequency (denser, closer...), it is 1 box, double of the frequency of the pattern. This is the difference between Science and Marketing, Propaganda and Ignorance.
I might be ignorant. But I doubt music need 5.1 channel at all. The movie need surround sound because in real life things happens around you. While a band or orchestra usually performes in front of the audience. 5.1 channel may sound good when audience applaude, but other than that what would be the point?
Maybe good for Church music in pipe organ?
Every 10 years recording companies have to get to a new format to make themselves relevent in Wall Street's equation of :
P/E ratio >= Growth Rate or else.
So now the "Greatest Pianists of 20th Century" CD series has to be re-issued in DVD huh?
MP3 rules!
About international students:
:-) agriculture, even physics and math. While the research in those majors still got funding (you can not really shutdown Physics dept.), got teaching assistant positions to fill (you gotta have people to grade the papers), ANY AMERICAN WITH B AVERAGE CAN GET IT.
What's wrong is really American education system. Have you ever take a GRE exam? The math in there is laughable.
But anyway, any American student get a B average and willing to go to Graduate school can get Aid. The problem is there are many majors that having trouble attract Americans, like mining, (field study in Dakota
But it seems they just not interested, instead they drop out of high school and get married at 20 and join the union and protest against WTO.
I think American kid watch too much TV.
The thing I don't understand is, what is equal labor right? Labor will be much cheaper in Mexico for a long time to come, even everyone has a car and garage, so Mexico will always be a threat to American labor unions. What can be the solution other than protectionism if you want to keep manufacture jobs in US?
As for Union leaders get dragged out and being shot, now that's a myth that I'd really like to talk about. Isn't democratic goverments, in Iran, Chile, Indonesia just to name a few, got overturned by CIA backed coups? Under the name of containment of communism? Labor in those countries were thought as a front for Communist Party and that's the real reason why they got shot. They really died for "Keeping American Way of Life", which means big corporations can make money and middle class americans can drive to state park having a BBQ on weekend. So after American goverment imposed a dictator on Chile, American NGOs gonna boycott Chilian Company product too?
I have no problem seeing environment be reflected in trade agreement, but how can you talk about labor condition in developed and developing world? It's just like the old immigrant bashing because they are willing to work for less.
I know chinese working in NYC restaraunt 80 hrs a week and still think it's a good life. Yeah, instead of plough in the field and having trouble get enough food, now they are bus boy (which is much less back breaking) and 3 GOOD meals a day. And they are paid less than minimum wage.