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York William Morrow Grateful Dead
1,754 wordsWhat a long strange trip it has been was the theme from my graduation last year. The only reason that I am telling you that is because that is a classic quote from the leader of the band, Grateful Dead. And if you stop and think about it, it makes complete sense. Life seems to be this strange trip and we are all on this same boat. Jerry Garcia was a great musician, and also a poet. Everything that he said either in his music or through his guitar, which some people would argue that its the great...
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Cd Rom Drive Mp 3 Files
1,482 wordsMotion-Picture-Experts Group, Audio Level 3 (or more commonly known as MP 3) -- this new form of audio compression has become a wide topic of controversy over the past few years. MP 3 has caused a wide debate over legal and ethical issues since its release in January 1995. Many court cases and lawsuits have resulted from the release of this new technological innovation and there are sure to be many more. MP 3 s are highly compressed audio files that can be stored on any computer storage medium. ...
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Record Companies File Sharing
737 wordsWhen I found out that colleges around the nation blocked the use of napster from all students I was very angry. Not only did they take away a students freedom of expression but also their constitutional rights as individuals. They need to review the constitution over again. What students in that situation need to do is get petitions going around their college campuses, letters in the email to send to congress and the school staff to let them unblock the usage of napster and keep the online music...
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Music Cds E Commerce
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1,502 wordsSubject: [ 3 - 2 ] How do I extract tracks from, or copy all of, an audio CD? Start with the CD-DA FAQ: web Take a look at web to see if your CD-ROM drive is up to the task. EAC, from web is often recommended for extracting ("ripping") audio tracks. To copy from CD to CD, the source drive needs to support digital audio extraction, which is rare among older drives but very common in current models. Ideally, the copy program will use disc-at-once recording to produce a duplicate that mimics the or...
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1,684 wordsIn 1998, a computer science major at Northeastern University, sat in front of his computer and started to create a program that would help the common man, spark controversy, and change and revolutionize the music industry. His name is Shawn Fanning, and his creation is Napster. Napster would forever change the way people would listen, share and acquire music, and the music industry would never again be the same. Napster, launched early in 1999, allows Internet users to share and download MP 3 fi...
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Deep Breath Fifteen Years
924 wordsPersonal computer (pc) repair technicians and doctors have a lot in common. Patients arrive at the doctor's door bearing all manner of complaints or problems. I am sure doctors have seen and heard about every type of ignorant stunt a person can think of or do. My name is Skeeter Jones, and I have been a pc repair technician for approximately fifteen years. Like a doctor, I thought I had seen and heard of every crazy stunt imaginable until I received a call from Headaches, Incorporated about a co...
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Recording Industry Association Intellectual Property
1,401 words... for users to download an MP 3 (even an illegal one) and then decide to purchase an album is still there, but is probably reduced if all material is available for free on the Internet. Discussion While there are many debates about what is going on with copyright laws and technology, one thing is clear: change is inevitable. For better or worse, with every new technology, new regulations seem to appear. And, whether we agree with it or not, regulations are already in the works for digital musi...
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Mutual Funds Brokerage Firms
1,738 wordsInvestment Class For millions of investors, a frantic rush to contribute to Individual Retirement Accounts before filing their tax returns has become a rite of spring. But procrastinator or not, you have new choices for your IRA this year, including more bank certificates of deposit at attractive market interest rates, now that nearly all government ceilings have been removed. And if this is your second or third year of funneling money into just one type of IRA, it's time you diversified. Invest...
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2,882 wordsDigital Bootlegging and Its effects on the Music Industry Before the advent of MP 3 files it would require 1. 400 megabytes to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. MP 3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III. Standard MP 3 compression is at a 10: 1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track. In 1987, Prof. Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen created the MP 3 format to replace pre-existing MPEG audio coding. The reason MP ...
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Women And Children Billion Dollars
1,963 wordsCrime and the Black Market in Modern Day China With a population of approximately 1, 203, 097, 268 people, China, who has the worlds largest population, also has the worlds fastest growing black market and crime problem. In China, crime rates have been climbing an estimated 10 percent a year since the early 1980 s. China is a country that is currently experiencing both political and economic instability. Economic reforms that have been put in place by the government have only widened the income ...
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Cycles Per Second Charles Babbage
2,421 wordsDEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS OVER THE DECADES What is a computer? A Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions, or program, and then carry out this program by performing calculations on numerical data or by compiling and correlating other forms of information. Thesis Statement: - The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout society in the storage and h...
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2,392 wordsE-COMMERCE AND MY BUYING PREFERENCES INTRODUCTION E-Commerce is the buying of products and services over the Internet. This is an area that is gaining popularity extremely fast and is one that has tremendous potential. My project looks at e-commerce from my personal standpoint or a customer? s standpoint. I will basically be looking at how I, being the customer, view e-commerce and how I use it to my benefit. In this project I will talk about some general criteria that I use to evaluate products...
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Quot And Quot Ibm Compatible
1,267 wordsOverview One of the original architects of the business mainframe computer, including IBMs System/ 360 computer line, Amdahl started the IBM-compatible market when he left IBM to found Amdahl Corporation. Amdahl's work has been called brilliant and genius by his peers. The Times of London named him one of the " 1, 000 Makers of the 20 th Century" in 1991, and mainframe magazine Computerworld considered Amdahl one of the 25 people " who changed the world. " He is the founder o...
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Copyright Laws Mp 3
985 wordsSubject: MP 3 One of Mp 3 MP 3 Subject: MP 3 One of the most exciting and innovative ways to get music these days is not in the mall and not at a huge mega electronic store, its not even by a mail order CD club, it sits right on a desk and can allow you access to almost any kind of music available right in our home. Technology is changing the way we listen to music now downloading an MP 3 from the Internet is as easy if not a lot easier than going to the store and buying the CD. An MP 3 is a nea...
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Mp 3 File Steady Increase
866 wordsDuring the last seven years, there has been a market boom with the use of the Internet and e-commerce to manage business tycoon companies to the everyday mom and pop stores. Also, there has been a steady increase in the annual sales reported by big record labels and independent recording companies during the Internet explosion. Since technology was created to benefit mankind in facilitating our lives, computerized audio extraction programs (known as burning appz's) have been developed in order t...
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Riaa Has Overstepped Their Boundaries Overstepped Their Boundaries Napster
802 wordsNapster Under Glass Online, you can find a digital version of any song that your heart desires from classical to hardcore to country in less than 10 15 minutes. Terabytes or 1000000000000 (a trillion) bytes of Mp 3 files can be found online at peak times, which roughly translates to 330, 000 songs in 3100 different collections. A Mp 3 is an individual song converted into a digital format and playable on computers. A popular program easily accessible on the Internet is called Napster. After you d...
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