Word: compacting
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With the spread of instantly accessible digital media, music will no longer be constrained by the time limits of a compact disc. Single pieces of music could be 75 minutes long, or six months long, or virtually infinite. With the sequencing technology that I have in my home studio now, I could start playing a piece of music that would still be playing five years from now. People in the future will be able to drive down the road and, through voice commands, take the drums from a Led Zeppelin song and put Billie Holiday's vocals...
...something. Ferret ownership has doubled in the past five years; 6 million are now in U.S. homes, placing them third in popularity among mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs...
...those admirers who still wanted to hear the artist recite his own work, Williams joked that his second book does come with a compact disc...
...wowed crowds at the photo industry's annual conference in Las Vegas last week with the first 6.1- megapixel digital camera--nearly twice the resolution of new models from Nikon, Olympus and Sony. The FinePix S1 Pro uses Super CCD technology, which replaces standard square-shaped diodes with more compact octagonal ones for sharper, brighter pics. It's got lots of gewgaws, including multiple-exposure settings, three levels of image compression and a 2-in. liquid-crystal display. Since it won't be out until April, you have a few months to save the $4,000 it will cost...
...found their way onto his playlist), but listening to the album is nowhere near as fun as hearing him live, even if it's a good recording. Perhaps what the night proved was that DJs--more than any other kind of musician, perhaps--are not suitable to export by compact disc. Lucky thing they can afford airplanes...