No, the article was sampling cassettes and vinyl, but you can plug your radio's headphone jack into your PC just as easily as a cassette deck and the procedure is the same. Note the FA said it would defeat any audio copy protection - your CD player has a headphone jack too.
It is indeed not competetion to CD sales, as FM isn't CD quality. It is competetion to paid downloads, which are no better quality than radio samples and have Drastically Rediculous Monkeyshines (DRM).
won't be able to assemble the entire album in most cases
True, unless you live in St Louis. Most downloaders are after singles, not CDs.
Yes, your single will have the "radio edit" which is pretty much the same in most cases as buying the CD at WalMart ("You're crazy but I like the way you.... me"). You can fade the song early when the DJ starts talking over it or they fade it into th enext song. We geezers were recording tapes from the radio for a long time before anybody downloaded anything. I've turned some of the downloaded tapes into MP3. The other night guests were freaked out by a Rush song that got garbled in the middle of it at a spot where the radio's signal had faded; I had sampled the cassette that was recorded from the radio, and the radio signal got lost for a few seconds during recording. Except for that couple of seconds it was indistinguishable from a ripped or downloaded MP3.
you're going to do over $20 worth of work to get a crappy recording of part of an album
Only if you make $300 an hour. If you sampe an album from KSHE it will take all of five minutes of your time to turn it into a CD with proper skip points. It won't be CD quality, as FM broadcasts aren't CD quality.
Again, I agree it doesn't compete with CD sales, but it does compete with single download sales. Personally I don't see the point in renting lossily compressed DRM crippled WMA or AAC files.
You wouldn't need to prove intent, any more than you must prove that you intended to drive drunk. Like driving drunk, it's a felony to shine a laser at an aircraft whether you intended to or not. It's also far more stupid and dangerous than driving drunk.
No, the debris from the falling police helicopter might fall on your farm and harm your crop. Wait until they land and then shoot them with a ground to ground missle.
Oh oh, I think we're both on a "no fly" list now. I'm glad, I hate flies.
In Illinois, if you get caught driving drunk you will spend at least the night in jail and afterwards be jailed and/or fined in addition. How many people can a drunk driver kill? How much property damage can a drunk driver cause?
If your laser pointer disorients a pilot and he crashes his police helicopter or worse, a passenger liner into a neighborhood how many people would it kill? How much property damage could it cause?
Seems to me that shining lasers at aircraft is a lot more dangerous than driving with a.08 BAC, and should have a lot harsher penalties.
The green ones are more powerful, but it doesn't natter. You could disorient a pilot with a simple presentation pointer causeing him to crash the aircraft, perhaps right on top of you.
I wasn't flying a helicopter, though. My retina had torn, and the surgeon welded it back together.
I fail to see why this story made slashdot. I read a newspaper article last year IIRC about a fellow getting jailed for shining a laser at a commercial air liner, which would be far more dangerous than shining it at a police helicopter. Well, to anybody but the guy with the laser anyway.
The danger, of course, is that the pilot will be blinded or disoriented and could crash the vehicle. After the surgery on my retina I couldn't see out of that eye for several hours. A passenger liner crash would kill more passengers than a helicopter with a couple of cops in it, and as it's bigger and has lots more fuel could kill more people on the ground.
If you're going to shine lasers at cops, do it on the ground. It will likely be the last thing you ever do, as they'll just figure you've got a laser sighted gun shoot you dead.
Dude, you saw my submission from Wednesday in the Firehose; it's still pending. It's not a dupe unless that one gets accepted, and even then this won't be a dupe, mine will. And it's not a hoax; try RTFA (same FA linked as my submission)
...we'll be forced to listen to more adverts, which in turn will prompt me to discontinue radio as an entertainment medium.
Already did it for me. My car's radio has 10 presets and as soon as I hear an announcer I punch buttons until I hear music, and keep punching if crap music comes on. If I go through all ten there's another button that starts up the CD changer.
At home my radio is locked to WQNA, a "250 watt non-commercial community volunteer/student station" that has no advertising at all an plays everything from old blues (a freind has a blues show on Sunday afternoon) to jazz to punk rock to heavy metal to worldmusic to... well actually there's not a genre I haven't heard on that station. I once heard a Tennessee Ernie Ford song followed by a Dead Kennedys song followed by a Johnny Cash song. But I'm starting to get offtopic so I'll stop (the web page is BAD and I don't mean that in the good sense)
At any rate, the point I'm getting away from is I already don't listen to commercials on the radio.
Of course, it isn't a perfect analogy, because unlike flowers, radio stations aren't producing what they're giving away.
Actually it is - radio gives the artist exposure, and unlike the other goods that are advertised on the radio, music's manufacturers get it for free. In this case, the advsrtising is the pollen and the label is the bee.
With Republicans in the hands of big business and Democrats in the hands of Hollywood
The Bono Act (AKA "Mickey Mouse Perpetual Copyright Extension Act") passed on a 100% vote (both parties voted "yes", and "the people's guy" Obama voting to "reform" bankrupcy laws by making them useless to anyone but the bankers, it should be clear to all that the Republicans and the Democrats are two wings of the same corporate party.
Well air time needs to be loosed. I mean, let it run around the yard at least. Poor air time, I'm calling the APCAT (Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Air Time). And for crying out loud feed the poor thing!
I think this will ad variety
That's a good thing, advertising needs more variety.
Then PLEASE list a few good hard rock bands besides Buckcherry that debued in this century. I'm not talking about whiners like Hinder, either. Somebody needs to give today's RIAA "rock" stars some Zoloft.
In the words of one of the guys in the indie ska band the Pietasters (live album), "Zoloft - because life's too fucking good!"
Quite a few of the bands that I like (Nickelback)
Nickleback? Never mind. They're no better than Justin Timberlake. People say RIAA music sucks because we hear it on the radio.
OK now I feel guilty railing against the RIAA's war against internet radio and P2P, always pointing out that they're like radio only the RIAA can't control them, and that all you have to do to get all the free top 40 MP3s you want is plug your headphone jack into the radio and sample.
But then again perhaps this will herald the advent of "indie music" (i.e., anything not produced by an RIAA label) on the radio.
Record labels or Clear Channel and their ilk, who to root against? A pox on both their houses.
might this game actually see the light of day after so much talk?
Well if it does then we won't have to put a stake through this undead thing's heart, will we? The question in my mind, though, is "are they still planning on using the Quake II engine?"
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Certainly the cop's testimony will be weighted 100x theirs.
There, fixed tat for you.
No, the article was sampling cassettes and vinyl, but you can plug your radio's headphone jack into your PC just as easily as a cassette deck and the procedure is the same. Note the FA said it would defeat any audio copy protection - your CD player has a headphone jack too.
It is indeed not competetion to CD sales, as FM isn't CD quality. It is competetion to paid downloads, which are no better quality than radio samples and have Drastically Rediculous Monkeyshines (DRM).
won't be able to assemble the entire album in most cases
True, unless you live in St Louis. Most downloaders are after singles, not CDs.
Yes, your single will have the "radio edit" which is pretty much the same in most cases as buying the CD at WalMart ("You're crazy but I like the way you.... me"). You can fade the song early when the DJ starts talking over it or they fade it into th enext song. We geezers were recording tapes from the radio for a long time before anybody downloaded anything. I've turned some of the downloaded tapes into MP3. The other night guests were freaked out by a Rush song that got garbled in the middle of it at a spot where the radio's signal had faded; I had sampled the cassette that was recorded from the radio, and the radio signal got lost for a few seconds during recording. Except for that couple of seconds it was indistinguishable from a ripped or downloaded MP3.
you're going to do over $20 worth of work to get a crappy recording of part of an album
Only if you make $300 an hour. If you sampe an album from KSHE it will take all of five minutes of your time to turn it into a CD with proper skip points. It won't be CD quality, as FM broadcasts aren't CD quality.
Again, I agree it doesn't compete with CD sales, but it does compete with single download sales. Personally I don't see the point in renting lossily compressed DRM crippled WMA or AAC files.
There should be a price for stupid, rude, reckless behavior.
There is. Welcome to the internet!
The maximum punishment seems a tad harsh
Would you feel that way if the pilot got disoriented and crashed it on your mom's house?
You wouldn't need to prove intent, any more than you must prove that you intended to drive drunk. Like driving drunk, it's a felony to shine a laser at an aircraft whether you intended to or not. It's also far more stupid and dangerous than driving drunk.
No, the debris from the falling police helicopter might fall on your farm and harm your crop. Wait until they land and then shoot them with a ground to ground missle.
Oh oh, I think we're both on a "no fly" list now. I'm glad, I hate flies.
In Illinois, if you get caught driving drunk you will spend at least the night in jail and afterwards be jailed and/or fined in addition. How many people can a drunk driver kill? How much property damage can a drunk driver cause?
.08 BAC, and should have a lot harsher penalties.
If your laser pointer disorients a pilot and he crashes his police helicopter or worse, a passenger liner into a neighborhood how many people would it kill? How much property damage could it cause?
Seems to me that shining lasers at aircraft is a lot more dangerous than driving with a
-mcgrew
The green ones are more powerful, but it doesn't natter. You could disorient a pilot with a simple presentation pointer causeing him to crash the aircraft, perhaps right on top of you.
In soviet russia, laser points at YOU?
I wasn't flying a helicopter, though. My retina had torn, and the surgeon welded it back together.
I fail to see why this story made slashdot. I read a newspaper article last year IIRC about a fellow getting jailed for shining a laser at a commercial air liner, which would be far more dangerous than shining it at a police helicopter. Well, to anybody but the guy with the laser anyway.
The danger, of course, is that the pilot will be blinded or disoriented and could crash the vehicle. After the surgery on my retina I couldn't see out of that eye for several hours. A passenger liner crash would kill more passengers than a helicopter with a couple of cops in it, and as it's bigger and has lots more fuel could kill more people on the ground.
If you're going to shine lasers at cops, do it on the ground. It will likely be the last thing you ever do, as they'll just figure you've got a laser sighted gun shoot you dead.
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Dude, you saw my submission from Wednesday in the Firehose; it's still pending. It's not a dupe unless that one gets accepted, and even then this won't be a dupe, mine will. And it's not a hoax; try RTFA (same FA linked as my submission)
Silly anonymous cowards...
"In space, no-one can hear you scream." Even if you're a star in its last agonizing moments of life.
The only movie to ever do justice to the silent reality of outer space was 2001: A Space Oddesy and its sequel, 2010: The Search For More Money
You're saying that oral sex causes explosions in intergalactic space? How does that work exactly?
...we'll be forced to listen to more adverts, which in turn will prompt me to discontinue radio as an entertainment medium.
Already did it for me. My car's radio has 10 presets and as soon as I hear an announcer I punch buttons until I hear music, and keep punching if crap music comes on. If I go through all ten there's another button that starts up the CD changer.
At home my radio is locked to WQNA, a "250 watt non-commercial community volunteer/student station" that has no advertising at all an plays everything from old blues (a freind has a blues show on Sunday afternoon) to jazz to punk rock to heavy metal to worldmusic to... well actually there's not a genre I haven't heard on that station. I once heard a Tennessee Ernie Ford song followed by a Dead Kennedys song followed by a Johnny Cash song. But I'm starting to get offtopic so I'll stop (the web page is BAD and I don't mean that in the good sense)
At any rate, the point I'm getting away from is I already don't listen to commercials on the radio.
The bottom line is, radio play doesn't compete with a CD purchase or a download.
That's because not everyone has read this. A ten dollar radio and a five dollar patch cord will get you all the top 40 MP3s your little heart desires.
Of course, it isn't a perfect analogy, because unlike flowers, radio stations aren't producing what they're giving away.
Actually it is - radio gives the artist exposure, and unlike the other goods that are advertised on the radio, music's manufacturers get it for free. In this case, the advsrtising is the pollen and the label is the bee.
-mcgrew
if they let us download the music for free, and take their income from somewhere else.
I download my RIAA music from the radio for free. I buy indie music after downloading it from the internet if I like it.
-mcgrew
With Republicans in the hands of big business and Democrats in the hands of Hollywood
The Bono Act (AKA "Mickey Mouse Perpetual Copyright Extension Act") passed on a 100% vote (both parties voted "yes", and "the people's guy" Obama voting to "reform" bankrupcy laws by making them useless to anyone but the bankers, it should be clear to all that the Republicans and the Democrats are two wings of the same corporate party.
"Hollywood" IS big business.
That top 40 stuff will loose air time
Well air time needs to be loosed. I mean, let it run around the yard at least. Poor air time, I'm calling the APCAT (Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Air Time). And for crying out loud feed the poor thing!
I think this will ad variety
That's a good thing, advertising needs more variety.
-mcgrew =P
doesn't the RIAA want people to listen to these songs on the radio so they go out and buy the cd?
Are you kidding? Who would buy that crap after actually hearing it?
I happen to mostly listen to modern/hard rock.
Then PLEASE list a few good hard rock bands besides Buckcherry that debued in this century. I'm not talking about whiners like Hinder, either. Somebody needs to give today's RIAA "rock" stars some Zoloft.
In the words of one of the guys in the indie ska band the Pietasters (live album), "Zoloft - because life's too fucking good!"
Quite a few of the bands that I like (Nickelback)
Nickleback? Never mind. They're no better than Justin Timberlake. People say RIAA music sucks because we hear it on the radio.
-mcgrew
compensate them directly without the MA****
That's "Music And Film Industry Ass. of America" (MAFIAA)
-mcgrew
OK now I feel guilty railing against the RIAA's war against internet radio and P2P, always pointing out that they're like radio only the RIAA can't control them, and that all you have to do to get all the free top 40 MP3s you want is plug your headphone jack into the radio and sample.
But then again perhaps this will herald the advent of "indie music" (i.e., anything not produced by an RIAA label) on the radio.
Record labels or Clear Channel and their ilk, who to root against? A pox on both their houses.
-mcgrew
might this game actually see the light of day after so much talk?
Well if it does then we won't have to put a stake through this undead thing's heart, will we? The question in my mind, though, is "are they still planning on using the Quake II engine?"