But I refer to the meaning of the word "smart". If you do something that causes pain, you are less likely to repeat that action. In other words, pain makes you smart.
this makes me cooperate with law enforcement. I can't afford to have some cop plant evidence of a felony.
When I was a teenager I worked at a drive-in theater (different town) where the owner had the cops paid off. I could do no wrong; I actually got chewed out by a police sergent for paying a speeding ticket from another town instead of having him take care of it! The cops would confiscate booze from underaged drinkers, then after work drink it with us and treat us to dinner.
So I do NOT under any circumstances trust any law enforcement personnel at all, ever, period. As long as there are victimless crimes, anyone can go to prison at any time.
See my sig; I have "augmented reality" via a CrystaLens implant. I am a cyborg. You will be assimilated. resistance is futile. We already have the Vice President of the US in our clutches!
BTW, your link is wrong; it leads back to this article. I believe this is the link you are looking for. However, a better link is here (a dictionary lookup of the word "cyborg").
1. Not future; in fact may have already jumped the shark (as has the phrase "jumped the shark")
2. "Fabric computing"? WTF is "Fabric computing"? Wikipedia leaves me ignorant, as does TFA. When I saw the phrase I thought of the first computer I ever saw in 1964. It was attached to a loom and wove a cloth bookmark out of thread with a design you entered with a very primitive light pen. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life, but I doubt it's what these stupid yuppies are referring to.
4. Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms? WTF??? Yeah, I've seen that yupiespeak before. It's a diagram that shows the internet as a cloud and the phrase's user as a technology-clueless idiot.
5. Web mashups? 1999 called and wants its newspeak du jour back.
6. User Interface? Didn't ENIAC have an interface? Even if it was just plugs and wires?
7. Ubiquitous computing? Hey everybody, Gartner discovered the internet!
8. Contextual computing? You mean like not putting text data in a numeric field?
9. Augmented reality? I already have it, click my sig for details. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
10. Semantics? 1998 called, it wants its dotcom bubblegum back.
Whoever's paying these idiots has WAY too much money and WAY too little sense. It's all babbling designed not for dissimination of information but instead obfuscation of the fact that the speaker doesn't have a fucking clue but wants you to think he's "real smart".
Nothing to see here. Not even if you have three eyes.
Ignoring the comments where you are obviously grasping at straws in the secure knowledge that you feel like a fool saying them (like comparing counterfeiting money with copyright infringement... wow)
So that means you eat everything you buy
Yes; all the food anyway. What I don't eat is given away.
Are you also a vegetarian, since meat based diets are far more inefficient and lead to higher grain prices.
That's stupid. Stop making me think you're an idiot.
the only market change is for profit music will be significantly reduced, so overall the amount of music will decrease.
False statement.
What music gets downloaded?
All of it. RIAA, indie, free, and DRMed, it's all available.
People will go to bars to drink
No they don't. People go to bars to socialize; to meet people; to chase women; to listen to music; for a lot of other reasons. You can drink at home for a WHOLE lot cheaper than at a bar. Nobody goes to a bar to drink. You might try visiting one sometime when you're old enough.
They produce stuff that isn't listenable, yet it's the stuff that gets downloaded
From what I've read, most P2P downloaders are downloading because the last CD they bought had one song they liked and they don't want their hard-earned money to be stolen again by the RIAA frauds. Most of what's downloaded gets erased PDQ, and what little good stuff that's found results in a sale.
I won't say it's all dreck, just >99% of it. Kind of like the indies, who aren't suing their customers but instead posting their music on MySpace. There is only a lot more good indie music because there is a lot more indie music.
Food is not something to build an economy on, it's a means to support your society
The US economy was based on farming until the middle of the 20th century. Your ignorance is astounding.
Modern technology is based on IP
Wow, that's past ignorant and into self-delusion. Please take your Haldol.
My entire point was that "adjusted for inflation" is entirely meaningless, especially when you are measuring the price of something that is iteself the primary cause of said inflation. Don't measure gas prices against inflation, measure it against the minimum wage an employer can legally pay. You'll find that even three dollars a gallon is the highest a minimum wage worker has ever paid for gasoline, let alone the $4.03 I paid this morning.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" - Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.
True, This! -- Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! -- itself a nothing! -- But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! -- Take away the sword -- States can be saved without it!
IF they're worried about Muslim terrorists, make everyone getting onboard the train have to eat a BLT.
That works for Jewish terrorists, too. Also for my terrorist daughter who is allergic to bacon. Yeah, she's downright MEAN!
And if they're worried about Christian terrorists, tell them they have to suck off a gay dude
EWWW! Being a Christian wouldn't keep me from sucking off a dude, but being heterosexual would. My bible doesn't say "thou shalt not suck cocks". There are 12 commandments for the Christian: Moses' ten and Jesus' two, although all ten are contained in the two.
Anyone who has read the first four books of the New Testament knows that Pat Robertson is s wolf in sheeps' clothing and has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. Eat your heart out, you ineffectual piker!
I'm just sick of people telling me they believe all sorts of crazy shit based on "faith"
Then stop baiting them, troll.
My faith is based on personal experience. If you don't believe in penguins I can't blame you; they are rather improbable creatures. A bird that can't fly, but instead swims underwater and eats fish? And lives at the South Pole? Yeah they have pictures but there's photoshop. And yeah, there are all sorts of documents but those were meant to be works of fiction. People claiming to have actually seen penguins are either schitzophrenic, on drugs, or liars.
But I have experienced penguins, there's one at my local zoo. I'm sure you have some exotic explanation for why I imagine I saw a penguin at the zoo.
...and yet they think they can tell us what sort of science is permissible to be taught in public schools.
Not me. Evolution does NOT go against anything the Bible says. Even teh Catholic Pope will agree that evolution is real (IANAC).
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Much wisdom is contained in the book you so despise. However, I can understand your fear of it.
No, he's not a vampire, he's a Cyborg. For that matter so am I. Neither garlic nor stakes will suffice. In fact, a steak through the heart is the likely cause of Cheney's becoming a cyborg in the first place!
You will be assimilated. Resistance is not only futile, when the time comes you will beg to join us.
Disclaimer: By "us" I mean cyborg, not Republican. I didn't vote for that particular cyborg and never would; I consider him and Bush to be traitors to my country. See what happens when you elect an alcoholic to the Presidency and Vice Presidency?
-mcgrew PS- did I tell you that you would be assimilated? In fact you may already be a winner!
do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to idiocy, or desperation
I believe Hanlon's razor is dull and rusty and Hanlon was probably using his razor to shave his own malice. Not that I ever heard off Hanlon before looking the quote up.
I subscribe to the credo "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice". Call it mcgrew's razor if you wish, it cuts the opposite way as Hanlon's. Malice itself is usually stupid, and anger is almost always counterproductive in our world.
But it matters little whether the person you are making excuses for is stupid or evil, the result is the same, and the cure is often the same as well. Why do you think they say "wow, that smarts" when they are in pain?
The statement "my dad's generation smoked cigarettes, my generation smoked pot and the younger generation smokes crack" was meant to be a humorous jab. I was a butthead for 30 years. Stopping was the hardest thing I ever did (I chronicled my addiction and subsequent soppage a few years ago, google "how to quit smoking cigarettes" and it's still on the first page of results; it was a K5FP article) .
As to "more addictive than heroin", when I was in Thailand in the USAF in 1974 they had PURE heroin, over 99% pure (compared to the 2-5% in the US today). Every GI I met there abused something; we white first termers (mostly) smoked ourselves unconscious with that killer Thai stick (pot), lifers (mostly) stayed drunk in the NCO club when off duty, and the black first termers (mostly) smoked "rails". I say "mostly" because it wasn't universal; lots of black guys smoked pot, for instance.
To make a "rail" you took a Kool cigarette and loosened the tobacco, shaking much of it out. You then removed the filter, tore it in half lengthwise and reinserted it. You then dipped the tobacco end of the Kool into your 100% pure heroin and smoked it.
Some of these guys never smoked anything at all before going to Thailand. I met a few after returning to the states, and not a single one was still on heroin. However, every single one still smoked Kools!
A hooker I know is addicted to both crack and alcohol, and she's been through rehab a few times and tells me the alcohol addiction is worse than the crack addiction.
IMO no drug (except perhaps antibiotics) should be illegal.
I use the PrtScr key but not the SysReq key. On the older keyboards, you had to hold shift to print the screen, like you have to hold shift to print the & character. But again, PrtScr sent the screen directly to the printer instead of copying it for pasting in a graphics program like it does now.
The pause/break key was very useful back in the days of DOS batch files and still is with 'nix scripts.
One man's "feature" is another an's design flaw. AFAIK you can only "turn off that feature" on OSS programs/OSes, and even then you have to modify and recompile.
There's a non-commercial station here in Springfield a friend, Mike King, DJs on Sunday afternoons (12:00-2:00) for with his and Dan's Real Deal Hi Fi Blues (Mike is a fellow nerd, btw). The station is WQNA and they play literally ANYTHING, depending on who's jockying disks. I once heard Tennessee Ernie Ford followed by the Dead Kennedys followed by Johnny Cash on that station!
There's ska, raggae, country, really old country, rock, really old rock, blues, rap, crap, pap, jazz, scat, clasical, folk, bluegrass, metal, hardcore, punk... they even have a show that features belly dancing music.
Googling for their web site I was surprised to find that wikipedia has an entry on them, albeit an incredibly small one. Like almost all radio stations these days they have an internet stream.
It's my favorite station, and despite its puny 200 watt output power was voted Springfield's best music station in last year's Illinois Times poll. If you have eclectic tastes in music you should check it out.
The mp3s (or more often DRM infested files with other extensions) are made from the same remastered masters as the CDs, so your MP3 will still be inferior to the CD.
And yes, the album version of Led Zepplin's Presence has more presence thatn the CD version, due to its superior dynamics and frequency response.
And how can a CD have less dynamics than an LP when CDs have a superior dynamic range? Bad remastering. I wish the labels would simply sample the old analog masters on the stuff that was originally recorded analog.
If you mix analog with digital (digital masters for LPs, or CDs of originally analog material) you get the worst of both worlds, the disadvantages of both mediums and the advantages of neither.
Vam Halen's first album was one of the few I could crank to 9 and be fooled into thinking the band was in the living room. I have yet to hear such a CD.
No, bitching is only involved in the first four stages of death.
First stage: The old, pre-reborn illegal Napster Second stage: Lawsuits against Napster and other P2P networks Third stage: Lawsuits against customers Fourth stage: Chapter 13 Fifth stage: Chapter 7
The only possible law that could be passed to protect their antiquated business model would be a law that outlawed independant artists. The indies are basically recording artists who have told the RIAA labels to fuck off.
People downloading RIAA music isn't going to hurt the RIAA. People downloading indie music certainly will. The labels are no longer relevant to either the artist or the listener. The dinasaur can only thrash around in the tar pit for so long.
There is no excuse for selling a CD for twenty dollars, when you can get a better quality CD from an indie band for five or ten. The RIAA labels are basing their pricing structure on the old, costly media that required incredibly expensive studios and duplication. Modern studios are quite inexpensive to build and rent, and duplication is a pittance. Every meduim sized or larger city has hundreds of talented poets, songwriters, and musicians. The RIAA's only hope is that you not realise that the dreck you hear on the radio is vastly inferior to what is being produced locally.
Don't throw tha baby out with the bathwater. Go see local musicians, and buy indie CDs. When sales of indie CDs surpass RIAA CDs then you know the days of these egregious lawsuits are numbered.
You can't buy music from Rhapsody, you can only rent it. Rhapsody is more like a jukebox than buying a CD.
I get unlimited music for free, and legal. I have this device called a "radio", you might have heard of it? Its only drawback is that all its music is RIAA music.
Hooker: "You just kicked the shit out of an innocent man." Little Bill: "Yeah? Innocent of what?"
I sincerely hope you're a foreigner and not a US citizen. If you're a foreigner you're ignorant, if you're American you're a troll. Americans are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. It's one of the founding principles of our nation.
I don't see the issue in that a few innocent people may get caught, I see the issue in that we are all criminals;D
The smiley face doesn't undo the troll. IMBM but I believe it was Franklin who said "it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to incarcerate a single innocent man.
People by their very nature believe other people are like them. Honest people expect honesty, thieves expect thievery. We can therefore see what kind of people run the RIAA labels, as well as see what kind of person you are.
From the RIAA? More likely he's its President. There's an UnNews interview with Mitch Brainwol discussing the "analog hole" (or "a-hole" as he calls it in the interview)
Personally I'd prefer that software (and OS) authors not rely so heavily on the mouse for every little thing. I should be able to use a computer without a mouse at all. My friend Mike complains about an ailment I share - "mouse elbow", which comes from a combination of being middle aged and constantly moving from keyboard to mouse.
For example, in about any app in any OS If I hit Ctrl-F it opens the File menu, but if I meant to hit Shift-F instead, I have to use the mouse to get the cursor back where it was. The logical way to program it would be if I hit Esc after Alt-F the cursor would return to its previous spot.
In a word processor this is especially egregious. The only required use for a mouse in a word processing document should be to move the cursor to a different spot in your text; faster than arrow keys.
We nerds should do better when we program. We do, after all, pride ourselves on logic.
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But I refer to the meaning of the word "smart". If you do something that causes pain, you are less likely to repeat that action. In other words, pain makes you smart.
this makes me cooperate with law enforcement. I can't afford to have some cop plant evidence of a felony.
When I was a teenager I worked at a drive-in theater (different town) where the owner had the cops paid off. I could do no wrong; I actually got chewed out by a police sergent for paying a speeding ticket from another town instead of having him take care of it! The cops would confiscate booze from underaged drinkers, then after work drink it with us and treat us to dinner.
So I do NOT under any circumstances trust any law enforcement personnel at all, ever, period. As long as there are victimless crimes, anyone can go to prison at any time.
I'm no hero.
See my sig; I have "augmented reality" via a CrystaLens implant. I am a cyborg. You will be assimilated. resistance is futile. We already have the Vice President of the US in our clutches!
BTW, your link is wrong; it leads back to this article. I believe this is the link you are looking for. However, a better link is here (a dictionary lookup of the word "cyborg").
1. Not future; in fact may have already jumped the shark (as has the phrase "jumped the shark")
2. "Fabric computing"? WTF is "Fabric computing"? Wikipedia leaves me ignorant, as does TFA. When I saw the phrase I thought of the first computer I ever saw in 1964. It was attached to a loom and wove a cloth bookmark out of thread with a design you entered with a very primitive light pen. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life, but I doubt it's what these stupid yuppies are referring to.
4. Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms? WTF??? Yeah, I've seen that yupiespeak before. It's a diagram that shows the internet as a cloud and the phrase's user as a technology-clueless idiot.
5. Web mashups? 1999 called and wants its newspeak du jour back.
6. User Interface? Didn't ENIAC have an interface? Even if it was just plugs and wires?
7. Ubiquitous computing? Hey everybody, Gartner discovered the internet!
8. Contextual computing? You mean like not putting text data in a numeric field?
9. Augmented reality? I already have it, click my sig for details. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
10. Semantics? 1998 called, it wants its dotcom bubblegum back.
Whoever's paying these idiots has WAY too much money and WAY too little sense. It's all babbling designed not for dissimination of information but instead obfuscation of the fact that the speaker doesn't have a fucking clue but wants you to think he's "real smart".
Nothing to see here. Not even if you have three eyes.
Ignoring the comments where you are obviously grasping at straws in the secure knowledge that you feel like a fool saying them (like comparing counterfeiting money with copyright infringement... wow)
So that means you eat everything you buy
Yes; all the food anyway. What I don't eat is given away.
Are you also a vegetarian, since meat based diets are far more inefficient and lead to higher grain prices.
That's stupid. Stop making me think you're an idiot.
the only market change is for profit music will be significantly reduced, so overall the amount of music will decrease.
False statement.
What music gets downloaded?
All of it. RIAA, indie, free, and DRMed, it's all available.
People will go to bars to drink
No they don't. People go to bars to socialize; to meet people; to chase women; to listen to music; for a lot of other reasons. You can drink at home for a WHOLE lot cheaper than at a bar. Nobody goes to a bar to drink. You might try visiting one sometime when you're old enough.
They produce stuff that isn't listenable, yet it's the stuff that gets downloaded
From what I've read, most P2P downloaders are downloading because the last CD they bought had one song they liked and they don't want their hard-earned money to be stolen again by the RIAA frauds. Most of what's downloaded gets erased PDQ, and what little good stuff that's found results in a sale.
I won't say it's all dreck, just >99% of it. Kind of like the indies, who aren't suing their customers but instead posting their music on MySpace. There is only a lot more good indie music because there is a lot more indie music.
Food is not something to build an economy on, it's a means to support your society
The US economy was based on farming until the middle of the 20th century. Your ignorance is astounding.
Modern technology is based on IP
Wow, that's past ignorant and into self-delusion. Please take your Haldol.
Damn, and I thought you were going to offer to mow it for me!
My entire point was that "adjusted for inflation" is entirely meaningless, especially when you are measuring the price of something that is iteself the primary cause of said inflation. Don't measure gas prices against inflation, measure it against the minimum wage an employer can legally pay. You'll find that even three dollars a gallon is the highest a minimum wage worker has ever paid for gasoline, let alone the $4.03 I paid this morning.
So, what happens when trade secrets leak
I'm not Indian, but in my country (USA) we developed patents for the express purpose of avoiding "trade secrets".
Trade Secrets are unamerican. No true American Conservative would defend their existance.
IF they're worried about Muslim terrorists, make everyone getting onboard the train have to eat a BLT.
That works for Jewish terrorists, too. Also for my terrorist daughter who is allergic to bacon. Yeah, she's downright MEAN!
And if they're worried about Christian terrorists, tell them they have to suck off a gay dude
EWWW! Being a Christian wouldn't keep me from sucking off a dude, but being heterosexual would. My bible doesn't say "thou shalt not suck cocks". There are 12 commandments for the Christian: Moses' ten and Jesus' two, although all ten are contained in the two.
Anyone who has read the first four books of the New Testament knows that Pat Robertson is s wolf in sheeps' clothing and has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. Eat your heart out, you ineffectual piker!
I'm just sick of people telling me they believe all sorts of crazy shit based on "faith"
Then stop baiting them, troll.
My faith is based on personal experience. If you don't believe in penguins I can't blame you; they are rather improbable creatures. A bird that can't fly, but instead swims underwater and eats fish? And lives at the South Pole? Yeah they have pictures but there's photoshop. And yeah, there are all sorts of documents but those were meant to be works of fiction. People claiming to have actually seen penguins are either schitzophrenic, on drugs, or liars.
But I have experienced penguins, there's one at my local zoo. I'm sure you have some exotic explanation for why I imagine I saw a penguin at the zoo.
...and yet they think they can tell us what sort of science is permissible to be taught in public schools.
Much wisdom is contained in the book you so despise. However, I can understand your fear of it.Not me. Evolution does NOT go against anything the Bible says. Even teh Catholic Pope will agree that evolution is real (IANAC).
No, he's not a vampire, he's a Cyborg. For that matter so am I. Neither garlic nor stakes will suffice. In fact, a steak through the heart is the likely cause of Cheney's becoming a cyborg in the first place!
You will be assimilated. Resistance is not only futile, when the time comes you will beg to join us.
Disclaimer: By "us" I mean cyborg, not Republican. I didn't vote for that particular cyborg and never would; I consider him and Bush to be traitors to my country. See what happens when you elect an alcoholic to the Presidency and Vice Presidency?
-mcgrew
PS- did I tell you that you would be assimilated? In fact you may already be a winner!
do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to idiocy, or desperation
I believe Hanlon's razor is dull and rusty and Hanlon was probably using his razor to shave his own malice. Not that I ever heard off Hanlon before looking the quote up.
I subscribe to the credo "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice". Call it mcgrew's razor if you wish, it cuts the opposite way as Hanlon's. Malice itself is usually stupid, and anger is almost always counterproductive in our world.
But it matters little whether the person you are making excuses for is stupid or evil, the result is the same, and the cure is often the same as well. Why do you think they say "wow, that smarts" when they are in pain?
The statement "my dad's generation smoked cigarettes, my generation smoked pot and the younger generation smokes crack" was meant to be a humorous jab. I was a butthead for 30 years. Stopping was the hardest thing I ever did (I chronicled my addiction and subsequent soppage a few years ago, google "how to quit smoking cigarettes" and it's still on the first page of results; it was a K5FP article) .
As to "more addictive than heroin", when I was in Thailand in the USAF in 1974 they had PURE heroin, over 99% pure (compared to the 2-5% in the US today). Every GI I met there abused something; we white first termers (mostly) smoked ourselves unconscious with that killer Thai stick (pot), lifers (mostly) stayed drunk in the NCO club when off duty, and the black first termers (mostly) smoked "rails". I say "mostly" because it wasn't universal; lots of black guys smoked pot, for instance.
To make a "rail" you took a Kool cigarette and loosened the tobacco, shaking much of it out. You then removed the filter, tore it in half lengthwise and reinserted it. You then dipped the tobacco end of the Kool into your 100% pure heroin and smoked it.
Some of these guys never smoked anything at all before going to Thailand. I met a few after returning to the states, and not a single one was still on heroin. However, every single one still smoked Kools!
A hooker I know is addicted to both crack and alcohol, and she's been through rehab a few times and tells me the alcohol addiction is worse than the crack addiction.
IMO no drug (except perhaps antibiotics) should be illegal.
I use the PrtScr key but not the SysReq key. On the older keyboards, you had to hold shift to print the screen, like you have to hold shift to print the & character. But again, PrtScr sent the screen directly to the printer instead of copying it for pasting in a graphics program like it does now.
The pause/break key was very useful back in the days of DOS batch files and still is with 'nix scripts.
I don't think I've ever hit the scroll lock key.
Is there a way to turn off that feature?
One man's "feature" is another an's design flaw. AFAIK you can only "turn off that feature" on OSS programs/OSes, and even then you have to modify and recompile.
Remember: A kitten dies every time a story is tagged "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense."
Did someone say kittens? Mmmmmm kittens!
I like the tiny orange ones, they'll fuck you up real good
There's a non-commercial station here in Springfield a friend, Mike King, DJs on Sunday afternoons (12:00-2:00) for with his and Dan's Real Deal Hi Fi Blues (Mike is a fellow nerd, btw). The station is WQNA and they play literally ANYTHING, depending on who's jockying disks. I once heard Tennessee Ernie Ford followed by the Dead Kennedys followed by Johnny Cash on that station!
There's ska, raggae, country, really old country, rock, really old rock, blues, rap, crap, pap, jazz, scat, clasical, folk, bluegrass, metal, hardcore, punk... they even have a show that features belly dancing music.
Googling for their web site I was surprised to find that wikipedia has an entry on them, albeit an incredibly small one. Like almost all radio stations these days they have an internet stream.
It's my favorite station, and despite its puny 200 watt output power was voted Springfield's best music station in last year's Illinois Times poll. If you have eclectic tastes in music you should check it out.
The mp3s (or more often DRM infested files with other extensions) are made from the same remastered masters as the CDs, so your MP3 will still be inferior to the CD.
And yes, the album version of Led Zepplin's Presence has more presence thatn the CD version, due to its superior dynamics and frequency response.
And how can a CD have less dynamics than an LP when CDs have a superior dynamic range? Bad remastering. I wish the labels would simply sample the old analog masters on the stuff that was originally recorded analog.
If you mix analog with digital (digital masters for LPs, or CDs of originally analog material) you get the worst of both worlds, the disadvantages of both mediums and the advantages of neither.
Vam Halen's first album was one of the few I could crank to 9 and be fooled into thinking the band was in the living room. I have yet to hear such a CD.
Acceptance can be a bitch sometimes
No, bitching is only involved in the first four stages of death.
First stage: The old, pre-reborn illegal Napster
Second stage: Lawsuits against Napster and other P2P networks
Third stage: Lawsuits against customers
Fourth stage: Chapter 13
Fifth stage: Chapter 7
The only possible law that could be passed to protect their antiquated business model would be a law that outlawed independant artists. The indies are basically recording artists who have told the RIAA labels to fuck off.
People downloading RIAA music isn't going to hurt the RIAA. People downloading indie music certainly will. The labels are no longer relevant to either the artist or the listener. The dinasaur can only thrash around in the tar pit for so long.
There is no excuse for selling a CD for twenty dollars, when you can get a better quality CD from an indie band for five or ten. The RIAA labels are basing their pricing structure on the old, costly media that required incredibly expensive studios and duplication. Modern studios are quite inexpensive to build and rent, and duplication is a pittance. Every meduim sized or larger city has hundreds of talented poets, songwriters, and musicians. The RIAA's only hope is that you not realise that the dreck you hear on the radio is vastly inferior to what is being produced locally.
Don't throw tha baby out with the bathwater. Go see local musicians, and buy indie CDs. When sales of indie CDs surpass RIAA CDs then you know the days of these egregious lawsuits are numbered.
You can't buy music from Rhapsody, you can only rent it. Rhapsody is more like a jukebox than buying a CD.
I get unlimited music for free, and legal. I have this device called a "radio", you might have heard of it? Its only drawback is that all its music is RIAA music.
And how many people are actually innocent?
;D
From Unforgiven
Hooker: "You just kicked the shit out of an innocent man."
Little Bill: "Yeah? Innocent of what?"
I sincerely hope you're a foreigner and not a US citizen. If you're a foreigner you're ignorant, if you're American you're a troll. Americans are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. It's one of the founding principles of our nation.
I don't see the issue in that a few innocent people may get caught, I see the issue in that we are all criminals
The smiley face doesn't undo the troll. IMBM but I believe it was Franklin who said "it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to incarcerate a single innocent man.
People by their very nature believe other people are like them. Honest people expect honesty, thieves expect thievery. We can therefore see what kind of people run the RIAA labels, as well as see what kind of person you are.
From the RIAA? More likely he's its President. There's an UnNews interview with Mitch Brainwol discussing the "analog hole" (or "a-hole" as he calls it in the interview)
Personally I'd prefer that software (and OS) authors not rely so heavily on the mouse for every little thing. I should be able to use a computer without a mouse at all. My friend Mike complains about an ailment I share - "mouse elbow", which comes from a combination of being middle aged and constantly moving from keyboard to mouse.
For example, in about any app in any OS If I hit Ctrl-F it opens the File menu, but if I meant to hit Shift-F instead, I have to use the mouse to get the cursor back where it was. The logical way to program it would be if I hit Esc after Alt-F the cursor would return to its previous spot.
In a word processor this is especially egregious. The only required use for a mouse in a word processing document should be to move the cursor to a different spot in your text; faster than arrow keys.
We nerds should do better when we program. We do, after all, pride ourselves on logic.