I work in a research facility at UC Riverside (sysadmin), I can tell you there is a BUTTLOAD of money out there for research... it is however heavily competed for... the Nation Science Foundation, Air Force, large corporations hand out money like candy
BUT, your right -- theres never gonna be a research grant for makeing a dinosaur chicken simply because the idea is stupid:)
Making fun of slashdot latley reminds me alot of peoples attitudes about the Star Wars Episode I when it came out -- everyone bitched about it but they still kept going back to see it again.
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I used to be the head of the now defunct "LAMP" Linux Advance Multimedia Project -- and we tried to do this same thing... Its true that some of the latency stuff was neat --
But the whole thing just turned out to be a disaster:) The audio software was UBER fidgitdy -- *IF* it complied it usually segfaulted -- projects were abondoned -- and programs that did operate were 5 years behind their windows brethren...
Another problem -- DirectX and VST plugins are really the spice of life for EM's... theres nothing beyond simple reverbs / chorus / flangers / delays built into the programs, and theres no plugin API IIRC so:)
What needs to happen -- is for someone like Steinberg or Emagic to get behind linux -- which might actually be a possibility since before BE died it was clearly on everyones radar. A good marketer would be looking for something to replace BE...
Ultimatley though, the windows performance for audio is pretty good -- with a FAST cpu most ASIO sound cards can easily do 1ms latency -- which is far below the latency of a synthesizer even -- also soft synths like Reality (www.seersystems.com) have kernel drivers taht can reduce their latencey to 3 - 5ms even on slow machines like P1'S and PII's [win98 only]... The trick to having a good audio machine for windows is to not load it up with windows crap that'll eat ram... just use the machine for audio, no icq, aol, norton antivirus (have another machine scan that one), no photoshop, no VSC++, just cubase and your plugins:)
I was wondering this same thing -- could someone explain how foreign nationals fall under american domestic law? Both in the case of john johanson and this guy
They do the same thing to us for the phone, the charge 4c/minute to call outside the campus. That goes for students in dorms, departments on campus...
Another one like that -- to enter the division one league we needed some outrageous fortune like 30 million dollars or something -- they held a "vote" to approve the 60$ per quarter fee hike for the students -- final vote, 900 for, 50 against. On a campus of 12,000 people. There were no annoncements there was going to be a vote, it was held during finals IIRC, and 900 people seems about the size of the athletics department!
But there's no way in hell it's going to get this technology made illegal.
Not illegal, fraud. They wont tell us the name of the CD because they fear a class action lawsuit... How would you like your money back and 100$ in punitive damages x 100,000 people?
The idea that a copyright holder is legally obligated to produce a work in a form that is compatible...
Once again -- they can release their work in whatever format they'd like, but if they market it as a CD it damn well better be a *fully compatible cd.* Second of all, corporations do not have absolutle power over their works *by law* so get that out of your head. The act of selling a work alone reduces their rights -- if they want COMPLETE control then they musn't release the work.
Your so full of shit its not funny. Authors do not have the right to *complete control over their works*. When you buy a copyrighted thing, you are granted fair use rights. This is simply an attempt to underminde fair use.
Up to including music CDs with microbursts of static interspersed with the music.
This is also wrong -- the cd has errors on it on purpose *to undermine fair use*. I open each of my cds exactly once, make mp3s of it, and then the cd goes in a box in my closet -- I listen to all my music on my computer or my mp3 player. I don't even own a cd player. *THIS I PERFECTLY LEGAL.*
The fact alone that they are unwiling to say what cd(s) are copy-protected is essentially an admission of guilt -- they are *misrepresenting the CD* and this is fraud.
My *GOD* I hate the cola wars. My university (UC Riverside) is a *pepsi* school, theres not a drop of something decent do drink, and the price is outrageous 1$ for a 12 ounce bottle of pepsi / water / juice. 1$ for WATER! And the school has purposefully not put in drinking fountains, or when thats not legal, they've hidden them. "Yeah, the drinking fountain, follow that path and turn left into a building, make a left then a right, and your there."
Another scam they have is steelcase furniture, departments are only allowed to buy steelcase furniture (which also sucks by the way), and the university has a special *deal* with steelcase to get a discount -- but your department pays an inflated price and the univeresity keeps the difference!
Universites are just leading the trend here, high schools, middle schools, grade schools, are all headed this direction as well -- so whats to think they'd have a problem helping out the RIAA for a few $$?
A 70 year old woman is not going to pack her new PC into her car and drive it on back to the store, except to demand her money back.
I live in a retirement community in southern california... A buddy of mine works at the sears out here, and the computer department has *EXACTLY* this problem. The department has been losing money since it opened because the elderly buy computers, can't work them or do something stupid -- then take them back... They've been loosing money hand over fist but aren't allowed to close the department because sears requires them to have one.
A true story about the kind of customers they get:
"Hey son, that computer you sold me last week is broke, Im gonna bring it back." "Well sir, whats wrong with it?" "The screen is half taken up by this grey thing!" "Does the grey thing happen to say 'start'" "Yes it does!!"...
....It's multitasking is far superior to WinME's, both in responsivness and speed
ah ha! you've wandered onto one of MS's sneakiest tactics... *Purposley* making shitty software so they can claim to have "improved" it in newer versins... What you SHOULD be thinking is "Gee, WinME has shitty multi-tasking" not "Gee, XP has good multitasking"...
Immagine how much money they could make if they made a copy of Word where objects didn't jump around everytime you inserted text
a better question would be "what was the first pay software?"... back in the day -- software was given away to add value to (profitable) hardware sales... most of the time this included source code:)
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actually... write music for my (ain't makin a dime) audio production company, thehumbleguys:)
I suppose a more accurate title would have been "A computer person with an amateur DJ's problem"
A computer person with an audiophiles problem :)
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Goto audio stores -- guitar center, mars music, etc... or online at like 8thstreet.com, musiciansfriend.com... as long as your equiptment is standard 19" you shouldn't have a problem... (8th street will have the best prices)... just watch the depth, some racks aren't as deep as others... can occassionally cause trouble.
In particular check out the offerings from "Raxxess" on 8th street, they're pretty cheap -- and not particularaly well made, but they are very good when you consider price/performance. I myself have their ~30 unit rack (for my synthesizers) and it works quite well.
The problem Im having right now -- is I can't get anything to compile on them... we spent 27,000$ on the machine (An octane in 1997) and have no media kit, no compiler, and scant manuals...
I installed gcc and simple programs will compile, but just about anything that needs kernel headers -- won't compile...
As the economy leaves wrecked companies in its wake...
The ECONOMY leaves wrecked companies in its wake? I have news for the author: the internet has spawned the greatest percentage of *the stupidest* business plans in all recorded history. Even con-men were on better ground then alot of these internet firms...
I hate to see stupidity
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A "clear and present danger" is something like "Hey, those guys over there are dumping chemicals into the river" not "hey, that SUV dealership has SUV's that polute"...
I would hope in the future, things like burning down SUV dealerships should be reserved for when there is a "clear and present danger" to the enviornment.
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also unlike standard midi instruments, csound can take an unlimited amount of time to render :-)
wow, thats very cool :) now if *any* of my music hardware was supported in linux ... :)
BUT, your right -- theres never gonna be a research grant for makeing a dinosaur chicken simply because the idea is stupid :)
Making fun of slashdot latley reminds me alot of peoples attitudes about the Star Wars Episode I when it came out -- everyone bitched about it but they still kept going back to see it again.
What needs to happen -- is for someone like Steinberg or Emagic to get behind linux -- which might actually be a possibility since before BE died it was clearly on everyones radar. A good marketer would be looking for something to replace BE...
Ultimatley though, the windows performance for audio is pretty good -- with a FAST cpu most ASIO sound cards can easily do 1ms latency -- which is far below the latency of a synthesizer even -- also soft synths like Reality (www.seersystems.com) have kernel drivers taht can reduce their latencey to 3 - 5ms even on slow machines like P1'S and PII's [win98 only]... The trick to having a good audio machine for windows is to not load it up with windows crap that'll eat ram ... just use the machine for audio, no icq, aol, norton antivirus (have another machine scan that one), no photoshop, no VSC++, just cubase and your plugins :)
I was wondering this same thing -- could someone explain how foreign nationals fall under american domestic law? Both in the case of john johanson and this guy
They do the same thing to us for the phone, the charge 4c/minute to call outside the campus. That goes for students in dorms, departments on campus ...
Another one like that -- to enter the division one league we needed some outrageous fortune like 30 million dollars or something -- they held a "vote" to approve the 60$ per quarter fee hike for the students -- final vote, 900 for, 50 against. On a campus of 12,000 people. There were no annoncements there was going to be a vote, it was held during finals IIRC, and 900 people seems about the size of the athletics department!
Not illegal, fraud. They wont tell us the name of the CD because they fear a class action lawsuit ... How would you like your money back and 100$ in punitive damages x 100,000 people?
The idea that a copyright holder is legally obligated to produce a work in a form that is compatible...
Once again -- they can release their work in whatever format they'd like, but if they market it as a CD it damn well better be a *fully compatible cd.* Second of all, corporations do not have absolutle power over their works *by law* so get that out of your head. The act of selling a work alone reduces their rights -- if they want COMPLETE control then they musn't release the work.
Quite sure ... I could list 100 other scams they run if you'd like ...
Up to including music CDs with microbursts of static interspersed with the music.
This is also wrong -- the cd has errors on it on purpose *to undermine fair use*. I open each of my cds exactly once, make mp3s of it, and then the cd goes in a box in my closet -- I listen to all my music on my computer or my mp3 player. I don't even own a cd player. *THIS I PERFECTLY LEGAL.*
The fact alone that they are unwiling to say what cd(s) are copy-protected is essentially an admission of guilt -- they are *misrepresenting the CD* and this is fraud.
Another scam they have is steelcase furniture, departments are only allowed to buy steelcase furniture (which also sucks by the way), and the university has a special *deal* with steelcase to get a discount -- but your department pays an inflated price and the univeresity keeps the difference!
Universites are just leading the trend here, high schools, middle schools, grade schools, are all headed this direction as well -- so whats to think they'd have a problem helping out the RIAA for a few $$?
Please don't insult POVRay like that -- this is obviously the work of one of those "3d web graphics" programs you see in compusa for 20$ :)
I live in a retirement community in southern california ... A buddy of mine works at the sears out here, and the computer department has *EXACTLY* this problem. The department has been losing money since it opened because the elderly buy computers, can't work them or do something stupid -- then take them back ... They've been loosing money hand over fist but aren't allowed to close the department because sears requires them to have one.
A true story about the kind of customers they get: "Hey son, that computer you sold me last week is broke, Im gonna bring it back." "Well sir, whats wrong with it?" "The screen is half taken up by this grey thing!" "Does the grey thing happen to say 'start'" "Yes it does!!" ...
ah ha! you've wandered onto one of MS's sneakiest tactics ... *Purposley* making shitty software so they can claim to have "improved" it in newer versins ... What you SHOULD be thinking is "Gee, WinME has shitty multi-tasking" not "Gee, XP has good multitasking" ...
Immagine how much money they could make if they made a copy of Word where objects didn't jump around everytime you inserted text
a better question would be "what was the first pay software?" ... back in the day -- software was given away to add value to (profitable) hardware sales ... most of the time this included source code :)
I suppose a more accurate title would have been "A computer person with an amateur DJ's problem"
In particular check out the offerings from "Raxxess" on 8th street, they're pretty cheap -- and not particularaly well made, but they are very good when you consider price/performance. I myself have their ~30 unit rack (for my synthesizers) and it works quite well.
hope this helps
I installed gcc and simple programs will compile, but just about anything that needs kernel headers -- won't compile ...
But the difference is, the GPL grants you EXTRA rights above and beyond copyright, and EULA's seek to take rights away ...
I used to fuck a girl who played cinderella at disneyland and caught a VD from her ...:)
Id like to know what kind of GPS they have that will work indoors ... my handheld unit NEVER works indoors, and sometimes not even in my car :)
Ohhhh but I know a troll when I see one, and your not even a good one.
The ECONOMY leaves wrecked companies in its wake? I have news for the author: the internet has spawned the greatest percentage of *the stupidest* business plans in all recorded history. Even con-men were on better ground then alot of these internet firms ...
I hate to see stupidity
A "clear and present danger" is something like "Hey, those guys over there are dumping chemicals into the river" not "hey, that SUV dealership has SUV's that polute" ...
I would hope in the future, things like burning down SUV dealerships should be reserved for when there is a "clear and present danger" to the enviornment.