This makes sense for all of their albums past Meddle (well, including Meddle, really), since they were "concept albums" and are intended to be listened to straight through. There are very few Pink Floyd tracks that can be appreciated to the fullest as a single track.
Sadly, this is something that is lost on record labels today; they're in it for the quick buck rather than slowly nurturing future stadium-filling dinosaurs. Why invest in real artists who are composers, lyricists and musicians and will sell only to a cult following for the first 2-3 albums until they hit critical mass and make it really big, when you can just hire some young skank with big tits who can barely sing but is listenable when you run her voice through three levels of vocal processing, and you have songs already written by other writers and just need a pretty face to make a quick buck selling music and of course posters and other merchandise? Instead of making huge profits down the road they're in it for the now, with a steady stream of moderately-selling hits, and when the "pop artist" proves to be a train wreck and wigs out after a drug overdose or breakup or other drama queen crap, you already have songs and session musicians ready to be paired up with another young skank you can market.
I miss concept albums; most such artists recorded before my time (mostly my parents' generation) but progressive rock is my favorite genre. I can listen to practically very Pink Floyd album over and over and over again without getting sick of them. There are not many artists or even genres I can say that about, except possibly classical. In fact, most progressive rock is concerned about structure/form and quality that it could almost be considered a modern form of classical. It's not the overcompressed, over-processed vocals crap that has no semblance of dynamic range that passes for "pop" music today. Listen to Umagumma sometime; it was intended to be a purely experimental album (they did some really funky stuff including even partially disassembling pianos and modifying them) in its time (a double album with a live recording disc as a bonus) and the members of PF are embarassed about it today, but it's still really interesting to listen to with the volume turned up. The dynamic range is phenomenal and that alone makes it worth listening to, and Rick's tracks in particular are really enjoyable. Roger's tracks, well, they're just weird, especially "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (I didn't even have to look up the title to check it- despite the length it's title not easily forgotten) but the weirdness doesn't detract from its interesting nature.
I'm glad they took this stand. I own every album of theirs (as well as every unauthorised bootleg I've found in music stores, such as "the eclipse" and a few other Italian-origin box sets) and have most of them ripped to my iPhone, and listen to them quite often - and most of the time I listen to them in the order originally intended. The songs are so interelated and transition very well going from one to the other that I think splitting them apart would be a shame, because people who are just discovering the genre now would miss out on fully enjoying the compositions.
Editing images is faster, especially with the megapixel race in the consumer, prosumer, and professional camera markets.
Editing video is not only becoming easy for home users, but is becoming almost realtime in terms of seeing results.
Embroidery and illustration packages improve a LOT.
oblig: Also, on the typical home machine, this will reap a huge net gain in every day computing, Now four cores can be dedicated to botnet daemons/services and other malware, and one can run Internet Explorer and one core could run the totally ineffective Norton Internet Security suite.;)
Then, processors had 250K or fewer transistors (not to mention other components) and 8 to 24 pins to communicate through, and ran somewhere between 700kHz and 8MHz (or 33MHz at the end of the 80s, which is later than the time you indicate), chip tracings were what, several microns, and were high voltage and low current compared to today's components. Also, heat sinks and fans were not required by most processors at the time. Even the mighty Motorola 68K and the i386 usually didn't sport heat sinks.
Now, processors and chipsets feature over one billion transistors (not to mention other components), with various components running between 300MHz and 4GHz, with many sections of chips running at 1.5v or less but requiring much more current, feature nm-scale circuit tracings, require careful design to prevent RFI, and will literally burn up within seconds if run without significant cooling in place.
Things are a bit more complex now. It's not like you can slap everything onto a simple, passive altair bus backplane and end up with a reliable AND high speed computer. Sure, there are blade computer options, as well as supercomputers which allow you to plug in additional CPU modules into a bus, but then you're talking a computer costing tens of thousands to millions of dollars; not something you'd see in a medium sized business or even many enterprises, and certainly not in the home. Heck, in most businesses you're sometimes lucky to get a PHB to approve a dual socket server with 4 core processors (8 way processing) or four-socket system, let alone big iron. Even in 25 user companies it's often difficult to get management to agree to a proper server. People always want cheap, cheaper, and cheapest.
To say "it isn't that big a trick" was true back in the day. Now components need to be closer together, run at lower voltages, communicate at much higher speeds (frequencies), and be cheap.
2003 media is unavailable from the major distributors, including Ingram Micro and MA Labs. I ordered them all at once from vendors which appeared to have media in stock so I had no way to know OK, one was fake, so order another, and so forth. It wasn't a matter of trying to find Win2K3 cheap, it was an issue of being able to get the media to go with the license for the client. Period.
Nice of you people to make assumptions though. But then again, this is slashdot.
Newegg has to track outgoing inventory to prevent internal theft,
How do you propose that they do that when some items are blind shipped from their suppliers? What you are suggesting will probably work for CPUs (they probably buy in bulk so they can beat even many distributors' pricing) but what about items they contract their suppliers to drop ship? Also, keep in mind that this will increase costs, and Newegg will have to either raise prices, cut back customer service, or both. Or, they could do what they continued to do and give customers the benefit of the doubt while they quickly investigate.
About D&H's actions
Now, D&H is in the right to protect their information. The only problem I see is their C&D letter goes too far; they demand that any and all references to them be removed from the sites. That's going further than they need to. They may "feel" like they are justified in doing so, but they are not really. They are justified in demanding that the false accusations be removed, but that's about it.
Without TTL/E-TTL it's pretty much useless. You may as well use the built-in flash and a couple of standalone optically-triggered flashes and probably get better results.
or, try buying Windows 2003 Server from any seller on feeBay or Amazon. There is a good chance every single Windows 2003 product on either site is counterfeit. I bought from six different sellers and every single one was counterfeit (same exact style packaging, etc.) and I reported each instance in detail (including detailed descriptions of the media, packaging, the COA decals, what software was actually on the media, etc. and even tested the product keys with a known-legitimate system builder kit. Each amazon storefront/ebay seller has since been shut down/disabled). I've since turned to buying Windows 2008 and installing Windows 2003 via downgrade rights with our last remaining system builder kit for the install. Right now I consider that media to be worth its weight in gold.
Counterfeits abound. The sad reality is people and vendors who "pirate"[sic] cracked torrents have a superior experience from beginning to end.
What exactly will this round of "Halt! Papers please!" solve?
Prospective employers are already required to provide a (Social Security or TIN card) AND (birth certificate OR proof of voter registration). Illegal aliens (the correct legal term; illegal aliens are not immigrants they are criminal trespassers) already cannot provide that information and yet they are here leaching off of society. I know quite a few people who have immigrated or are immigrating legally and it's a royal pain in the butt for them, is usually a long process, prone to delays and huge legal expenses, while the people who are here illegally are living off of our backs (in many cases receiving welfare, "free"[sic] health care, etc.) and are pushing for amnesty. WTF? Our system is seriously broken and much like "pirated"[sic] Windows, entering illegally(read: invading) is often easier than immigrating (read: the legal way).
If I had my way, all illegal aliens who have been leaching off of our system would all be plunked down in the middle of the pacific in tiny rowboats and left to fend for themselves, especially the ones who come here and fly foreign flags and insist that forms be handed to them in languages other than American English.
Any sensible user protects their computer from attacks.
When you don't run Windows, you (generally) don't need to worry about anti spyware|antivirus|antimalware crud to slow down your computer. So, until the ads became totally obnoxious, it was a non-issue.
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How can anyone ever forget http://www.khaaan.com/ ?
Captain, we've gone warp and still can't keep up!
That's somewhat close to the rate of intersex conditions in mammals, including humans.
This makes sense for all of their albums past Meddle (well, including Meddle, really), since they were "concept albums" and are intended to be listened to straight through. There are very few Pink Floyd tracks that can be appreciated to the fullest as a single track.
Sadly, this is something that is lost on record labels today; they're in it for the quick buck rather than slowly nurturing future stadium-filling dinosaurs. Why invest in real artists who are composers, lyricists and musicians and will sell only to a cult following for the first 2-3 albums until they hit critical mass and make it really big, when you can just hire some young skank with big tits who can barely sing but is listenable when you run her voice through three levels of vocal processing, and you have songs already written by other writers and just need a pretty face to make a quick buck selling music and of course posters and other merchandise? Instead of making huge profits down the road they're in it for the now, with a steady stream of moderately-selling hits, and when the "pop artist" proves to be a train wreck and wigs out after a drug overdose or breakup or other drama queen crap, you already have songs and session musicians ready to be paired up with another young skank you can market.
I miss concept albums; most such artists recorded before my time (mostly my parents' generation) but progressive rock is my favorite genre. I can listen to practically very Pink Floyd album over and over and over again without getting sick of them. There are not many artists or even genres I can say that about, except possibly classical. In fact, most progressive rock is concerned about structure/form and quality that it could almost be considered a modern form of classical. It's not the overcompressed, over-processed vocals crap that has no semblance of dynamic range that passes for "pop" music today. Listen to Umagumma sometime; it was intended to be a purely experimental album (they did some really funky stuff including even partially disassembling pianos and modifying them) in its time (a double album with a live recording disc as a bonus) and the members of PF are embarassed about it today, but it's still really interesting to listen to with the volume turned up. The dynamic range is phenomenal and that alone makes it worth listening to, and Rick's tracks in particular are really enjoyable. Roger's tracks, well, they're just weird, especially "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (I didn't even have to look up the title to check it- despite the length it's title not easily forgotten) but the weirdness doesn't detract from its interesting nature.
I'm glad they took this stand. I own every album of theirs (as well as every unauthorised bootleg I've found in music stores, such as "the eclipse" and a few other Italian-origin box sets) and have most of them ripped to my iPhone, and listen to them quite often - and most of the time I listen to them in the order originally intended. The songs are so interelated and transition very well going from one to the other that I think splitting them apart would be a shame, because people who are just discovering the genre now would miss out on fully enjoying the compositions.
I'd love to track down a lot of the ROIO bootlegs (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_recording and http://www.pf-roio.de/roio/roio-cd-index-name.html ), especially Pre-animals concerts where they played "raving and drooling" (which I've never heard) and also various recordings of The Wall concerts, especially the part where Roger ad-libs prior to "Run like Hell."
Sadly, I do not own any Pink Floyd works on vinyl. :(
Editing images is faster, especially with the megapixel race in the consumer, prosumer, and professional camera markets.
Editing video is not only becoming easy for home users, but is becoming almost realtime in terms of seeing results.
Embroidery and illustration packages improve a LOT.
oblig: ;)
Also, on the typical home machine, this will reap a huge net gain in every day computing, Now four cores can be dedicated to botnet daemons/services and other malware, and one can run Internet Explorer and one core could run the totally ineffective Norton Internet Security suite.
Then, processors had 250K or fewer transistors (not to mention other components) and 8 to 24 pins to communicate through, and ran somewhere between 700kHz and 8MHz (or 33MHz at the end of the 80s, which is later than the time you indicate), chip tracings were what, several microns, and were high voltage and low current compared to today's components. Also, heat sinks and fans were not required by most processors at the time. Even the mighty Motorola 68K and the i386 usually didn't sport heat sinks.
Now, processors and chipsets feature over one billion transistors (not to mention other components), with various components running between 300MHz and 4GHz, with many sections of chips running at 1.5v or less but requiring much more current, feature nm-scale circuit tracings, require careful design to prevent RFI, and will literally burn up within seconds if run without significant cooling in place.
Things are a bit more complex now. It's not like you can slap everything onto a simple, passive altair bus backplane and end up with a reliable AND high speed computer. Sure, there are blade computer options, as well as supercomputers which allow you to plug in additional CPU modules into a bus, but then you're talking a computer costing tens of thousands to millions of dollars; not something you'd see in a medium sized business or even many enterprises, and certainly not in the home. Heck, in most businesses you're sometimes lucky to get a PHB to approve a dual socket server with 4 core processors (8 way processing) or four-socket system, let alone big iron. Even in 25 user companies it's often difficult to get management to agree to a proper server. People always want cheap, cheaper, and cheapest.
To say
"it isn't that big a trick" was true back in the day. Now components need to be closer together, run at lower voltages, communicate at much higher speeds (frequencies), and be cheap.
. . . both approved by the FDA.
Is it any more risky than having vertebrate fused, or having teflon discs inserted in the place of natural cartilage?
2003 media is unavailable from the major distributors, including Ingram Micro and MA Labs. I ordered them all at once from vendors which appeared to have media in stock so I had no way to know OK, one was fake, so order another, and so forth. It wasn't a matter of trying to find Win2K3 cheap, it was an issue of being able to get the media to go with the license for the client. Period.
Nice of you people to make assumptions though. But then again, this is slashdot.
six different vendors all with good feedback. I would have expected the Amazon vendors in particular to be reputable.
How do you propose that they do that when some items are blind shipped from their suppliers? What you are suggesting will probably work for CPUs (they probably buy in bulk so they can beat even many distributors' pricing) but what about items they contract their suppliers to drop ship? Also, keep in mind that this will increase costs, and Newegg will have to either raise prices, cut back customer service, or both. Or, they could do what they continued to do and give customers the benefit of the doubt while they quickly investigate.
About D&H's actions
Now, D&H is in the right to protect their information. The only problem I see is their C&D letter goes too far; they demand that any and all references to them be removed from the sites. That's going further than they need to. They may "feel" like they are justified in doing so, but they are not really. They are justified in demanding that the false accusations be removed, but that's about it.
Without TTL/E-TTL it's pretty much useless. You may as well use the built-in flash and a couple of standalone optically-triggered flashes and probably get better results.
or, try buying Windows 2003 Server from any seller on feeBay or Amazon. There is a good chance every single Windows 2003 product on either site is counterfeit. I bought from six different sellers and every single one was counterfeit (same exact style packaging, etc.) and I reported each instance in detail (including detailed descriptions of the media, packaging, the COA decals, what software was actually on the media, etc. and even tested the product keys with a known-legitimate system builder kit. Each amazon storefront/ebay seller has since been shut down/disabled). I've since turned to buying Windows 2008 and installing Windows 2003 via downgrade rights with our last remaining system builder kit for the install. Right now I consider that media to be worth its weight in gold.
Counterfeits abound. The sad reality is people and vendors who "pirate"[sic] cracked torrents have a superior experience from beginning to end.
It was when they first switched to IDE
My roommate knows next to nothing about computers (she doesn't even know what a server is) but she knows her iPhone is a powerful handheld computer.
No, it does not come preloaded, but there's an app for that.
What exactly will this round of "Halt! Papers please!" solve?
Prospective employers are already required to provide a (Social Security or TIN card) AND (birth certificate OR proof of voter registration). Illegal aliens (the correct legal term; illegal aliens are not immigrants they are criminal trespassers) already cannot provide that information and yet they are here leaching off of society. I know quite a few people who have immigrated or are immigrating legally and it's a royal pain in the butt for them, is usually a long process, prone to delays and huge legal expenses, while the people who are here illegally are living off of our backs (in many cases receiving welfare, "free"[sic] health care, etc.) and are pushing for amnesty. WTF? Our system is seriously broken and much like "pirated"[sic] Windows, entering illegally(read: invading) is often easier than immigrating (read: the legal way).
If I had my way, all illegal aliens who have been leaching off of our system would all be plunked down in the middle of the pacific in tiny rowboats and left to fend for themselves, especially the ones who come here and fly foreign flags and insist that forms be handed to them in languages other than American English.
When you don't run Windows, you (generally) don't need to worry about anti spyware|antivirus|antimalware crud to slow down your computer. So, until the ads became totally obnoxious, it was a non-issue.
Tosh already cracked one. All it took was a golf club.
Multitasking works great for:
* Pandora
* Rhapsody
* Navigation apps, when calls come in they don't suspend on you
and yet, some other providers manage to provide unlimited voice and data for less.
Yes, but unfortunately it will only run Crysis on Windows XP. For Vista, you have to wait for the 16-core, I'm afraid. :-/
So let me get this straight: the pirated[sic]/counterfeit product is superior to the real thing, just like with Windows?
I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
Well, not that shocked.
Q. What would you do if you had a million compilers?
A. Two chips at the same time
Why does ABC even need this, considering their revenue comes largely from advertising?