Jobs bought the interface off of Xerox and Xerox invested heavily into Apple at the time.
The first GUI for mac looked NOTHING like the Xerox one other than it used a mouse and graphical elements. Some of the Mac / Lisa guys were already working on graphical elements and a folder hierachy that became the basis of the Mac. Add to that the common elements and it was a completely new interface.
The first few iterations of Windows were lame attempts to copy what Apple had licensed and were now legal owners of, as well as everything else.
Mac wasn't inspired by Xerox, but influenced by it. Windows as directly ripped from the Mac to the point its engineers decided to do things like throw menus in different locations and button positions in highly odd locations simply to prove it wasn't.
Seriously, I've stuck it out in my Research / IT position for years and I've had a few gigs pop up that I've kicked myself for not taking...only to be vindicated later.
Anymore, I stick with Music Tech instead of actually playing, and just recently I was offered a music tech position with the opportunity to play as 'understudy' (not really sure what they call them in rawk) for a well known artist (multiple grammies...all that) for a 9 Month gig, including 2 months overseas. I had to turn it down -- even though it roughly paid 3x what I would at my university job because the university is stable and I had things to think about like House Payments and Student Loans and other such items that would still be there when I got back, while a job wouldn't be...and face it, regardless of how much you get paid, while on the road you are going to go nutty with the $$$.
As it stands, I do maybe one or two shows a month at most if friends are touring in the Midwest (anywhere within 7 hours driving from Indianapolis -- unless they want to fly me out for the weekend, which happens occasionally). Its not the rawkstar life, but then again, its fun (and actually pays a bit more than the average job). As ya say Mike, all the IT things listed ARE things the bands need and really have few folks that can do this...this is one of the reasons I've hooked up with so many acts as they need folks that can do this -- and at the same time not act like ignorant fanboys:-)
So yeah, my side business is an IT company that provides services to musicians. Its been there for a few causes over the years as well where we could do some good -- just last year, we put on a charity benefit with a *HUGE* soul artist and raised a quarter million dollars for breast cancer research (and convinced the artists to do the show for free). Not bad for a midwest show in the middle of someones horse ranch:-)
So yeah, do the music stuff, just don't get suckered into giving everything up. As I've mentioned, I have been vindicated in the past for not taking some 'sure thing' gigs -- year long world tours that are canceled a month into the gig with folks still asking for the pay for services already rendered -- let alone lost wages. I've seen that happen more than once. All I can say is if you go against this advice, find a *GOOD* industry lawyer that isn't connected to the bigger acts or that acts label...they WILL do whats necessary to protect their bigger investment and industry lawyers are known for not respecting bounds of conflicts. Make sure the contract is airtight and its not as if you can't get it ammended. I've had a few that were unnegotiable, and the $200 I spent to the laywer to make 3 or 4 changes is generally well worth the money (just look at him as if he were your manager -- without the 10% -- though from past experience, it ends up being about that much anyways).
Anywho...back to my day job that I love dearly:-) Check out my site -- its mostly music tech stuff, but there are a lot of 24/7 musicians there and they can offer suggestions as well...
"Adding a handle is not going to make ANYONE more likely to carry it around nevermind ladies"
I don't know.
My G4 has a handle (actually 4) and I've only moved it a few times in the last few years. *BUT* the few times I've had to move it, its been much nicer to grab and carry with my one good hand (I've got rhumatory arthritus in my dominant hand) and it wasn't a problem. My PC, on the other hand, is about the same size and to pick it up is a two handed exercise, with having to shift back and forth to open doors and otherwise.
But of course, thats manly to struggle with something, ain't it. And its manly to have big pieces of equipment that has no aestetic flair. I could care less about the looks, but its nice when folks come into my studio and see it as it is almost proof that I am an artist -- at least to the folks that don't know me any better -- and feel if I'm willing to buy something that looks good in my office, I'm more than likely going to give them something back that has a little more style than the guy down the road...then again, in my day job -- they don't give a fuck about that and just want my program on their desk by 9AM tommorow morning. Different markets.
As for 1000 options to import data, you might be right, but using my digital camera as well as several bluetooth products, its also nice that I can just drop the card into the sucker, it pulls up the photo and prints a nice proof without having to deal with the computer. If I had a camera phone, which I still think is an abomination (ever try to find a bluetooth phone without one...I was happy to find the T608 didn't have one), and used it, I think it would be great just to press the phones menu and get the stuff out without going through 5 extra steps.
IMHO, that is KISS. Keeping it simple means different things to different people. The device might be complex, but the end user doesn't have to think about how to get data into it because there are a dozen routes that all work the same because technically, all the device wasn't is the data and the extra conduits do not add up to any more complexity internally.
That was the same reason I served on my jury a few years back. My boss got pinged for jury duty the exact same day (we could have been on the same case, but his was another township:-)
He came back the next day bragging about getting out of duty, while I spent the rest of the afternoon listening to a case that ended up being dismissed about 12 hours later. If it would have gone for a few more days, I wouldn't have minded.
There are too many ignorant folks on juries...then again, the jury I was on was entirely professionals that all seemed to feel the same way about not getting out of the duty.
Personally, I don't think one should be considered a citizen if they feel that jury duty is a moronic option. There are several ways to support your gov't, out of them, serving on a jury is probably the easiest to do. if ya don't want to serve jury duty, then you should loose a few rights...maybe at the least the right to vote. If you are too important to deal with people one on one and help out the democratic system, you shouldn't be able to work with the more important aspects of it...
Why did Cubase get sold for dirt cheep to a company that doesn't even understand DAWs (and rumor has it, more than half of the selling price went DIRECTLY to paying the debt of the company...the new company didn't assume any of this).
Piracy is the assholes way of doing anything. If you want something that costs, pay for it. If you don't want to pay the costs that they want you to, don't use it. Audacity is something I've actually installed at a clients place in the past because he wanted me to give him a copy of Cakewake (the guy is willing to pay my $75 an hour, but not willing to buy a $300 software -- one that would EASILY be made up in the cost of dealing with crack and hack issues that always come up with pirated apps).
The thing folks don't understand about the music industry is that that guys that are making money at this stuff do not pay for it. Its used as advertisement in exchange for endorsements. I haven't paid for software in YEARS, yet everything is legit. Then again, I know enough bigger guys and can convert them to different softwares that they see my getting the software as a plus.
The hobbiest is the market each and every one of these music companies are targetting. They want (fuck, I can't even think of why the kiddies listen to these days...I work with old farts that might not sell a billion albums, but consistantly put out decent albums that sell midrange...they are the insurance acts of the industry). They want ******* to say they used some software so every f'n kiddie in the world wants to use it and buys a legitimate copy. They want everyone to know they use Martin Guitars or Zildian cymbals or Yamaha synths or whatever, when the average person would be fine with a Soundblaster (yech) and a pawn shopped $50 instrument.
So, you do a diservice by pirating any of this shit...you do a disservice to the whole community by pirating it. Do yourself a favor and check out the free softwares because they will do 90% of what the end user wants and needs and if they need that extra 10% -- then a grand is NOT a lot of money for that software.
Don't fuck over the software companies just because they aren't offering something you can't steal. Would you claim that theft keeps down the prices on guitars for hobbiests? If so, you are a dumbass. Just because its bits and bytes on magnetic media doesn't make it any less theft. I wish we would stop calling this stuff piracy and start calling it outright theivery.
Time to download the lastest Audacity and see what it has...
You mean if you want to try a really buggy version of the application instead of one that just couldn't save, you can find the cracked version on the PC and never have to buy the real thing which you never planned on in the first place?
Past that, the VSTs that aren't released on the Mac are generally kiddie VSTs that while interesting are full of aliasing and otherwise. Lots of common mistakes programmed by folks that don't have a clue about DSP programming, but found that they can use Delphi to hack something together that halfway does what they want. Lots of interesting stuff...very few useful stuff. There is as much *PROFESSIONAL* software on the Mac as on the PC and its far better quality, IMHO. I haven't found a VST yet that was on the PC that I couldn't find AND needed on the Mac -- and some of the interesting stuff that was actually crappy from an audio perspective was far easier to emulate under Reaktor than it would have been to try to program the app in the first place. Reaktor on the Mac has some problems, but nothing one couldn't work around.
Designers don't want them customizable. Being about to tweak every fucking thing on their computer is infact the OPPOSITE of what they want.
They want a computer that works right, is logical to their way of thinking, and is consistant.
Out of all the machines, the Mac OSs of the day have always been more uniform and perfect around the edges than anything else.
Seriously, this is the problem with Linux users -- they think users want more choices. They don't want more, they want the right choices.
I will say this -- I design Windows Applications for a living. A lot of my clients claim they love my apps because it does exactly what they need. I generally think in terms of Mac users when I do this. No extra features just because it can be built into it. At home, I use both Mac and Linux. Yeah -- I have a PC as well to take care of my office needs, but the G4 and powerbook CAN do most of it. The G4 is for my creative business -- I do music technology consulting. Its the PERFECT OS for the creative end...if you don't understand this, you aren't one that truely focuses solely on the creative end. Some of these folks would rather not think about the computer as anything but a pallete and never have to go into mechanic mode -- which honestly, I do more in the PC than I ever do in Linux.
When I really need something to work towards the geek end of things for myself, I pull up Linux -- but with OSX, I'm slowly abandoning this platform for anything but server activities. The only reason in my mind other than religious reasons not to go with Mac is that you can't afford it...in which case, a Linux box is perfect.
So no, Graphic Designers don't go nutty about things like brushed metal...the only folks I hear about the lack of customization are generally geeks. They think that by changing a theme on a windows manager it means they are truely creative...I'm sorry that doesn't get the bills paid.
Most places big enough to have an Apple Store also have a Guitar Center or a Sam Ash -- one of the HUGE music superstores that has about one of everything, and a selection of staff that can't even be bothered to learn about a single item in the store.
Check them out...probably cheaper than Apple too...
Have you ever thought about getting a Mac? It might reduce your need to comment on the mantra.
We might even indoctrinate you into creating your own:-P
Having said that, I've had nothing but troubles getting my Outlook adresses and numbers exported through bluetooth. I ended up having to export the CVS, running a script on the file as its generally messy, and transfering it to my Mac. I never used the AddressBook until that. Why would I? I have it on my PC, and generally I can just remote desktop into any of my PCs if I need to get this info when I'm not near one of them.
I would have rather used the PC's native tongue and transfered that way, but everything I've used sucks. iSync worked perfectly the first time...I was trying to go through the BS of getting it set up once I get the addresses imported and accidently hit Sync...and it did it. Without the 15 minutes of config time I would have had to do otherwise.
Since then, I've found a script that pretty much did what mine did, but is a *LOT* more polished and imports the Exchange CVS directly into AddressBook.
Get a Mac and use it...you won't be disapointed (I have 2 Macs, 2 Linux boxes, a PC and a work PC...I use whatever anyone throws at me).
Manditory DNA testing is invasive. You own your body cells, so even if its just discarded material found on your tooth brush or fingernail clippings, its invasive.
Fingerprinting requires that you be detained -- in effect under arrest. Without a crime, it is considered in most of the world false imprisonment (if not legally, morally).
So, self-incrimination??? I don't get it. If you cut yourself while axing someone, do you get to complain that the blood found is self-incriminating. Bullshit.
Survlance in a public street is and should be legitimate. The minute they start pointing their cameras into my home -- using infrared or other privacy invading technologies, I might get upset. The fact that someone can see you as you walk down the streets is fine with me. I get annoyed when cops follow me -- that is a threatening physical form of intimidation, but cameras? Either you are an idiot or a criminal, or a combination of both if you think this effects you in any way.
Having said that, I still enjoy f'ing with these things with my laser pointer:-) Along the same lines, if its in the street, I shouldn't be allowed to get arrested for pointing a light at something. Civil liberties goes both ways...
You aren't giving large corporations a free gift. You are giving EVERYONE a free gift.
Think about it like having a child. If someone said they'd have a child only if they could control this child for the rest of their lives and enforce decisions on it, you'd think that person was pretty f'd up.
Not all of us think of it as being ripped off if someone takes something we've put out there and uses it and ends up making a buck off of it. On/. you hear on average about once a month some OSS developer going nutty because someone takes a GPL'd product and deciding to do something with it that they didn't want. What was it last? Some company was making a hardware firewall, the creator of the software put GPL'd software out, the company used it pretty much intact and put back the minor changes as required by the GPL, but didn't plaster this guys name all over the site and he decided to close the project.
We've heard this over the FINK software on the Mac...the programmer does all the work, and someone puts up the compiled versions of these apps (along with the source) and he threatens to quit because they are making money and his name is no where to be found except in the licensing agreements.
Thats just damn immature.
I'm not saying all GPL programmers are immature, or even a majority of them are. What I'm saying is that it takes a different mindset to say that someone will put out software, give away the source and let you do as you please without further restrictions.
The arguements for GPL are that you can learn from others. You can still learn from BSD...a good majority of those that use this software contribute back. Not everyone, but most. The biggest company backing BSD is Apple -- they sell more machines with a BSD backing than anyone (well, ignoring the network stack from Win2k+), yet they have no problem resubmitting code to the core programmers.
Its this licensing that made Apple the biggest unix vendor in the world (measured in workstations and servers). If the biggest vendor can do this and contribute, I don't see the problem (other than folks complain the Aqua layers aren't OS).
So, the fact that you are not obligated to do anything is the plus. Those that respect the software WILL contribute. And having a requirement to contribute doesn't leave GPL'd software any safer. Quite a few installers and configuration apps and helper programs are closed source and interact readily with these apps almost as closely as if the app were LGPL'd.
Again, its all about choice to me. Not a religion to me -- I'm just enjoying the arguement. I use as much GPL'd software as I do BSD'd and standard copyrightted stuff like M$ Office. I just know which one I respect more.
My arguments are more of an athiest (more so than an agnostic)...my arguments say make up your own mind as to what you want to do than to say you will follow these commandments (as put forward by both standard licensings schemes as well as OSS GPL). It allows you do to what you want with it.
Its about choice. Religion says you are either for a particular god or you are for their specific satan. Bushie says you are either with us or you are for the terrorists. Etc...
Its not forcing a mandate down your throat. Its telling you that you can choose either.
I don't know where all the idiots get off telling me that choice is a bad thing. I like GPL for a lot of reasons...most of them having to do with the fact I can force others into not making a proffit off my work (at least not without releveling the playing field and giving me back the changes). I like standard copyright because it protects my works from folks forcing me to give away the source. I love BSD because it says fuck this shit...do what they fuck you want to do, I don't care.
It depends on what you want or need at the time. Those of us that are a little more open know this. I am a software developer by trade. I've released applications in all of these (as well as straight public domain). Each one has a specific reason as to why I released it that way...mostly to protect *MY* interests. If it happens to be something that benefits my customers, I'm happy for that as well (though I generally only OS software that I do not want to support any more...let someone else read though and edit the software...unlike most OS programmers, at least I know how to comment:-)
A religion tries to force itself down your throat. If you don't believe in it, you are wrong.
BSD doesn't force any of this. Its practically public domain, but asking that you respect the fact someone else programmed the stuff and display their contribution if prompted. Its more like a faith than a religion. Big difference.
Ya know that if you had gone by what your friend wanted and installed FreeBSD, you would have been installing an OS instead of a religion.
Of course, M$ and Apple are also religions along with Linux, but the BSD license is about the only one thats says We Don't Need Your Fucking Ideals Push On Us Or Anyone Else.
BSD is free in all senses of the word...the only thing these guys ask for is for the credit given back to them (and I think the latest BSD license even took out the 'advertising' clause because whiny GPL Founders complained that this isn't fair -- they want to use the license, but only want to advertise their religion instead of the folks that designed the software (ok, that part was a bit flamebait). BSD doesn't care what you do with the software. Embed it into a commercial app. Cool. Take the software, make no edits, and release it under a religious type licensing. Their programmers don't get all bitchy when someone takes their work and makes a product with it and gets rich while they are left holding a donation hat.
WHY? Because they do this for the greater good. GPL is explicitly there for the eventual removal of copyright -- that might be good, it might not be. There are arguments on both sides. Personally, I don't want my copyrights to be removed simply because I used a piece of open source I found on the net that saved me 10 weeks of programming.
BSD developers don't get into the debate as to whats right or wrong about copyright -- they simply say that this particular piece of software is free to do what they want.
So, deciding on whether you like GPL (Linux) over BSD comes down to personal preference and your zealoustry.
Having said that, I *LOVE* Max OSX and I don't think it would have come out if it was simply Linux with the Aqua Interface as opposed to BSD with the same.
On the non-Mac side, I prefer a certain Linux distro because thats what I'm use to these days (after getting off a commercial release several years back).
So, either decide with your heart (Religion vs. Agnostic) or by the Distro (FreeBSD vs. Debian). There is no wrong choice other than forcing your choice onto others.
Sounds exactly like mine...unfortuantely, I can't read the GeoCities page as its exceeded its limits right now.
Every single Mac Laptop I've had in the last 5 years has worked the exact same way. In the space that you insert the airport card is a little metal cover. Ya unscrew it, pull on the handle provided and lift it off. From there, ya have access to the internal memory -- the stuff they don't want you to upgrade yourself, but won't void your warentee if ya do and beside that, the hard drive.
From my music forums, I've helped a number of people upgrade their drives from the standard 48k RPM (iBook) and 56k RPM (the others) to faster drives...not one had any real problems getting at it.
But again, it sounds exactly like my machine...I haven't opened a G4 iBook yet, but I've heard they were the same as well.
You mean by flipping the latch on the keyboard, and pulling it back?
It takes 3 minutes to pull the hard drive out -- ya need a phillips head and an allen wrench set. Should be in every geek's toolbag anyways.
Not sure what the problem is. I told the guys from Apple when my screen burned out that I had confidential files and would not be sending the drive with it, and they didn't blink. I called on a Wednesday, got the package to send it out Thursday afternoon, and got my machine back the middle of next week.
"I think Apples product isnt necessarily the best, its just become a fashion accessory"
I'd tend to disagree. I ended up trying out a half dozen MP3 players a few years ago, and ended up giving in and picking up the much more expensive device. I was ready to find faults with it for being so damn expensive, but it just worked and it did it well.
Now, when I get a chance to see other MP3 players, I pick them up and give them a go. Sometimes I try to con manufacturers into one that I can review from a musicians POV (I run a small musicians website and am somewhat known in the industry...though no one seems to know for what, and I haven't figured it out either). Since then, I've gotten my hands on a few others that had promise, but didn't live up to my expectation of the iPod and I sent them back.
The iPod is a fashion statement -- it says I care enough to spend money on quality, and if it looks good in the fine italian leather strapped to my ass, thats just an added bonus.
Give them all a shot and don't look at the aestetics until you've tried them from a functional aspect. You'd see the iPod is great because it focuses solely on what it is supposed to be and nothing more.
The company would LIKE to use it without the students permission.
Technically, most universities require students to turn over rights to papers submitted as part of their school work. This can be then used for many other items. For instance, one of my works involves 'artificial intelligence' where the computer can rate essays. We take THOUSANDS of student works and we rate them. 6 raters look at the works and give several ratings to each paper, and we distill the ideas down to equations. The students papers are then destroyed...
In my case, every single student's paper we have used has been one that they gave approval for use in this project. We don't keep the actual papers in memory for any longer than it is required to build our model, and honestly, we are more interested in the raters work than the students. The students papers don't even remain in memory as anything but a part of an equation (well, actually something like 72 equations at this point) as a whole.
This stuff takes the papers and keeps them in memory. It keeps whole sentence structures and otherwise there to be rated against for plagerism. It can detect exact matches which indicate to me that they are storing copyrighted data.
But again, my university has deemed their involvement with this soft of stuff legitimate work and within the scope of ethics as we do not allow our papers to comingle with others. We do not share this work with others, and the actual databank for storing these resides on our site (along with an almost direct connect to the main servers elsewhere).
It meets the spirit of the law, as well as the actual letter of it. As I mentioned above, I was VERY pissed off about finding my previous work in there...the company did allow for its removal, although 'warning' me that if a student submitted work as being his own, while plagerizing mine once again, it would be listed once again in the database...
As a student, I don't mind giving limited usage of my copyright to the university. In some cases, I realize that I am going to have to assign copyright back to the university -- as is done in many computer science courses where students write code -- I've already gone though an ugly out of court battle with the university when an employee of mine had turned in work she was doing for me to a professor that tried to usurp rights to this...I paid the employee to do it, thus it was mine and she never had rights to reassign copyright that wasn't hers...but in general, I agree that work turned in is now property of the universities in a limited mannor...my advide to those that don't like this, don't turn in work that you think might be the basis of later works -- I won't, and neither should you (as a current employee, however, the work I produce there is OBVIOUSLY theres:-).
So what is this teaching students? Its teaching students that if you want to have an education at a decent price, you sign away a few rights. It also tells students that even though we CAN be dicks about the whole situation from a copyright standpoint, we look to the higher point of privacy (HIPPA is a bastard) and we protect these privacies as much as possible. It also teaches students, that in the real world, if given the chance, corporations are willing to do what ever they can to make money and that you should protect yourself from it.
I think its teaching students all great lessons. Not all lessons should be easy to learn, nor should we only focus on the positive end of things...
It probably is a copyright thing. I am on a few testing committees with my university, and these apps have come up quite a bit -- we are actually under contract for one and I've bitched and moaned about it. I turned in a journal article I had cowritten in, and it came back as plagerized...I had the guys look into it, and as I *RARELY* use my own name on journal articles (its a little hard to get published when folks find out that while you are a noted name in the field, you don't have a Ph.D...and ya actually dropped out of school before ya got your bachellors because a research project got in your way of actually dealing with the piddly shit...and 10 years later, you are still working on the same research with a team of people under ya).
Turns out, they had *MY* article in the database...my copyright was assigned to the journal for that publication only. I retained all other publication rights. I even had to sign a waiver to allow the article to be published electronically because at the time the journal didn't have a site, and the publisher wanted to show case some new ideas.
The plagerizing company had no legitimate right to the copyright, but it was in there system in some form (I don't even care if it was tokenized down to line noise...it is essentially my works) and I bitched some people out about it.
I've heard a few of my friends had the same reaction (well, at least their names were attached to the papers...must be nice to have degrees and shit:-)...and apparently my employeer has modified their agreement with the company they are using to where the papers submitted still belong to the university, and that they are licensed to use the papers solely for papers within the university. Nothing is to be stored elsewhere or used for any other purposes. We don't get it for free and we pay quite a bit so they were willing to work within these bounds...as a employee of the university, I'm satisfied with that...if I turn in a paper as a student, I don't see how the university can be held accountable for using it elsewhere as long as I'm given credit for the paper, but if they were used for BFE-University -- I'd be mighty pissed (err...once again).
So, if your university is doing this, make certain that your copyright stays within fair use only...adding your paper to the global database to help a corporation profit is NOT fairuse. Helping your university, the one you pay money to and support in various other ways, is -- IMHO -- fairusage.
New-er Interface. Still not the Brushed Metal we all hate.
It had previews of the new soundware attached to it, New 'Apple Loops' tech -- more Acid / Soundtrack Stuff, Sculpture -- a new Softsynth, UltraBeat -- a percussion softsynth, and the GitAmp.
Past that, its in an Alpha state and friends mentioned that it had crashed twice while they being shown the demo (probably why its not on the main floor:-). It, or its AudioUnits (the Sculpture / UB / GitAmp), need a LITTLE more work, but I've seen these things go from unstable to stable in less than a month, so I'm not worried.
So its not much...then again, Logic 5 to Logic 6 wasn't that much of an upgrade either. Incremental steps instead of a new revolution.
I run the largest logic forums on the net...if you are interested in this product past the stuff you will no doubt be reading here, check out Sonikmatter.com.
http://community.sonikmatter.com/cgi-bin/emagic/ ul timatebb.cgi
Lots of good information from the guys at Emagic as well as a few guys from Apple (not that many say who they are lest they are harrassed by the users there:-)
Check it out when ya get a chance...
BTW -- these aren't new products by ANY means, just a repricing / consolidation of the apps, and a rebundling of Logic 6 Platnium w/all the plugins built in (for Logic Pro).
Err...if its 4 standard drives with a Firewire connection, what would you need a Linux driver for? Just make certain that your distro can read from firewire and mount 'er up.
Actually, there was an article a few days back where M$ said they were going to release tools to help folks move away from Linux environments as a way to bring their wayward sheep back into the fold.
Nothing of a change of heart...its another salvo against Linux from M$ and nothing else.
Personally, I run the GNUTools (along with PHP and Apache -- when I don't have to deal with ASP scripts I can't get away with) on my Windows boxes...actually translating some Linux stuff right now to Windows using these very tools -- I'd keep it all in Linux, but I'm programming against a third party app that the university has licensed which only works under Wind'rs and my old scripts HAVE to communicate with this one:(
The great thing about using GNUTools and PHP and otherwise is they are platform Neutral...it doesn't matter what you program them on, they just work (err...kinda...other than funky OS stuff that needs tweaked a little).
Again, nothing nice from Windows, and if I recall correctly, these tools are actually licensed from SCO, so I'd rather not use them either way...I'll stick with the stuff from the good guys...
I found one that said Rolexxx -- ended up sitting there for a half hour arguing with the guy that since it was a fake he should sell it to me for $5...or I would continue to ruin sales (which I did as folks came by)...I got it for $7.50 (which is what the guy claimed he paid for it) to get me out of there:-)
I'll be sad the day I stop in NYC and find out the patriot act or whatever has taken these guys off the streets...*EVERYONE* knows they are fakes...a least the ones with half a brain in their head, but you gotta admit, for even $20, they make the best cheap watches you'll ever find. I'd pick one of these up over anything I could find at the local discount retailers...the fact that they blatently try to rip off the names of high society jewlery is just an added bonus.
I gave one of these as a Christmas present to a friend and TOLD him it was a fake...he claims it was one of the best gifts he'd gotten that year and enjoys it for the subversiveness of it...
I *KNOW* who I'm going to vote for or not vote for before I walk into the vote.
I cast a ballot every single election...as a citizen, it is ones duty to at least show up. As someone that wants politicians I can trust, I won't vote for 'the lesser of two evils'. Past a certain point, no one is going to get my vote.
Nothing ambigious or no snapped judgements...I don't vote for folks that are ideally against my principles. If you read the article that this was all attached to, they claimed that the only folks on the ballot were die hard republicans. It was noted that some die hard leftivists will never vote for republicans with or without a gun put to their head. Sounds perfectly legitimate to me. They did their patriotic duty by voting, and they did their civic duty by not giving either of these guys a vote.
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Gates never saw the Xerox interface. Jobs did.
Jobs bought the interface off of Xerox and Xerox invested heavily into Apple at the time.
The first GUI for mac looked NOTHING like the Xerox one other than it used a mouse and graphical elements. Some of the Mac / Lisa guys were already working on graphical elements and a folder hierachy that became the basis of the Mac. Add to that the common elements and it was a completely new interface.
The first few iterations of Windows were lame attempts to copy what Apple had licensed and were now legal owners of, as well as everything else.
Mac wasn't inspired by Xerox, but influenced by it. Windows as directly ripped from the Mac to the point its engineers decided to do things like throw menus in different locations and button positions in highly odd locations simply to prove it wasn't.
I agree with you in your disagreement :-)
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:-) Check out my site -- its mostly music tech stuff, but there are a lot of 24/7 musicians there and they can offer suggestions as well...
Seriously, I've stuck it out in my Research / IT position for years and I've had a few gigs pop up that I've kicked myself for not taking...only to be vindicated later.
Anymore, I stick with Music Tech instead of actually playing, and just recently I was offered a music tech position with the opportunity to play as 'understudy' (not really sure what they call them in rawk) for a well known artist (multiple grammies...all that) for a 9 Month gig, including 2 months overseas. I had to turn it down -- even though it roughly paid 3x what I would at my university job because the university is stable and I had things to think about like House Payments and Student Loans and other such items that would still be there when I got back, while a job wouldn't be...and face it, regardless of how much you get paid, while on the road you are going to go nutty with the $$$.
As it stands, I do maybe one or two shows a month at most if friends are touring in the Midwest (anywhere within 7 hours driving from Indianapolis -- unless they want to fly me out for the weekend, which happens occasionally). Its not the rawkstar life, but then again, its fun (and actually pays a bit more than the average job). As ya say Mike, all the IT things listed ARE things the bands need and really have few folks that can do this...this is one of the reasons I've hooked up with so many acts as they need folks that can do this -- and at the same time not act like ignorant fanboys
So yeah, my side business is an IT company that provides services to musicians. Its been there for a few causes over the years as well where we could do some good -- just last year, we put on a charity benefit with a *HUGE* soul artist and raised a quarter million dollars for breast cancer research (and convinced the artists to do the show for free). Not bad for a midwest show in the middle of someones horse ranch
So yeah, do the music stuff, just don't get suckered into giving everything up. As I've mentioned, I have been vindicated in the past for not taking some 'sure thing' gigs -- year long world tours that are canceled a month into the gig with folks still asking for the pay for services already rendered -- let alone lost wages. I've seen that happen more than once. All I can say is if you go against this advice, find a *GOOD* industry lawyer that isn't connected to the bigger acts or that acts label...they WILL do whats necessary to protect their bigger investment and industry lawyers are known for not respecting bounds of conflicts. Make sure the contract is airtight and its not as if you can't get it ammended. I've had a few that were unnegotiable, and the $200 I spent to the laywer to make 3 or 4 changes is generally well worth the money (just look at him as if he were your manager -- without the 10% -- though from past experience, it ends up being about that much anyways).
Anywho...back to my day job that I love dearly
"Adding a handle is not going to make ANYONE more likely to carry it around nevermind ladies"
I don't know.
My G4 has a handle (actually 4) and I've only moved it a few times in the last few years. *BUT* the few times I've had to move it, its been much nicer to grab and carry with my one good hand (I've got rhumatory arthritus in my dominant hand) and it wasn't a problem. My PC, on the other hand, is about the same size and to pick it up is a two handed exercise, with having to shift back and forth to open doors and otherwise.
But of course, thats manly to struggle with something, ain't it. And its manly to have big pieces of equipment that has no aestetic flair. I could care less about the looks, but its nice when folks come into my studio and see it as it is almost proof that I am an artist -- at least to the folks that don't know me any better -- and feel if I'm willing to buy something that looks good in my office, I'm more than likely going to give them something back that has a little more style than the guy down the road...then again, in my day job -- they don't give a fuck about that and just want my program on their desk by 9AM tommorow morning. Different markets.
As for 1000 options to import data, you might be right, but using my digital camera as well as several bluetooth products, its also nice that I can just drop the card into the sucker, it pulls up the photo and prints a nice proof without having to deal with the computer. If I had a camera phone, which I still think is an abomination (ever try to find a bluetooth phone without one...I was happy to find the T608 didn't have one), and used it, I think it would be great just to press the phones menu and get the stuff out without going through 5 extra steps.
IMHO, that is KISS. Keeping it simple means different things to different people. The device might be complex, but the end user doesn't have to think about how to get data into it because there are a dozen routes that all work the same because technically, all the device wasn't is the data and the extra conduits do not add up to any more complexity internally.
That was the same reason I served on my jury a few years back. My boss got pinged for jury duty the exact same day (we could have been on the same case, but his was another township :-)
He came back the next day bragging about getting out of duty, while I spent the rest of the afternoon listening to a case that ended up being dismissed about 12 hours later. If it would have gone for a few more days, I wouldn't have minded.
There are too many ignorant folks on juries...then again, the jury I was on was entirely professionals that all seemed to feel the same way about not getting out of the duty.
Personally, I don't think one should be considered a citizen if they feel that jury duty is a moronic option. There are several ways to support your gov't, out of them, serving on a jury is probably the easiest to do. if ya don't want to serve jury duty, then you should loose a few rights...maybe at the least the right to vote. If you are too important to deal with people one on one and help out the democratic system, you shouldn't be able to work with the more important aspects of it...
Unfortunately, piracy fucks everyone over.
Why did Cubase get sold for dirt cheep to a company that doesn't even understand DAWs (and rumor has it, more than half of the selling price went DIRECTLY to paying the debt of the company...the new company didn't assume any of this).
Piracy is the assholes way of doing anything. If you want something that costs, pay for it. If you don't want to pay the costs that they want you to, don't use it. Audacity is something I've actually installed at a clients place in the past because he wanted me to give him a copy of Cakewake (the guy is willing to pay my $75 an hour, but not willing to buy a $300 software -- one that would EASILY be made up in the cost of dealing with crack and hack issues that always come up with pirated apps).
The thing folks don't understand about the music industry is that that guys that are making money at this stuff do not pay for it. Its used as advertisement in exchange for endorsements. I haven't paid for software in YEARS, yet everything is legit. Then again, I know enough bigger guys and can convert them to different softwares that they see my getting the software as a plus.
The hobbiest is the market each and every one of these music companies are targetting. They want (fuck, I can't even think of why the kiddies listen to these days...I work with old farts that might not sell a billion albums, but consistantly put out decent albums that sell midrange...they are the insurance acts of the industry). They want ******* to say they used some software so every f'n kiddie in the world wants to use it and buys a legitimate copy. They want everyone to know they use Martin Guitars or Zildian cymbals or Yamaha synths or whatever, when the average person would be fine with a Soundblaster (yech) and a pawn shopped $50 instrument.
So, you do a diservice by pirating any of this shit...you do a disservice to the whole community by pirating it. Do yourself a favor and check out the free softwares because they will do 90% of what the end user wants and needs and if they need that extra 10% -- then a grand is NOT a lot of money for that software.
Don't fuck over the software companies just because they aren't offering something you can't steal. Would you claim that theft keeps down the prices on guitars for hobbiests? If so, you are a dumbass. Just because its bits and bytes on magnetic media doesn't make it any less theft. I wish we would stop calling this stuff piracy and start calling it outright theivery.
Time to download the lastest Audacity and see what it has...
You mean if you want to try a really buggy version of the application instead of one that just couldn't save, you can find the cracked version on the PC and never have to buy the real thing which you never planned on in the first place?
Past that, the VSTs that aren't released on the Mac are generally kiddie VSTs that while interesting are full of aliasing and otherwise. Lots of common mistakes programmed by folks that don't have a clue about DSP programming, but found that they can use Delphi to hack something together that halfway does what they want. Lots of interesting stuff...very few useful stuff. There is as much *PROFESSIONAL* software on the Mac as on the PC and its far better quality, IMHO. I haven't found a VST yet that was on the PC that I couldn't find AND needed on the Mac -- and some of the interesting stuff that was actually crappy from an audio perspective was far easier to emulate under Reaktor than it would have been to try to program the app in the first place. Reaktor on the Mac has some problems, but nothing one couldn't work around.
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Designers don't want them customizable. Being about to tweak every fucking thing on their computer is infact the OPPOSITE of what they want.
They want a computer that works right, is logical to their way of thinking, and is consistant.
Out of all the machines, the Mac OSs of the day have always been more uniform and perfect around the edges than anything else.
Seriously, this is the problem with Linux users -- they think users want more choices. They don't want more, they want the right choices.
I will say this -- I design Windows Applications for a living. A lot of my clients claim they love my apps because it does exactly what they need. I generally think in terms of Mac users when I do this. No extra features just because it can be built into it. At home, I use both Mac and Linux. Yeah -- I have a PC as well to take care of my office needs, but the G4 and powerbook CAN do most of it. The G4 is for my creative business -- I do music technology consulting. Its the PERFECT OS for the creative end...if you don't understand this, you aren't one that truely focuses solely on the creative end. Some of these folks would rather not think about the computer as anything but a pallete and never have to go into mechanic mode -- which honestly, I do more in the PC than I ever do in Linux.
When I really need something to work towards the geek end of things for myself, I pull up Linux -- but with OSX, I'm slowly abandoning this platform for anything but server activities. The only reason in my mind other than religious reasons not to go with Mac is that you can't afford it...in which case, a Linux box is perfect.
So no, Graphic Designers don't go nutty about things like brushed metal...the only folks I hear about the lack of customization are generally geeks. They think that by changing a theme on a windows manager it means they are truely creative...I'm sorry that doesn't get the bills paid.
Most places big enough to have an Apple Store also have a Guitar Center or a Sam Ash -- one of the HUGE music superstores that has about one of everything, and a selection of staff that can't even be bothered to learn about a single item in the store.
Check them out...probably cheaper than Apple too...
Have you ever thought about getting a Mac? It might reduce your need to comment on the mantra.
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We might even indoctrinate you into creating your own
Having said that, I've had nothing but troubles getting my Outlook adresses and numbers exported through bluetooth. I ended up having to export the CVS, running a script on the file as its generally messy, and transfering it to my Mac. I never used the AddressBook until that. Why would I? I have it on my PC, and generally I can just remote desktop into any of my PCs if I need to get this info when I'm not near one of them.
I would have rather used the PC's native tongue and transfered that way, but everything I've used sucks. iSync worked perfectly the first time...I was trying to go through the BS of getting it set up once I get the addresses imported and accidently hit Sync...and it did it. Without the 15 minutes of config time I would have had to do otherwise.
Since then, I've found a script that pretty much did what mine did, but is a *LOT* more polished and imports the Exchange CVS directly into AddressBook.
Get a Mac and use it...you won't be disapointed (I have 2 Macs, 2 Linux boxes, a PC and a work PC...I use whatever anyone throws at me).
Manditory DNA testing is invasive. You own your body cells, so even if its just discarded material found on your tooth brush or fingernail clippings, its invasive.
:-) Along the same lines, if its in the street, I shouldn't be allowed to get arrested for pointing a light at something. Civil liberties goes both ways...
Fingerprinting requires that you be detained -- in effect under arrest. Without a crime, it is considered in most of the world false imprisonment (if not legally, morally).
So, self-incrimination??? I don't get it. If you cut yourself while axing someone, do you get to complain that the blood found is self-incriminating. Bullshit.
Survlance in a public street is and should be legitimate. The minute they start pointing their cameras into my home -- using infrared or other privacy invading technologies, I might get upset. The fact that someone can see you as you walk down the streets is fine with me. I get annoyed when cops follow me -- that is a threatening physical form of intimidation, but cameras? Either you are an idiot or a criminal, or a combination of both if you think this effects you in any way.
Having said that, I still enjoy f'ing with these things with my laser pointer
You aren't giving large corporations a free gift. You are giving EVERYONE a free gift.
/. you hear on average about once a month some OSS developer going nutty because someone takes a GPL'd product and deciding to do something with it that they didn't want. What was it last? Some company was making a hardware firewall, the creator of the software put GPL'd software out, the company used it pretty much intact and put back the minor changes as required by the GPL, but didn't plaster this guys name all over the site and he decided to close the project.
Think about it like having a child. If someone said they'd have a child only if they could control this child for the rest of their lives and enforce decisions on it, you'd think that person was pretty f'd up.
Not all of us think of it as being ripped off if someone takes something we've put out there and uses it and ends up making a buck off of it. On
We've heard this over the FINK software on the Mac...the programmer does all the work, and someone puts up the compiled versions of these apps (along with the source) and he threatens to quit because they are making money and his name is no where to be found except in the licensing agreements.
Thats just damn immature.
I'm not saying all GPL programmers are immature, or even a majority of them are. What I'm saying is that it takes a different mindset to say that someone will put out software, give away the source and let you do as you please without further restrictions.
The arguements for GPL are that you can learn from others. You can still learn from BSD...a good majority of those that use this software contribute back. Not everyone, but most. The biggest company backing BSD is Apple -- they sell more machines with a BSD backing than anyone (well, ignoring the network stack from Win2k+), yet they have no problem resubmitting code to the core programmers.
Its this licensing that made Apple the biggest unix vendor in the world (measured in workstations and servers). If the biggest vendor can do this and contribute, I don't see the problem (other than folks complain the Aqua layers aren't OS).
So, the fact that you are not obligated to do anything is the plus. Those that respect the software WILL contribute. And having a requirement to contribute doesn't leave GPL'd software any safer. Quite a few installers and configuration apps and helper programs are closed source and interact readily with these apps almost as closely as if the app were LGPL'd.
Again, its all about choice to me. Not a religion to me -- I'm just enjoying the arguement. I use as much GPL'd software as I do BSD'd and standard copyrightted stuff like M$ Office. I just know which one I respect more.
Hardly,
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My arguments are more of an athiest (more so than an agnostic)...my arguments say make up your own mind as to what you want to do than to say you will follow these commandments (as put forward by both standard licensings schemes as well as OSS GPL). It allows you do to what you want with it.
Its about choice. Religion says you are either for a particular god or you are for their specific satan. Bushie says you are either with us or you are for the terrorists. Etc...
Its not forcing a mandate down your throat. Its telling you that you can choose either.
I don't know where all the idiots get off telling me that choice is a bad thing. I like GPL for a lot of reasons...most of them having to do with the fact I can force others into not making a proffit off my work (at least not without releveling the playing field and giving me back the changes). I like standard copyright because it protects my works from folks forcing me to give away the source. I love BSD because it says fuck this shit...do what they fuck you want to do, I don't care.
It depends on what you want or need at the time. Those of us that are a little more open know this. I am a software developer by trade. I've released applications in all of these (as well as straight public domain). Each one has a specific reason as to why I released it that way...mostly to protect *MY* interests. If it happens to be something that benefits my customers, I'm happy for that as well (though I generally only OS software that I do not want to support any more...let someone else read though and edit the software...unlike most OS programmers, at least I know how to comment
A religion tries to force itself down your throat. If you don't believe in it, you are wrong.
BSD doesn't force any of this. Its practically public domain, but asking that you respect the fact someone else programmed the stuff and display their contribution if prompted. Its more like a faith than a religion. Big difference.
Ya know that if you had gone by what your friend wanted and installed FreeBSD, you would have been installing an OS instead of a religion.
Of course, M$ and Apple are also religions along with Linux, but the BSD license is about the only one thats says We Don't Need Your Fucking Ideals Push On Us Or Anyone Else.
BSD is free in all senses of the word...the only thing these guys ask for is for the credit given back to them (and I think the latest BSD license even took out the 'advertising' clause because whiny GPL Founders complained that this isn't fair -- they want to use the license, but only want to advertise their religion instead of the folks that designed the software (ok, that part was a bit flamebait). BSD doesn't care what you do with the software. Embed it into a commercial app. Cool. Take the software, make no edits, and release it under a religious type licensing. Their programmers don't get all bitchy when someone takes their work and makes a product with it and gets rich while they are left holding a donation hat.
WHY? Because they do this for the greater good. GPL is explicitly there for the eventual removal of copyright -- that might be good, it might not be. There are arguments on both sides. Personally, I don't want my copyrights to be removed simply because I used a piece of open source I found on the net that saved me 10 weeks of programming.
BSD developers don't get into the debate as to whats right or wrong about copyright -- they simply say that this particular piece of software is free to do what they want.
So, deciding on whether you like GPL (Linux) over BSD comes down to personal preference and your zealoustry.
Having said that, I *LOVE* Max OSX and I don't think it would have come out if it was simply Linux with the Aqua Interface as opposed to BSD with the same.
On the non-Mac side, I prefer a certain Linux distro because thats what I'm use to these days (after getting off a commercial release several years back).
So, either decide with your heart (Religion vs. Agnostic) or by the Distro (FreeBSD vs. Debian). There is no wrong choice other than forcing your choice onto others.
Sounds exactly like mine...unfortuantely, I can't read the GeoCities page as its exceeded its limits right now.
Every single Mac Laptop I've had in the last 5 years has worked the exact same way. In the space that you insert the airport card is a little metal cover. Ya unscrew it, pull on the handle provided and lift it off. From there, ya have access to the internal memory -- the stuff they don't want you to upgrade yourself, but won't void your warentee if ya do and beside that, the hard drive.
From my music forums, I've helped a number of people upgrade their drives from the standard 48k RPM (iBook) and 56k RPM (the others) to faster drives...not one had any real problems getting at it.
But again, it sounds exactly like my machine...I haven't opened a G4 iBook yet, but I've heard they were the same as well.
You mean by flipping the latch on the keyboard, and pulling it back?
It takes 3 minutes to pull the hard drive out -- ya need a phillips head and an allen wrench set. Should be in every geek's toolbag anyways.
Not sure what the problem is. I told the guys from Apple when my screen burned out that I had confidential files and would not be sending the drive with it, and they didn't blink. I called on a Wednesday, got the package to send it out Thursday afternoon, and got my machine back the middle of next week.
Again, not sure what they problem is here...
"I think Apples product isnt necessarily the best, its just become a fashion accessory"
I'd tend to disagree. I ended up trying out a half dozen MP3 players a few years ago, and ended up giving in and picking up the much more expensive device. I was ready to find faults with it for being so damn expensive, but it just worked and it did it well.
Now, when I get a chance to see other MP3 players, I pick them up and give them a go. Sometimes I try to con manufacturers into one that I can review from a musicians POV (I run a small musicians website and am somewhat known in the industry...though no one seems to know for what, and I haven't figured it out either). Since then, I've gotten my hands on a few others that had promise, but didn't live up to my expectation of the iPod and I sent them back.
The iPod is a fashion statement -- it says I care enough to spend money on quality, and if it looks good in the fine italian leather strapped to my ass, thats just an added bonus.
Give them all a shot and don't look at the aestetics until you've tried them from a functional aspect. You'd see the iPod is great because it focuses solely on what it is supposed to be and nothing more.
The company would LIKE to use it without the students permission.
:-).
Technically, most universities require students to turn over rights to papers submitted as part of their school work. This can be then used for many other items. For instance, one of my works involves 'artificial intelligence' where the computer can rate essays. We take THOUSANDS of student works and we rate them. 6 raters look at the works and give several ratings to each paper, and we distill the ideas down to equations. The students papers are then destroyed...
In my case, every single student's paper we have used has been one that they gave approval for use in this project. We don't keep the actual papers in memory for any longer than it is required to build our model, and honestly, we are more interested in the raters work than the students. The students papers don't even remain in memory as anything but a part of an equation (well, actually something like 72 equations at this point) as a whole.
This stuff takes the papers and keeps them in memory. It keeps whole sentence structures and otherwise there to be rated against for plagerism. It can detect exact matches which indicate to me that they are storing copyrighted data.
But again, my university has deemed their involvement with this soft of stuff legitimate work and within the scope of ethics as we do not allow our papers to comingle with others. We do not share this work with others, and the actual databank for storing these resides on our site (along with an almost direct connect to the main servers elsewhere).
It meets the spirit of the law, as well as the actual letter of it. As I mentioned above, I was VERY pissed off about finding my previous work in there...the company did allow for its removal, although 'warning' me that if a student submitted work as being his own, while plagerizing mine once again, it would be listed once again in the database...
As a student, I don't mind giving limited usage of my copyright to the university. In some cases, I realize that I am going to have to assign copyright back to the university -- as is done in many computer science courses where students write code -- I've already gone though an ugly out of court battle with the university when an employee of mine had turned in work she was doing for me to a professor that tried to usurp rights to this...I paid the employee to do it, thus it was mine and she never had rights to reassign copyright that wasn't hers...but in general, I agree that work turned in is now property of the universities in a limited mannor...my advide to those that don't like this, don't turn in work that you think might be the basis of later works -- I won't, and neither should you (as a current employee, however, the work I produce there is OBVIOUSLY theres
So what is this teaching students? Its teaching students that if you want to have an education at a decent price, you sign away a few rights. It also tells students that even though we CAN be dicks about the whole situation from a copyright standpoint, we look to the higher point of privacy (HIPPA is a bastard) and we protect these privacies as much as possible. It also teaches students, that in the real world, if given the chance, corporations are willing to do what ever they can to make money and that you should protect yourself from it.
I think its teaching students all great lessons. Not all lessons should be easy to learn, nor should we only focus on the positive end of things...
It probably is a copyright thing. I am on a few testing committees with my university, and these apps have come up quite a bit -- we are actually under contract for one and I've bitched and moaned about it. I turned in a journal article I had cowritten in, and it came back as plagerized...I had the guys look into it, and as I *RARELY* use my own name on journal articles (its a little hard to get published when folks find out that while you are a noted name in the field, you don't have a Ph.D...and ya actually dropped out of school before ya got your bachellors because a research project got in your way of actually dealing with the piddly shit...and 10 years later, you are still working on the same research with a team of people under ya).
:-)...and apparently my employeer has modified their agreement with the company they are using to where the papers submitted still belong to the university, and that they are licensed to use the papers solely for papers within the university. Nothing is to be stored elsewhere or used for any other purposes. We don't get it for free and we pay quite a bit so they were willing to work within these bounds...as a employee of the university, I'm satisfied with that...if I turn in a paper as a student, I don't see how the university can be held accountable for using it elsewhere as long as I'm given credit for the paper, but if they were used for BFE-University -- I'd be mighty pissed (err...once again).
Turns out, they had *MY* article in the database...my copyright was assigned to the journal for that publication only. I retained all other publication rights. I even had to sign a waiver to allow the article to be published electronically because at the time the journal didn't have a site, and the publisher wanted to show case some new ideas.
The plagerizing company had no legitimate right to the copyright, but it was in there system in some form (I don't even care if it was tokenized down to line noise...it is essentially my works) and I bitched some people out about it.
I've heard a few of my friends had the same reaction (well, at least their names were attached to the papers...must be nice to have degrees and shit
So, if your university is doing this, make certain that your copyright stays within fair use only...adding your paper to the global database to help a corporation profit is NOT fairuse. Helping your university, the one you pay money to and support in various other ways, is -- IMHO -- fairusage.
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New-er Interface. Still not the Brushed Metal we all hate.
:-). It, or its AudioUnits (the Sculpture / UB / GitAmp), need a LITTLE more work, but I've seen these things go from unstable to stable in less than a month, so I'm not worried.
It had previews of the new soundware attached to it, New 'Apple Loops' tech -- more Acid / Soundtrack Stuff, Sculpture -- a new Softsynth, UltraBeat -- a percussion softsynth, and the GitAmp.
Past that, its in an Alpha state and friends mentioned that it had crashed twice while they being shown the demo (probably why its not on the main floor
So its not much...then again, Logic 5 to Logic 6 wasn't that much of an upgrade either. Incremental steps instead of a new revolution.
I run the largest logic forums on the net...if you are interested in this product past the stuff you will no doubt be reading here, check out Sonikmatter.com.
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http://community.sonikmatter.com/cgi-bin/emagic
Lots of good information from the guys at Emagic as well as a few guys from Apple (not that many say who they are lest they are harrassed by the users there
Check it out when ya get a chance...
BTW -- these aren't new products by ANY means, just a repricing / consolidation of the apps, and a rebundling of Logic 6 Platnium w/all the plugins built in (for Logic Pro).
Clif
Sonikmatter: Mind + Music + Technology
Err...if its 4 standard drives with a Firewire connection, what would you need a Linux driver for? Just make certain that your distro can read from firewire and mount 'er up.
Actually, there was an article a few days back where M$ said they were going to release tools to help folks move away from Linux environments as a way to bring their wayward sheep back into the fold.
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Nothing of a change of heart...its another salvo against Linux from M$ and nothing else.
Personally, I run the GNUTools (along with PHP and Apache -- when I don't have to deal with ASP scripts I can't get away with) on my Windows boxes...actually translating some Linux stuff right now to Windows using these very tools -- I'd keep it all in Linux, but I'm programming against a third party app that the university has licensed which only works under Wind'rs and my old scripts HAVE to communicate with this one
The great thing about using GNUTools and PHP and otherwise is they are platform Neutral...it doesn't matter what you program them on, they just work (err...kinda...other than funky OS stuff that needs tweaked a little).
Again, nothing nice from Windows, and if I recall correctly, these tools are actually licensed from SCO, so I'd rather not use them either way...I'll stick with the stuff from the good guys...
I found one that said Rolexxx -- ended up sitting there for a half hour arguing with the guy that since it was a fake he should sell it to me for $5...or I would continue to ruin sales (which I did as folks came by)...I got it for $7.50 (which is what the guy claimed he paid for it) to get me out of there :-)
I'll be sad the day I stop in NYC and find out the patriot act or whatever has taken these guys off the streets...*EVERYONE* knows they are fakes...a least the ones with half a brain in their head, but you gotta admit, for even $20, they make the best cheap watches you'll ever find. I'd pick one of these up over anything I could find at the local discount retailers...the fact that they blatently try to rip off the names of high society jewlery is just an added bonus.
I gave one of these as a Christmas present to a friend and TOLD him it was a fake...he claims it was one of the best gifts he'd gotten that year and enjoys it for the subversiveness of it...
And maybe I didn't make myself clear,
I *KNOW* who I'm going to vote for or not vote for before I walk into the vote.
I cast a ballot every single election...as a citizen, it is ones duty to at least show up. As someone that wants politicians I can trust, I won't vote for 'the lesser of two evils'. Past a certain point, no one is going to get my vote.
Nothing ambigious or no snapped judgements...I don't vote for folks that are ideally against my principles. If you read the article that this was all attached to, they claimed that the only folks on the ballot were die hard republicans. It was noted that some die hard leftivists will never vote for republicans with or without a gun put to their head. Sounds perfectly legitimate to me. They did their patriotic duty by voting, and they did their civic duty by not giving either of these guys a vote.