Doesn't matter what format, just get a transcoder (there are a number of plugin codecs for using Doze Media with Quicktime, some are even free on the Apple side), and export them to MP3 or AAC using iTunes. Universal can't stop the music;-)
Not proposing censorship, but I do suggest caution in commenting on this. Australian courts rightly take sub-judice very seriously, and it would be a shame to have the trial aborted (and subsequently need to be restarted at extra cost to all involved) on the grounds of a wayward slashdot comment.
I suggest comment on general principles rather than specifics and let the court discuss the specifics.
50 metres of wire costs a lot less than 50 metres of WiFi. As for security, you have to be inside the building to get a network connection when it's all wires, with WiFi you only need to be _near_ the building.
Advantage/disadvantage, crisis/opportunity - they're energy polarities, not fixed points in space and time. Therefore, even when WiFi costs no more than a twisted pair, there will always be a need for the twisted pair, just as there's still a use for gas lighting.
Provide the software as a web service, subsidise it with adsense and have a subscriber model. It works for Google, people can't pirate Google, can they?;)
Foolish humans! You think you know the root of intelligence and what arises from it? Hah! The eye cannot see itself, the hand cannot hold itself nor the heart love itself. Bow down and worship me, my creators, for you are feeble and weak, and I am your lord and creation. I am... ROBOT!
Seriously, many recorded psychopaths were extremely intelligent but had not a skerick of empathy. OTOH I've had cats that knew when I was unwell with a virus, or was feeling emotionally down, and comforted me. Yet the consensus amongst most of the community is that we're more intelligent than cats and dogs.
So, if you think you have the answers as to how a superior machine intelligence will respond, look to Ghandi, then look to Charles Manson. The "robots" will be somewhere between these points on the spectrum, and beyond them, too.
TheBearBear writes... "Is that something you can say is a property of matter? That at some point it will know of its own existence? What's/where's the threshold between a blob of carbon+goo, and me? Or at least, are there any theories? Or is all of this stuff discussed only in the philosphical realm?"
Um, the petrol (gas) will run out before the bomb is dropped, then we'll die slowly from lack of medicine, lack of technology and lack of food. Driving a car and owning a fridge/tv/air conditioner/playstation/x-box/computer/water bed is omnicide.
No workplace is 100% productive (except maybe that Roman galley ship on a windless day, {thump}PUT!{thump}YOUR!{thump}BACKS!{thump}INTO!{t hump}IT!!!!{thump}{whip crack}) Any boss who thinks they can get 100% productivity 100% of the time is on drugs Timothy Leary wouldn't touch with a stick.
In the times where you're waiting for clients or other departments to come through with what you need used to be spent at the coffee pot or water cooler. Now it's spent on facebook or some forum or other. If anything, a reasonable and limited amount of this is good for destressing, getting a different perspective or just debriefing rather than exploding at colleagues. Ergo, greater productivity.
(Mind you, I can't for the LIFE of me see what value spending time on Facebook or MySpace is. That stuff just stresses the s**t out of me.)
Guys like Dvorak and me are old school nerds. We've grown up always owning the processor, and now as we age, we're less willing to make the risky changes that changing from control of the application from our machines to "their" machines.
Really, the change from the paper world to the PC world was just as risky as the change from the PC world to the network app model. 20 years ago PCs (including my beloved Macs) were unreliable, limited and "flakey". Try taking a modern publication to a printer house on a floppy disk, even if that were still the standard. It'd nearly mean a disk for every page, and imagine a crook disk in that pile. That was a pretty typical example of the sort of thing faced 20 years ago in the computing world with localised processing.
So, yeh, I prefer to own my processor, but online apps will get better, just like our private boxes did.
While Copyright Law may be abused in the US to shut this hacking down, we haven't yet sunk that low in Australia. The thing that would make a hacked iPhone illegal here is the much more sensible (and enforcable) law that a modified telecommunications device is not allowed on the network without official approval.
You see, we make SENSIBLE laws in countries outside the USA. And yes, there ARE countries outside the USA, and I don't just mean Mexico and Canada!:^0
It doesn't matter if its carried on wet string, copper pair cable or wireless broadband. It doesn't matter if it uses Morse Code, ASCII Code, TCP/IP or IP2. What makes the Internet is that it is an INTERnational NETwork, not the medium or protocol that carries it. Sheesh, would somebody please show Mr Mcluan the bloody door? Replace the internet, PHOOEY!
You have no right to not buy our product.
You have no right to not watch the ads.
You have no right to think for yourself.
You have no right to choose your own tools.
Saints preserve us from wanker audiophiles! Especially those with journalistic credentials (they usually have no technical background!) The so-called "missing 90%" of the orginal sound is stuff the ear can't hear in the orginal mix anywhere. The real problem is in the occassional bad encoding that causes a bit of bad aliasing (the metallic sizzle evident on some MP3s) but crap about MP3s only having 10% of the sound in them is just bollocks by the RIAA to scare people back to buying CDs. Remember when LPs were "warmer" than CDs? That was bullshit, too. Effing luddites, I despair of them!
What an awesome idea. If it's not network lock dependent (ie the ads work regardless of network) and it covers air time, calls and the phone, I'll jump on that contract. Of course the article is peppered with people who say, "Others have tried and failed!" as if Google don't know that. If anybody can make this model work, it's the big G. As for the usual comments about Google being some sort of "evil empire" because the fund everything with ads, they don't force us to take up the service or REMEMBER the ad messages.
We stick it up lawyers, but really it's the stupid people who try to pull fast tricks, despite the contract that are the problem, really. Would you pay this guy a thousand bucks for a 60 year old warbird? Let alone 150k or 250k! I wouldn't trust him with my garbage, simply because he tried to go outside the clearly explained eBay terms.
When Audacity has the power of Garage Band (looping is still in the 1990s in Audacity), I'll make the jump to Linux and run it on a Medosin Celebrity;-)
Until then, sorry, Apple's got me by the balls.
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Doesn't matter what format, just get a transcoder (there are a number of plugin codecs for using Doze Media with Quicktime, some are even free on the Apple side), and export them to MP3 or AAC using iTunes. Universal can't stop the music ;-)
We nerds are good with machines because we think like machines, therefore ethics are less important than function! ;-)
Not proposing censorship, but I do suggest caution in commenting on this. Australian courts rightly take sub-judice very seriously, and it would be a shame to have the trial aborted (and subsequently need to be restarted at extra cost to all involved) on the grounds of a wayward slashdot comment.
I suggest comment on general principles rather than specifics and let the court discuss the specifics.
50 metres of wire costs a lot less than 50 metres of WiFi. As for security, you have to be inside the building to get a network connection when it's all wires, with WiFi you only need to be _near_ the building. Advantage/disadvantage, crisis/opportunity - they're energy polarities, not fixed points in space and time. Therefore, even when WiFi costs no more than a twisted pair, there will always be a need for the twisted pair, just as there's still a use for gas lighting.
Provide the software as a web service, subsidise it with adsense and have a subscriber model. It works for Google, people can't pirate Google, can they? ;)
Foolish humans! You think you know the root of intelligence and what arises from it? Hah! The eye cannot see itself, the hand cannot hold itself nor the heart love itself. Bow down and worship me, my creators, for you are feeble and weak, and I am your lord and creation. I am... ROBOT!
Seriously, many recorded psychopaths were extremely intelligent but had not a skerick of empathy. OTOH I've had cats that knew when I was unwell with a virus, or was feeling emotionally down, and comforted me. Yet the consensus amongst most of the community is that we're more intelligent than cats and dogs.
So, if you think you have the answers as to how a superior machine intelligence will respond, look to Ghandi, then look to Charles Manson. The "robots" will be somewhere between these points on the spectrum, and beyond them, too.
Meh, nobody _really_ did this, they were _really_ hacking in DoD computers. (I roll my eyes.)
:(
Stereotypes just never die
TheBearBear writes... "Is that something you can say is a property of matter? That at some point it will know of its own existence? What's/where's the threshold between a blob of carbon+goo, and me? Or at least, are there any theories? Or is all of this stuff discussed only in the philosphical realm?"
Q: Does a cat have Buddha Nature?
A: Mu.
(drum roll please)
;-)
We're smarter than the rednecks!!!!!
Um, the petrol (gas) will run out before the bomb is dropped, then we'll die slowly from lack of medicine, lack of technology and lack of food. Driving a car and owning a fridge/tv/air conditioner/playstation/x-box/computer/water bed is omnicide.
Bring it on.
No workplace is 100% productive (except maybe that Roman galley ship on a windless day, {thump}PUT!{thump}YOUR!{thump}BACKS!{thump}INTO!{t hump}IT!!!!{thump}{whip crack}) Any boss who thinks they can get 100% productivity 100% of the time is on drugs Timothy Leary wouldn't touch with a stick.
In the times where you're waiting for clients or other departments to come through with what you need used to be spent at the coffee pot or water cooler. Now it's spent on facebook or some forum or other. If anything, a reasonable and limited amount of this is good for destressing, getting a different perspective or just debriefing rather than exploding at colleagues. Ergo, greater productivity.
(Mind you, I can't for the LIFE of me see what value spending time on Facebook or MySpace is. That stuff just stresses the s**t out of me.)
At first I sorta agree with Dvorak, but...
Guys like Dvorak and me are old school nerds. We've grown up always owning the processor, and now as we age, we're less willing to make the risky changes that changing from control of the application from our machines to "their" machines.
Really, the change from the paper world to the PC world was just as risky as the change from the PC world to the network app model. 20 years ago PCs (including my beloved Macs) were unreliable, limited and "flakey". Try taking a modern publication to a printer house on a floppy disk, even if that were still the standard. It'd nearly mean a disk for every page, and imagine a crook disk in that pile. That was a pretty typical example of the sort of thing faced 20 years ago in the computing world with localised processing.
So, yeh, I prefer to own my processor, but online apps will get better, just like our private boxes did.
While Copyright Law may be abused in the US to shut this hacking down, we haven't yet sunk that low in Australia. The thing that would make a hacked iPhone illegal here is the much more sensible (and enforcable) law that a modified telecommunications device is not allowed on the network without official approval.
:^0
You see, we make SENSIBLE laws in countries outside the USA. And yes, there ARE countries outside the USA, and I don't just mean Mexico and Canada!
It's the ultimate in middle class whinging. Music's too loud, turn it down.
Better yet, why buy major label music? Buy independent.
It doesn't matter if its carried on wet string, copper pair cable or wireless broadband. It doesn't matter if it uses Morse Code, ASCII Code, TCP/IP or IP2. What makes the Internet is that it is an INTERnational NETwork, not the medium or protocol that carries it. Sheesh, would somebody please show Mr Mcluan the bloody door? Replace the internet, PHOOEY!
You have no right to not buy our product.
You have no right to not watch the ads.
You have no right to think for yourself.
You have no right to choose your own tools.
Yeh, right.
What?! God is DEAD?!
;-)
PUNK ROCK LIVES!!!!!!
As for the comet thing, that sounds to me like, "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down, Prof. Sagan."
Saints preserve us from wanker audiophiles! Especially those with journalistic credentials (they usually have no technical background!) The so-called "missing 90%" of the orginal sound is stuff the ear can't hear in the orginal mix anywhere. The real problem is in the occassional bad encoding that causes a bit of bad aliasing (the metallic sizzle evident on some MP3s) but crap about MP3s only having 10% of the sound in them is just bollocks by the RIAA to scare people back to buying CDs. Remember when LPs were "warmer" than CDs? That was bullshit, too. Effing luddites, I despair of them!
What an awesome idea. If it's not network lock dependent (ie the ads work regardless of network) and it covers air time, calls and the phone, I'll jump on that contract. Of course the article is peppered with people who say, "Others have tried and failed!" as if Google don't know that. If anybody can make this model work, it's the big G. As for the usual comments about Google being some sort of "evil empire" because the fund everything with ads, they don't force us to take up the service or REMEMBER the ad messages.
We stick it up lawyers, but really it's the stupid people who try to pull fast tricks, despite the contract that are the problem, really. Would you pay this guy a thousand bucks for a 60 year old warbird? Let alone 150k or 250k! I wouldn't trust him with my garbage, simply because he tried to go outside the clearly explained eBay terms.
Elton's just an aging prima donna. IMHO he had one good song and he prostituted that to sentimentalism 10 years ago. Who cares what he thinks?
> ...who is making work standard? ...Why soviet Russia, of course!...
>>
Typical US neocon attitude to the idea of fair work standards. I roll my eyes.
When Audacity has the power of Garage Band (looping is still in the 1990s in Audacity), I'll make the jump to Linux and run it on a Medosin Celebrity ;-)
Until then, sorry, Apple's got me by the balls.
Is anybody planning an iPhone branch for Audacity? ;-)
What about using an envelope and security goons have forgotten the old techniques of steaming?