You can just get the song you want rather than the whole album. It's rare today to actually like all the songs on an album.
Proprietary/Non-Portable format? What, you plan on running it on what? iTunes plays on Windows and Mac. What more do you want? Linux? There are plenty of ways to get a purchased song to work on Linux. Oh, and you do get album artwork.
Go back to drinking whatever flavor of Kool-Aid you have been drinking (me thinks it's Linux/Microsoft blend).
"Hurricanes form over tropical waters (between 8 and 20 latitude) in areas of high humidity, light winds, and warm sea surface temperatures (typically 26.5C [80F] or greater). These conditions usually prevail in the summer and early fall months of the tropical North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans and for this reason, hurricane "season" in the northern hemisphere runs from June through November."
The air temp is going to be cooler, but you need to have the right formation conditions.
Seriously. We like to think we know everything. How can we say there is global warming when we have maybe 100 years on the subject. Same thing for Hurricanes. It's amazing. We've become experts until we fall flat on our faces again (like in Katrina).
Or maybe finding better artists? Is it me or in the last 8 years or so has popular music sucked?
American Idol stars suck. I mean, there is that new chick who's doing M&M ads? WTF?
My big problem with new releases is the price. How can they keep charging $15+ a CD when I can buy 100 CDs in bulk for that much (or less!). I strictly buy my CDs used or via BMG. But BMG charges way too much for shipping. It's insane!
I can see how someone would just download it and not have to deal with it. I mean, who really cares about the latest Kayne West or Jay Z releases? They all sound like crap to me.
Microsoft has had DRM since......XP? Wasn't XP the first version required to "phone home" and verify itself? And Pirates had a version out that bypassed this before the product shipped.
In fact, if I remember correctly, when Service Pack 2 came out, it effectively nullified a lot of "dubious" XP installs. It didn't worked, obviously.
We can wax-poetic about DRM, but the idea of incremental updates is a step forward.
A failed drive is not worth the effort to try to get stuff off of. I had a drive fail on a computer that was nonimportant. I had a recovery program run a WEEK trying to get stuff of it. It did, mostly.
Hard drives are cheap. What is more expensive, the time you spent fucking around trying to get something off a failed drive, or buying a backup drive. For me, the answer is simple.
Go back to with your P133 server or whatever you do....
Oh, thats a good reason. Your drive fails and you blame the filesystem. Smart you are. NOT.
Get a RAID. Mirror it or RAID5 it. I run a studio, and we have a server I build using 4 250 gig drives, RAID 5ed, running on a P4, using an Adaptec 2400. Old school RAID. Works great. Already had a drive fail, and it took about 20 hours to rebuild the array, but everything worked.
Totally don't agree. I've used SmartScore. I own the latest version. It does NOT work as advertised. It is much easier to step enter notes than have SmartScore scan it and then have to clean it up.
Funny that just NOW they read that Windows+Apache=Problems.
I don't get why you'd want to run an Oracle DB on Windows. Or even a webserver on Windows. When I did Oracle DB programming, the Linux version, on the same hardware, ran a ton faster.....
1 and 2 are solved by a thing called STEP ENTRY. Easy, simple, fast.
3 is doubtful. I couldn't get any of the scanning software I have (Scoreperfect I think its called, but I don't remember) to do a simple sheet from Green Day.
Exactly. To claify though, most of the scanning software scans at 300dpi. So, it really doesn't matter what scanner you get. I'd get something that could handle larger paper, as scores are sometimes on something bigger than 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
Still, I've found it is less time consuming just to enter the stuff. Most things are doubled in other instruments anyhow, so you just copy and paste.....
Being a professional musician myself, I have tried a lot of these software scanning solutions. Basically, it's easier and faster to just enter scores into a sequencer (like Digital Performer than to deal with the corrections you have to make when dealing with these music to midi scanners.
Save yourself time and money. Get a good keyboard, synth module, and a sequencer and do it that way. Scanning it to midi just doesn't ever work right.
In related news, Eric S. Raymond is going to take a microsoft job. The thinking is that he can cause the most damage from within. "I look forward to sending Billy virus emails and trojans on the company's Exchange server, along with the daily anonymous note saying Open Source Rulez."
Another related story.....Hell has been found, frozen, and the properties are indeed superconducting.
Pig were seen falling from the sky. Experts advise to stay indoors. The Mayor says to evacute, the Governor says no.
In all seriousness though, there might be a virus coming. Just like there is an huge mass of rock going to hit the earth someday. When it happens, I'm sure it will cause a stir. However, since it has not happened, and since Pre-OS X systems did have a few viruses, even though they had way less market share than they do now, I think it must be a little more difficult to write than it is on Windows. OS X asks for passwords when doing things that install or modify the system. Windows does not (or I've never seen it ask for it.....and I have been running it for years XP, 2000, etc).
I'm not worried. I do surf the web on my Mac behind a firewall, but sans virus/spywear scanners.
"modding it to do something illegal". Really? So the DVD cracks and stuff I have on my Pioneer 109 is illegal? It sure makes the player more stable.
It's about modifying it. Whether or not you use it for illegal purposes doesn't matter. I could use the car mods for speeding, but I could use the car mods to make it more responsive. It depends on how it's used.
As for affecting the company.....so if you use non-company parts in your car, are you doing something illegal? So I buy a DVD recorder, and mod it with different firmware. Isn't it the same thing as modding your car to do something that might be construded as "illegal"? Is buying a gun for sport shooting (not that I like guns, I don't) mean that you are going to use it for illegal endeavours?
I think once you BUY something, you can do whatever you want with it. You can take it apart, whatever. Not that it matters, but people will mod their Blu-Ray players. I'll be one of them.
Seriously. If I buy a car, and add different wheels to it, would I get locked out of my car? If I added an extra air-intake to get more horsepower, would I get locked out?
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Proprietary/Non-Portable format? What, you plan on running it on what? iTunes plays on Windows and Mac. What more do you want? Linux? There are plenty of ways to get a purchased song to work on Linux. Oh, and you do get album artwork.
Go back to drinking whatever flavor of Kool-Aid you have been drinking (me thinks it's Linux/Microsoft blend).
And he blew up the levys in New Orleans.
Seriously. We like to think we know everything. How can we say there is global warming when we have maybe 100 years on the subject. Same thing for Hurricanes. It's amazing. We've become experts until we fall flat on our faces again (like in Katrina).
Wait. Slashdot has been there, done that....
American Idol stars suck. I mean, there is that new chick who's doing M&M ads? WTF?
My big problem with new releases is the price. How can they keep charging $15+ a CD when I can buy 100 CDs in bulk for that much (or less!). I strictly buy my CDs used or via BMG. But BMG charges way too much for shipping. It's insane!
I can see how someone would just download it and not have to deal with it. I mean, who really cares about the latest Kayne West or Jay Z releases? They all sound like crap to me.
There are other things that make FireFox great too, like, um, the ability to surf the sea of IE scripts/VB malware with impunity.
I think the IE development team drinks too much team Microsoft Kool-aid.
In fact, if I remember correctly, when Service Pack 2 came out, it effectively nullified a lot of "dubious" XP installs. It didn't worked, obviously.
We can wax-poetic about DRM, but the idea of incremental updates is a step forward.
Oh, I forgot, since Microsuck is doing it, it is Innovation. Gotcha.
It makes more sense though, if they copy, I mean, innovate it like the Apple way...
Wonder if, secretly, Bill Gates runs Firefox.....and his "engineers" are buying copying, I mean, Innovating for the next version of Internet Explorer.
Hard drives are cheap. What is more expensive, the time you spent fucking around trying to get something off a failed drive, or buying a backup drive. For me, the answer is simple.
Go back to with your P133 server or whatever you do....
Get a RAID. Mirror it or RAID5 it. I run a studio, and we have a server I build using 4 250 gig drives, RAID 5ed, running on a P4, using an Adaptec 2400. Old school RAID. Works great. Already had a drive fail, and it took about 20 hours to rebuild the array, but everything worked.
Totally don't agree. I've used SmartScore. I own the latest version. It does NOT work as advertised. It is much easier to step enter notes than have SmartScore scan it and then have to clean it up.
I don't get why you'd want to run an Oracle DB on Windows. Or even a webserver on Windows. When I did Oracle DB programming, the Linux version, on the same hardware, ran a ton faster.....
3 is doubtful. I couldn't get any of the scanning software I have (Scoreperfect I think its called, but I don't remember) to do a simple sheet from Green Day.
Wow, you had paper? In my day we used stone. And we liked it.
Huh? Oh....I get it. Scan it with your eyeballs......gotcha
Still, I've found it is less time consuming just to enter the stuff. Most things are doubled in other instruments anyhow, so you just copy and paste.....
Save yourself time and money. Get a good keyboard, synth module, and a sequencer and do it that way. Scanning it to midi just doesn't ever work right.
Another related story.....Hell has been found, frozen, and the properties are indeed superconducting.
Pig were seen falling from the sky. Experts advise to stay indoors. The Mayor says to evacute, the Governor says no.
In all seriousness though, there might be a virus coming. Just like there is an huge mass of rock going to hit the earth someday. When it happens, I'm sure it will cause a stir. However, since it has not happened, and since Pre-OS X systems did have a few viruses, even though they had way less market share than they do now, I think it must be a little more difficult to write than it is on Windows. OS X asks for passwords when doing things that install or modify the system. Windows does not (or I've never seen it ask for it.....and I have been running it for years XP, 2000, etc).
I'm not worried. I do surf the web on my Mac behind a firewall, but sans virus/spywear scanners.
I mean, they've resisted for 8 years changing the format.....
In my NON-Work time. I don't work 9-5 thanks.
Look at Slashdot as an example. Daily duplicates, errors, misquotes. Lazy? I'd say YES.
It's about modifying it. Whether or not you use it for illegal purposes doesn't matter. I could use the car mods for speeding, but I could use the car mods to make it more responsive. It depends on how it's used.
As for affecting the company.....so if you use non-company parts in your car, are you doing something illegal? So I buy a DVD recorder, and mod it with different firmware. Isn't it the same thing as modding your car to do something that might be construded as "illegal"? Is buying a gun for sport shooting (not that I like guns, I don't) mean that you are going to use it for illegal endeavours?
I think once you BUY something, you can do whatever you want with it. You can take it apart, whatever. Not that it matters, but people will mod their Blu-Ray players. I'll be one of them.
This is insane. This DRM stuff has to stop!