Have music compact disks had there day?

The monkey house uses a lot of linux, compact disk music is an awful format to start with and the tracks being large blocks to pad out that 700mb of capacity that a cd has to read. If you have ever ogg converted a cd and those songs get very small and since my hearing is not that of a hifi loony (those people who pay $250 for gold cables and crap stuff) it does not bother me.

I have some cd’s and the playback seems to be getting worse, i hear pauses while the disk seeks so how long before the cd music dies?. Im not suggesting the linux is at fault but the games the riaa and other loons seems to have made there media not liked,

This is not too much a problem, but the guarantees that a cheap piece of plastic sold at extortionate profit will be future proof seem to be gone. So long to the cd.

That is not good for anybody, but a lesson has been learn’t, as consumer, artists both have been screwed by the copyright lobby and there greed for the next format with even more restrictions.

amazon.com’s ‘easter hating gays’ moment a one off, or future feature?

Amazon.com is a big shop on the internet, which for whatever faults it now has pushed bookseller from a rather stuffy  / lazy profession hence the quote from them before amazon that

“PEOPLE DON’T READ BOOKS”

into a dynamic business worldwide where it appears people do.However with big comes responsibility, the word monopoly might come into a discussion, and the one click patent trolling that amazon still engage in to today mean this beast needs monitoring.

you cant buy jack at amazon easily.

Cave dwellers will not know that amazon decided that any book with a hint of a gay theme – including Captain Jack from Torchwood (my blog) lost its rating on the the amazon .com site, however if your book was soemthing like how to train fighting dogs your safe.  So amazon went redneck for a bit.

so what’s the problem ? i hear some of you think.

Well – if you start delisting ‘alternative’ books how long before Harry Potter goes, or Stephanie Meyers book?s.  The world does not need extra censorship, in fact censorship is bad for amazon – for this book (my blog) i could not enrich the shareholders of amazon.com.

Granted that the books i read might not be best sellers, and im not likely to read the books that amazon it appears would prefer not to sell but if the only two books allowed to be printed where the bible and how to train fighting dogs then amazon.com would not have a business.

phew amazon think asterisk the gay gaul isnt gay.

If you read the blame game now that this was a cock up by  one tolerant french amazon employee caused the issue that does not ring true to me, and why it that english titles like Jack Barrowmans book got censored rather than say asterisk  (seen right) then explain that one away.

In short it does not add up.  However if you read about the tale of the book amazon would not sell me then you will know that ‘no’ isnt the final word yet.

Exploring the world of bookselling outside of amazon means there are much nicer websites thena amazon,  be different explore.  Why you should explore is that say a book deals with vampires or witchcraft and some loon complains and amazon repeat this with vampires then both as a shareholder it will help you investing and as a consumer supply you with the things you might need.

If those examples are bad try this if ‘god fearing folk’ have issues with most things, women leaders, eating pigs, sex etc  then pick a book up suppose a charles dickens book has strong female character, or emily brontes books might cause womens liberation then the danger is that these retards can both damage a business and have the ability to censor everyone.

The e-book – there kindle is also a means of future censorship, suppose Jane Eyre is banned as a e-book on the kindle, then the drm does not allow any non amazom.com content loaded.  You have censorship.

I’m off to purchase a copy how best to train pit bull fighting dog after all im sure they can be trained to bite and kill religous people.

Microsoft/Cisco and ‘polution’

Walmart customers – did you buy drm’d music ? well do buy it again, because it wont work again.

So yes its a drm post, but why should Cisco and evil chair throwing Microsoft get a mention ? well easy for things you get for free* like film trailers Microsoft and Cisco want to charge you Microsoft users for them.

Why ? well Seinfeild and co dont come cheap and there concept of pollution contains some outrageous terms.

Here’s the problem – the internet is not tv, nor is it radio, yes those things can be be sent via it but not all of us use the internet to watch crap tv and corporate sounds. if pollution means that you have pay to watch youtube what would be your response ?

Beware for when you next upgrade windows – unless you pay for video and sound every time Microsoft (Steve Balmer,Bill Gates, and Seinfeld) consider you evil.

As to cisco I am not surprised to see them here. Cisco are evil and just a brand name i suggest that there’s more to life than cisco routers and stuff, so don’t buy cisco after all when the counterfeiters can steal designs, boxes [all made in china] and ship them to cisco resellers who don’t know there counterfeited then perhaps they should do something else first

Pollution is an ambiguous term, i could argue that any Microsoft os causes more more pollution problems than they solve. To remove problem – just remove Microsoft workstations for the internet – problem solved.

The internet is not tv, or is it a platform to promote only one awful corporate singer who forget to wear panties while getting out of car [adjust your google settings], it is a means communication that both tv and radio fail to understand and wish to make there own.  Beware of the nazis, shaved or otherwise.

* paid for via an internet connection.

Told you so

brr brr brr

In this (my blog) becomes ‘fact‘ conclusion – LInux is better. computer magazines/it media are still chicken about saying so but then we all know advertisers pay for ‘editorial’ in those things. This is the reason why Bananas refuses to buy / subscribe to it publications be they the monthly/weekly type.

Mind you having a chair thrown at you by Steve Balmer shows the media world is a bit lame*. Perhaps this explains why blogs are more independant.

Microsoft throw a huge amount of shit back at there partners in the article, its scary, one games company ‘partner’ died printer firms got accused of treason (blows the Microsoft tco argument), and so forth

Vista is awful, still requires hundreds of patches and sucks but its nice to know that the official view too, Lest us not forget that there was no mention of drm – see how that did not get a mention by the msm.

Those performance figures are damming.

The unbiased msm editor is missed in the world of it and games magazines. Perhaps that is why these articles make them the exception rather than the rule which denegrates them to being mere propaganda machines for the like of Microsoft. Linux magazines don’t have that problem but then they know there market.

Where the general it magazine becomes funny is when the ‘editor’ or i listen and i write down what you want me say’ goes rogue and pisses of there publisher (no microsoft advertising) and talks down to there readership.

go Vista VISTA - um err sucks

* This happened last year when a journalist decided he knew better than both his paymaster and being an expert Microsoft ‘genius’ [but never employed by them] told them everything he had spent the last couple of years hyping vista in the cheerleader out fit was excrement. You gotta love that independence ? yes ?.

If you read those years- you just have be been called an retard.

Murder most foul

A certain newspaper journalist who i read has given his blog over to the various loons that comprise the old recording industry while hes away, its a really shit state of affairs but this not the point of debating his handling of that.

Readers of mine will know i dislike drm, britney spears, and anything commercial that is riaa/sony/bpi/emi crap. When they speak of ‘innovation’ i’m reminded of this idiot (to the right) who sings out of copyright bits of popular operas and sold his soul to the those scum.

I am having a go at this talentless moron because realplayer got upgraded and then downgraded. this ‘played’ havoc with the script that needs alsa where you this piece of non ms crap to work needs

REALPLAYBIN=”/usr/bin/aoss $HELIX_LIBS/realplay.bin”

For any sound to come out, however one has to endure Mr Potts belting out the out of copyright nissan asbo before the realplay stream will start. I’m listening to German radio and the only music i’d like to buy i cannot because the record industry deems the music i listen to to be not worthy of distribution.

Its ironic as you have to be retard to buy out of copyright opera ‘hits’ on cd and the music i listen to is as far away from opera in style as you can get.

See while i want Mr Paul Potts dead ?

wga down – no vista, yes to linux

The zoo’s office put out call to the monkey house – a new hp laptop (under a year old) would not run Vista between the combined iq’s of HP and Microsoft they seemed to have deemed that the Vista license we didnt want to buy (but had too) was now illegal.

Thankfully we put a copy of Ubuntu on the laptop and i can report that works fine.  I see no problem in migrating the user to it if the problem continues.  If Mcrosofts products are forced on us (rape)and then dont work is that not just pure criminality by Steve Balmer.

I suppose its a criminal matter too, so i better go inform the police after all a theft has occurred.

This is the danger with Microsoft.  Why should the machine force the use of internet connection to phone home, then declare itself illegal and then not work.  Is that really the software we all want ?

Lets be clear here

• Microsoft disabled the computer
• HP sold a bad microsoft vista license

Clearly Linux is the path to go down.

Leviticus and the Zune tattoo guy

losing the faith

Isn’t it funny ? perhaps is sad ? but with Steven Smith (an american) whom was Tattooed all in the name of Microsoft’s mp3 player has now seen the error of his ways.

He now owns an Apple music player.

The problem with Steve is that by buying Zune he by default became a copyright thief, and supports those evil riaa members I discuss the issue here. So that’s count one on the charge sheet.

Theres a funny smell here, and another nail in his coffin is mad christian who decided that Mr Smith is bonkers.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28

That probably had something to with slavery rather than the way i construe things, but if your going to pimp for Microsoft is that not slavery ?

As an informed customer Steve (mr tattoo guy) warns us all about restrictions in copyright watch the video.

Bananas in the Falklands recognises that some americans hero worship Microsoft and there products, that’s fine until they label Steve a copyright thief by default. I have other issues with Microsoft but to call your customers of zune music thieves (all of them) then there be ethical issues there for everybody

If he owned an digital music player (not mp3 but a proprietary format) – then i think they just became very very unhip.

Humans.

Canada get pwned by the Americans (mpaa,riaa)

I love super hero movies don’t you.

coasters in vista, and tco (again)

So all i wanted to do was put a file on to the cdr disk – but windows vista would not let and than closed the session, result one coaster.

It was a webcam driver, so is Microsoft better than Linux for running out of the box ? no as i still had to make a driver, visit a website download a file, then run it as adminsitrator.

Sounds a bit like Linux there dont it but at least its been five years since i last made a coaster for the professors coffee mug.

Gnome baker (thats in x server not windows) is much better than Vistas ‘help’ anyday of the week. Personally i am going to blame some drm check in Vista rather than me.

Nationalistic crap

In this (bbc) we discover that despite been moved from the schedules ‘Gordon Brown Britishness‘ failed once again to engage the eastern europeans (or anybody else in europe dumb enough).

At least the crap remover (this years ‘right colour’ uk’s contestant) was not a trans-gendered airline employee (from last years dr who coverage).

So what have we learned about ‘Britain’* in europe under Gordon Brown ?, well airline employees cannot sing, and garbage collectors don’t engage, but its ’socialist’ by nature.

Don’t worry for bananas in the falklands is only aware of this ‘lets makes the idiots of europe aware of europe’ event by the rescheduling of Dr Who. After all just who the fuck gives a shit what some old retired shit for brains irishman ** thinks.

Oh Never heard or saw any of it.

* as run from Scotland, ** not British either.