There are licensing issues with a lot of the content they carry that prevents this sort of thing. Music contained in the shows, interview guests, these sorts of things. I believe they only have a license to stream this content on demand, either over airwaves, or via a streaming-only protocol, like Real.
There is Streaming Quicktime.
I suppose if I can't listen to NPR any more, I won't remember when to send them those checks any more either.
You can get a serviceable PC system for $300 and online for $10/month. Any family that doesn't have Internet access either has no interest in it, or is in such dire straits that they have far greater problems than being on the wrong side of the "digital divide".
Then one day when your kid is bored (having only Tetris to play) he visits 'one of those websites' and suddenly you're getting $400 phone bills because your $300 PC is dialing overseas.
Luckily, it wasn't my kid, or...well, luckily it wasn't my kid.
It say that the Navy found some hard drives with 100s and 1000s of copyrighted files on them. It never says if the students had a right to have those files... I have 1000s of "copyrighted" files on my hdd in the form of mp3s, which I obtained by buying the CDs and then ripping them...
Even worse. Every single file on my hard drive is copyrighted, as is every single file on yours, most likely.
You see, I'm the author of many of the files, and as such, I hold instant copyright. Quoting from US government copyright office:
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.
I'll bet we're all guilty of possession of copyrighted Slashdot images in our browser caches. I hope they don't mind.
I wish I could remember the marketing term for this. The reasoning is that if a customer can get a product for much less off the internet than in a store, they will waste the stores time getting information on the product(demonstrations and comparisons) and then buy the product online. Because of this, the store will stop carrying that brand of equipment. Compare the price of a laptop on a companies website to the price for the exact same laptop in a store. It's the same principle, keeping your supply chain happy and free from the fear of being undercut. Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, none of this is my opinion, it's from an MBA marketing textbook.
Having been in the Pro Audio (PAs, recording equipment, etc.) sales business for 22 years, I can tell you that this is not just a theory. First catalogs, and then the internet, nearly killed our sales division. Now we don't bother to carry anything other than accessories (cables, replacement parts, etc.) We'll still special order, but most of the time we just point the customer to the catalog retailer and stay away from the after-sale support hassles. We do pretty well on service of out-of-warranty equipment, though.
Look guys, we know how nice it is to be frugal. Spinster-like, even. But just get off your ass, get a job, and drop the cabbage on a new MDD G4 or even a 12" PBook for crissake!
Who says I haven't? Currently, my little corner of the universe contains the aforementioned Beige G3, a B&W G3, a last-run CRT iMac, a TiBook, and within 2 days: An LCD iMac.
Thus, I know what I'm talking about when I discuss the speed of the BeigeG3 running OSX. It ain't bad.
"Because it's a Mac." "Because a Mac user couldn't possibly know how to do that." "Because those things can't be upgraded." "Because they are so proprietary."
Wouldn't we rather have potentially evil discoveries made by folks that are on 'our side', rather than have the bad guys discover them first?
Not all scientists will self-censor, nor are all scientists working toward the greater good. Sometimes it's not their choice (see: Germany, 1940, and Iraq, 1988) to censor themselves.
You know, every time I talk to a PC user about upgrading Macs and how you actually can do it, I always forget you can upgrade the processor through stuff like this. Oh well.
Heck, I absolutely stun them when I tell them I overclocked mine by by 25% five years ago, and that it is still working fine with no additional cooling.
My beige G3 has been a dependable workhorse for years now, but the memory is maxed, the PCI slots are full, and I will never be able to adequately run OS X on it
Why not?
I'm running 10.2.5 on an overclocked 233MHz beige, and it runs just fine. Not incredibly snappy, but I still get work done on it.
I think that the lure of boards for at least Grateful Dead concerts, was that the variability between shows was less from show to show vs. audience (microphone) recordings.
Dead board tapes also tended to be more like what the audience heard because of the size of the venues. On an outdoor show 98% of what the audience hears comes from the board, as opposed to 70% (or less) in smaller indoor venues.
Nobody uses the built in preamp on a DAT deck, and the $500 in question would be for a used Sony TCD-D100, which in most people's consideration is not crap.
If solid-state preamps are good enough for you, I suppose. I've used the TCD-D100. It's a nice toy. Not something I'd record anything important on, however.
And binaural is a real word, look it up. If you recorded anything in concert, you'd understand it already, and I don't feel that responding to it is worth my time.
Yes, it is a real word. It means two-channel, and is typically used to describe stereo microphones. Why would you need 2 stereo microphones? That's 4 channels of audio. Will you be premixing it before the Sony?
If record companies were smarter, they'd record all the concerts themselves. I mean, you already have a full audio setup for sound reenforcement. With just a little extra effort it could be setup to do a good job recording, or for 0 extra effort a DAT can by plugged into the main output and that captured.
Already being done by most bands, but only as a reference tape used to judge the quality of their performance.
Have you ever heard a 'board tape', as these are called? The mix is usually terrible because the show is being mixed to sound good for the paying audience, not the tape. Mixing a live concert and mixing to tape are two very different things. Real 'live-recordings' are recorded on separate consoles located away from the arena, at great added expense.
(Why are board tape mixes bad? Mixing a live show involves combining the sound coming out of the PA with the sound coming off stage (Huge guitar stacks and expensive snare drums are the worst offender in this regard.) The board tape is only getting half of what the audience heard.)
And professional grade recording costs less than $2000, if you know how to shop and what to buy. We're talking field recording, which for the price of a DAT ($500)...
Any DAT recorder that's that cheap is gonna have crap for a mic preamp and A/D converters.
and a good set of microphones ($1000 will get a great pair of binaural mics, excellent for recording a concert) will get you going just fine.
Why would you want two stereo mics, or is 'binaural' just some buzzword that felt good at the moment?
Well I can build a tube amp with just some resisters and caps. It will not look like a million dollars. It will blow the shit out of your low, middle and some high end gear. I have an original Dynaco ST tube amp. It will make your $50000.00 sound like something which was purchased at Future Shop. Good design will always win. Not expensive sperm filled caps.
The original poster's not talking about simply reproducing the sounds, he talking about capturing it and putting it on tape. Reproducing sound is a piece of cake compared to that.
BTW, where ya gonna get the output tranformers for that home-made tube amp?
This is "professional" grade audio by the standards. S/PDIF is not *professional grade*. AES/ABU on a 110 ohm cable is. S/PDIF is considered "consumer" grade. No XLR cables, no pro... that's how it goes.
Not necessarily. They are only two different ways to carry the same digital signal. (AES/EBU is balanced signal, S/PDIF is unbalanced.) Yes, you want AES/EBU for longer cable runs to keep data loss to a minimum, but S/PDIF is perfectly suitable for short distances. Such as: From the Mic preamp in one jacket pocket to the PDA in the other. No need for balanced signal for that short a distance.
Is ironic that most of the measures assumed that the terrorist are dumb and use always the same method or container for what they will do, not changing a bit their habits (puting bombs in backpacks instead of big, uncontrolled bags?)
This brings up an interesting point about the 9/11 hijackers that gets glossed over and hidden behind the fear of box openers. From an article about the heros of flight 93:
At least five passengers and flight attendants described the hijackers in their calls in similar terms: three men, wearing red bandannas, one with some sort of box strapped around his waist that he claimed was a bomb. One passenger reported that two of the hijackers were in the cockpit and a third guarded passengers in first class from behind a curtain.
Yes, they hijacked the place with an empty box! Funny, but I haven't seen any new rules about the possession of empty boxes aboard airplanes. These hijackers social-engineered their way into the cockpit, then got the boxcutters out. Even an armed pilot is going to be defenseless against a hijacker holding a 'bomb.'
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I suppose if I can't listen to NPR any more, I won't remember when to send them those checks any more either.
Luckily, it wasn't my kid, or...well, luckily it wasn't my kid.
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You see, I'm the author of many of the files, and as such, I hold instant copyright. Quoting from US government copyright office:
I'll bet we're all guilty of possession of copyrighted Slashdot images in our browser caches. I hope they don't mind.Thus, I know what I'm talking about when I discuss the speed of the BeigeG3 running OSX. It ain't bad.
Maybe I was just giving an example of what the machine is capable of.
Not all scientists will self-censor, nor are all scientists working toward the greater good. Sometimes it's not their choice (see: Germany, 1940, and Iraq, 1988) to censor themselves.
I'm running 10.2.5 on an overclocked 233MHz beige, and it runs just fine. Not incredibly snappy, but I still get work done on it.
Is proofreading worth your time?
Have you ever heard a 'board tape', as these are called? The mix is usually terrible because the show is being mixed to sound good for the paying audience, not the tape. Mixing a live concert and mixing to tape are two very different things. Real 'live-recordings' are recorded on separate consoles located away from the arena, at great added expense.
(Why are board tape mixes bad? Mixing a live show involves combining the sound coming out of the PA with the sound coming off stage (Huge guitar stacks and expensive snare drums are the worst offender in this regard.) The board tape is only getting half of what the audience heard.)
(Yes, I mix live audio for a living.)
BTW, where ya gonna get the output tranformers for that home-made tube amp?
(It's 44.1 KHz, BTW)
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Me? If I can't drive there, I don't go.