I've found several apps that I've needed that won't work under Classic. Anything that needs low level access to the hardware won't work. This kills all my pro audio applications.
The killer for me was the inability to use Outlook on OSX. **IF** its the only thing running or you don't background it or any of a dozen other things don't happen, its a stable application. Want to pull up a browser while waiting for your 300 mostly spams messages to pull up and Outlook dies taking out OS9 with it. I could deal with the ProAudio stuff not working because I realized I needed to boot into 9 when I want to use this anyways, BUT not being able to get to Outlook was a killer. Nope, Entourage is NOT an option...apparently the next version will have Exchange connecton capibilities, but this version if worthless for it...
I LOVE Linux. All my servers save 1 ASP box run it now. Hell, most of the time, I'm SSH'd into one of them from the iBook. I have wireless set up in most of the places I'm working from (and yeah, security ain't the greatest from wireless, BUT thats why I run SSH and others).
After playing with X for a few months, I can safely say that my main unix desktop will be Mac for the time being. When Linux has gotten as far as Apple has done in just a few years, I'll use that. Right now, I use whatever doesn't suck the most.
Yup...its in full screen. I tried Rootless all of 10 minutes before I decided if I want to be using 'Linux Style' Applications, I was going to go all the way with it. I've been hesatant to install KDE or something like that as I don't want to slow anything else down more, so for the most part, no windows managers other than the base X...and have to pull things up with the command line.
Well, yeah. As its required, I consider it part of the package:)
Right now, I fully intend to try out the Quartz version when it gets here. BUT until XFree / XDarwin get up to speed, I gotta use whats usable. Hell, I'd even use Gimp over Photoshop if it wasn't so annoying (having to reposition windows every time one opens...would installing KDE fix that???) and slow, I'd not spent the $$$ I just did on the X version.
I have my iBook with M$ Office right here, and it feels far more responsive than my 2Ghz Dell right beside me.
On my G4, which I seldom use for word processing (I can't take it on the porch with me at home), OO is a LITTLE better, but not much. M$ Office, however, is a LOT nicer...though I think that has more to do with the huge screen:)
Am I the only one that has used Open Office and thinks it sucks and is WAY to slow? My main writting machine is an iBook 600 which should be fast enough to use any word processor without worrying about typing latency. Yeah, Linux and Slow Connections have honed my skill of not looking at the screen or the keys and focusing on other things, but when its local, its annoying.
I thought the idea of linux was Software That Doesn't Suck...at least once you remove the religious zealots from the mix. M$ Office is the one package from Microsoft that I would gladly recommend folks have. Open Office is a pale comparison to that...yeah, you can get things done but not as easily.
Yeah, but us wops have never cared what others have called us. Its never like we've been oppressed for very long...unlike the others. For the same reason, Honkey was never an offensive word to us whities (though at one point, my dad tells me, wops and whities were not considered the same...not that any of my family ever cares).
The fact of the matter is, the other words are hurtful to others and should be respected and used with care.
I have to throw my agreance here as well. Was the original poster just a damn moron that can't think past anything Linux to understand these things have been around forever?
I remember mid80s being a part of a CUG -- Commodore Users Group. This too was sponsored by a commercial entity -- one of the local computer stores. Hell, they didn't even mind other commercial entities as long as they paid their dues (it cost money to run the 2 phonelines for the BBS and the equipment that went with it...ahhh...the days with 9600 was something I wished for).
At the university I work, there are SEVERAL Windows users groups. There are a few Linux / BSD ones and a few other techie UGs. What the hell is the idea? Its peer based learning and nothing else...other than guys that can sit around and bitch and moan about the shit that pays them money -- heh! I program and support Wind'rs at work because it keeps me employeed...hell, just the maintenance alone would keep me employeed. At home, I use mainly Mac and Linux because I don't want to think about the crap. I encourage EVERYONE to use Windows as it gives us techies job security:-P
"What is so attractive about HyperCard that prevents people from using things like PowerPoint, or Director, or web-based solutions, or any other number of things?"
The simplicity of the whole thing.
Back even as few as 5 years ago, I was using Hypercard as a front end to some of my C(++) projects. Myst is a good example of this, it is a hypercard frontend with extensive C++ programming in the form of XTNS (extensions). I used this to create a good deal of student testing applications for betas of computer adaptive testing (lots of intensive code that was VERY slow in scripting...probably run in perl or something else these days with ease though).
Hypercard was one of the greatest programs I ever had the opportunity to use. Its far more than PowerPoint or Director. Its Powerpoint mixed with Director and then filtered through Access / MySQL / Whatever and then given an object oriented language that was very easy to use and understand even if you didn't have the manuals in front of ya.
To be honest, until I started doing everything on the web, I used Hypercard as the frontend to all my softwares. Even after the web became useful, I STILL used it for CGI programming with Webstar on the Mac until I taught myself Perl and a half dozen other 'web' languages I use currently. With a few tweaks to the software, this COULD have been a contender with CGI programming on the Mac, but it was just confusing enough that the paradigm that HC users were use to was broken.
Actually, no students pay very little for this stuff. Most of the money comes from grants and other subsudies. The university system is just another state sponsored R&D site.
Students don't and have never buttered the bread. I've learned this first hand experience as my position gets very little in the way of support lately because we've decided to turn our attention away from research and onto supporting students. In doing so, we've shot ourselves in the foot and can barely keep our budget in line now. Research is the lifeblood of the university. Without it, you'd be paying $1000 a credit hour (like most private institutions) instead of the $150 you do now.
Its a shame...I started employment at the university to stay closer to where I was going to school. If I didn't have the experience I do now, I'd probably be thinking the same thing you do. Its hypocritical, yes...but no different than having a bunch of idiots throwing a ball into a hoop and the school thinking it has anything to do with education.
Ummm....yer on it from the university. Yer touching it all the time. Not sure what the problem is? Can ya go down to the NOC and screw with the routers? No.
Its sad being on I2. I used 512k at home and it feels slow. I can't even tell you what 56k feels like these days because I give up after about 2 minutes and stay off line. At my Indianapolis office, connecting to other I2 sites is a breeze...I love being able to complain that it takes all of 3 minutes to download an ISO from California or otherwise. Try it sometime and you will realize how fast ya are...hell, or even set up a QuakeIII server and only allow low pings on it and you'll see how transparent it is.
As for the CAVE, find a project that can utilize it and submit it to the folks and they may let you play with it. You DON'T fund it...these are purchased through grants. Get a project that if grant worthy and you'd be suprised what the university allows ya to play with.
Clif Marsiglio IUPUI Testing Center
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"If I go up to a soda-machine owner and say, "This machine gives out free Cokes", then press a button and watch a Coke drop, should I expect to go to jail??"
Well, he didn't just pull up an iBook and yoink the network was free to access if I get what is being said.
This is more like putting saltwater down the coin dispenser of the coke machine and telling the owner it was insecure and anyone dumping a bucket of the stuff could clean the thing out.
I 'heard' this hack worked back with I was in college...but I would never be stupid enough to try it (and if I ever did, I'd never be stupid enough to admit to it).
Hmmm...I thought technically, they were only charging to use the Firewire name...but they aren't even doing that now.
At one point, the chip was like $5 and the licensing of the name was $1.25 a unit. So, $6.25 for a function that most companies charge an extra $200 for sounds entirely reasonable to me.
Fortunately, for Mac users extentions are generally names for what they do. Try to figure out what half the standard windows DLLs do just by looking at them. Yeah, its not too hard to open it up and get the info, but when you have a few hundred its not going to be easy.
As for conflict resolution, yeah, I've done that a few times. It was VERY few times and always based on some 3rd party extention that shouldn't have been there to begin with (generally from companies that were mainly Windows based and thus thought you needed to patch the system to run your gif viewer or something equally stupid).
In comparison, it was no where close to what I get with Windows.
Note: I am a Windows Programmer by trade...I use an New iBook, a Powerbook G3, a G4 Server, an Athlon XP1800 and a older Alpha workstation (linux). I've programmed on all of these except the Alpha...
Mac users can be retards and STILL use their damn computer if they want. They don't need to know about what dll does what or that one is conflicting with another package because a new piece of software REQUIRES an older one that is installed by default over the newer one. They don't need to know what.conf file editing their webserver is in, nor do they get looked down upon their peers when they decide to use something like Linuxconf (I've had linux users get snooty with me when I needed to make a quick and dirty change to a config but didn't want to go through the trouble of handediting 5 files, when a simple textbased GUI does it in 3 steps).
Mac users can afford to be computer illiterate. Don't try to show your intelligence by being able to know more commands than others because you only impress a small group of people. I personally have terminal open on my iBook 80% of the time, but I realize most mac users will never get that far...and it ain't a bad thing. They are focusing on how to improve themselves in their given profession instead of picking up an MCSE on the side (and anyone who's ever taken a damn MCSE will tell you how easy it is to get...I've passed the Networking and a few other exams with ease on the M$ side because you are FORCED to learn this crap...heh! Knowing Unix helped a bit, but so much is application specific and not knowledge / theory specific -- just glad my employeer pays for this 'training' as it looks good on a resume even if you have to hid these facts from other geeks).
Anywho, idiots users are good...I just wish I would be allowed to be an idiot user and forget everything I ever learned about computers.
Deck is a great program...I've been trying to pick up a copy of my own for a while. Deck is more than adequate as a replacement for ProTools than is Logic. Logic is a great application, but includes tons of stuff most musicians like yourself may not need. Heck, I use to run most of my audio through a 4 Track TAPE player for years before I decided to go completely computerized. For guitar and singing, its a perfectly good solution.
I personally am excited by all of this...I WANT to see an OSX version of Logic. I'll probably pick up Deck as well for the simple things, but I'm glad Mac users will have an application of their own that PC users don't. I'm a little irked that it means that all the folks that just bought up Logic 5.0 will be screwed (it just came out a few months ago) on the PC side, but us Mac users will get a little more out of it being focused solely on us.
BTW We run the semi-official Logic Forums over on Sonikmatter. If anyone is interested in this software take a look at either out main site at:
Hmmm...Probably not. This technique has been around for a while, but not really practical or smooth except with recent technologies. The Matrix trick was very unsophistocated in terms of electronics. Its just a few hundred cameras that are synched and can be switched from in a linear method giving the illusion of 1 single camera.
Several years ago, there was a product released on the Mac (and then simply disappearing) called Canomera. It took 2 camera positions and after you filled in a few details such as corners of buildings and all that stuff, it could interpolate between the 2 (or more) picts and allow this same sort of trick. If one had static cameras with these corner positions prelocated, it would be dead simple to create a realtime fly through with the same software base.
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Heh!
No confusion on my part. Even his 'serious' films haven't been what I call acting. This is not to say that I disliked these roles (and I've not see GWH...didn't know he was in that) its just that he played variations of his standard shtick. DPS was as far away as I'd seen him get and it was a good movie, but it was still Williams being Williams and not more more than that....Ohhhh He's a Lit Teacher Now! Ok, he's just Williams pretending to be a lit teacher...not much of a stretch...
This one seemed a little more than that...nothing of what we've come to expect from the man. Yes, we could probably say the same for Pachino...he is playing the same damn role that he always plays...but it works here the same way that it does when Williams plays the Geni or whatever else. I don't know if I wouldn't have the same expectations...if he played in a childrens movie as I would Williams in a grown up one (even the ones Williams does for us GrownUp Children).
Blah...its a good film...I'm glad I saw it a second time...
clif
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I've actually seen this twice. Had to see it the other night because my father wanted to see it for his birthday and drove 150 miles to my house and I didn't want to tell him that I'd seen it already. Doh!
When I saw this at first, I was convinced that Williams wasn't going to be the one to play this role. As a friend says, he plays the idiot manchild all too well. I watch it the first time with the belief that he CAN'T play a serious role without screwing it up and kept waiting for him to go into some Aladin style adlib crap. It ruined it a little because I kept waiting for it and it never happened. It was only after the movie was over that I realized he did well in the role.
Seeing the film a second time, and I'm not sure why films like this hide the spoiler...its not like I've seen any film in the mainstream theatres that I didn't know what the outcome would be just from the previews alone. Noting that, seeing it a second time didn't ruin the supprise of the movie. It instead allowed me to focus on the acting, which as was said earlier IS the draw for this movie. Knowing Williams wasn't going to head into the Idiot Manchild routine, I saw it in another light. He really was a good actor.
Without giving away too much of the 'plot', Williams plays a man that commits cold blooded murder in the heat of 'passion'. He is an everyman, a sort of a slashdot geek that just snapped. Subsistute a loner book author for loner computer geek and ya get the idea'r. He is rebuffed and laughed at and snaps. By the time he recovers, its done and has to do something about it. His role wasn't to be a creepy guy...it was supposed to be a misunderstood loner that wanted to be loved by someone and accepted by the general populace and fails at all of this. Not creepy except because of circumstances. Creepy in the way that the guy that wears the trenchcoat in the computer lab in the middle of a dry summer in the same means a child would bring his favorite blanket with him everywhere.
If you look at it in that sense, Williams is still a manchild, not fully socially developed and reacting badly to situations that don't go the way he expected it to go. He is a little pathetic but also a semisympathetic character and he plays his role well.
Yeah..it IS funnier than hell that the second comment got an insightful. Maybe more inciteful more than anything else:-) Oops is the Slashdot nose smily nazi going to mod me down for that.
As for the 4 digit one, I went by the name Gimpboy for a LONG TIME. When Gimp the graphics application came out, too many people thought I was fronting for that and others started with using very similar names, I asked Taco to change it to this one. Instead of changing the name, apparently he deleted the old UID and moved it to the new one. Now someone else has the Gimpboy name and I'm stuck with one more digit in my UID.
I SHOULD have eBay'd it...might have paid for lunch or something...
clif
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"I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country (think of the thousands, nay 10s of thousands of bands, every weekend, playing in bars all over this great land of ours not paying royalties) with bands, or a stack of CDs."
I know another poster responed with the legalities of this, but I just wanted to note that the RIAA DOES send out teams of folks to bars and otherwise to check this stuff out. They do a small sampling, and check for compliance. Many content holders do this...for instance, you ever wondr why there are always TVs in bars, but they NEVER have the sound on? Its because if they have the sound on they have to pay a performance license for public usage...if someone comes in and notes this was playing and the bar hasn't submitted the appropriate forms and fees, they get sued for quite a bit. I had a friend who's bar was sued for something similar. He had the sound on during some prize fight and was reported.
But yeah, they do have teams that watch for this stuff. Not teams of millions in every bar, but they do make their rounds.
clif
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Heh! I generally don't respond to my own posts like this, but it was funny that some fucking moron modded the parent to flamebait.
It just proves to me that most/.rs are just immature children, most of whom have never coded for a living nor understand that anyone needs to make a living. Its all gimme gimme gimme and the GPL helps out in that regard. You could give a fuck about sharing with others...if it weren't for the GPL, you'd be out pirating anyways.
If you want flamebait, this is it...not that I don't consider all of this true.
Ok, kiddies...I am giving you yet another post to mod down. I have PLENTY of karma and have been around here longer than most. Too bad I still don't have my old 4 digit UID.
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This is EXACTLY what one of the articles the other day was about. GPL is about religion...you GPL everything because GNU/Jeebus says to. BSD is about wanting your project to take life after you release it with no other restrictions than to let others know where it came from (I believe the BSD is the one that RMS hated because he didn't consider it free because it required copyright statements to be left in...though every damn GPL software has to have copyrights left in...but they refer to his religion...)
I've released software over the years that I had no more use out of...I sometimes release them GPL other time just say hell with it and put it into the public domain...no license, do what the hell ya want with it. BSD allows you to take something and GPL the results under a second license, so as a programmer, you could have easily forked it and set up your own GPL/BSD version of the software with your own team (though it sounds like Wine beat ya to the punch).
Some of us care only for getting software out...we don't care about if someone is proffiting off of it 'unfairly'. We care that someone is using it...
Yeah yeah with the [sic] stuff...I know I was typing with one hand and eating with the rest. Slashdot and misspelling go together...
As for the rest...of course they have a choice. Do you think these guys stuck a gun to their head? What is a musicians primary career path? Do they want to sell a lot of music? Do they want to be popular? Do they want to be artists that don't compromise? Do they measure their success within the charts?
Answer all of these questions and you may be able to see they do have a choice. If you want to see your name in the charts, you WILL need to sign on the dotted line as the Big 5 owns or controls a major portion of the reporting mechanisms that tell how popular an album is. Want to be in soundscan to get into billboard (I believe they are the ones that track those charts)....well, last I checked it was about $5000 the little barcode that goes on the back of the CD so that the stores that sell it will be able to track the numbers. Oh yeah, selling from your website won't get you in the charts even if you sold a million albums. Selling from little indy stores won't get you in the charts either as they are most likely not a part of the system.
So how do you choose how you want your career to go...as I mentioned, there ARE perks to going with the majors. There are also perks to doing it on your own. I have a friend that HAS to go to every concert and convention she can just to hawk her discs...she sells several thousand CDs a year and makes a decent living at it. One or two tours each year and the rest is managing a few other bands. Not getting rich by any standards, but making a living.
Again, these guys have choices...they sign because they think they are going to sell billions of albums and make lots of money. They aren't doing it for just a career as you can do that without their help.
I don't know...I rarely buy anything but independant labels and I know those guys aren't making anything from me buying when you factor in all their costs but I like those guys works far more than the crap I hear on the majors. Its all niche marketting assuring that they will never go far unless they 'sell out', but then again, they don't consider their success dependant on hearing their music in the charts month after month after month. Then again, I also don't fault the few friends I know that have decided that they want to be a commodity and sign on the dotted line. It all depends on what you want out of life.
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I've found several apps that I've needed that won't work under Classic. Anything that needs low level access to the hardware won't work. This kills all my pro audio applications.
The killer for me was the inability to use Outlook on OSX. **IF** its the only thing running or you don't background it or any of a dozen other things don't happen, its a stable application. Want to pull up a browser while waiting for your 300 mostly spams messages to pull up and Outlook dies taking out OS9 with it. I could deal with the ProAudio stuff not working because I realized I needed to boot into 9 when I want to use this anyways, BUT not being able to get to Outlook was a killer. Nope, Entourage is NOT an option...apparently the next version will have Exchange connecton capibilities, but this version if worthless for it...
Classic is not the answer...
clif
I LOVE Linux. All my servers save 1 ASP box run it now. Hell, most of the time, I'm SSH'd into one of them from the iBook. I have wireless set up in most of the places I'm working from (and yeah, security ain't the greatest from wireless, BUT thats why I run SSH and others).
After playing with X for a few months, I can safely say that my main unix desktop will be Mac for the time being. When Linux has gotten as far as Apple has done in just a few years, I'll use that. Right now, I use whatever doesn't suck the most.
clif
Yup...its in full screen. I tried Rootless all of 10 minutes before I decided if I want to be using 'Linux Style' Applications, I was going to go all the way with it. I've been hesatant to install KDE or something like that as I don't want to slow anything else down more, so for the most part, no windows managers other than the base X...and have to pull things up with the command line.
clif
Well, yeah. As its required, I consider it part of the package :)
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Right now, I fully intend to try out the Quartz version when it gets here. BUT until XFree / XDarwin get up to speed, I gotta use whats usable. Hell, I'd even use Gimp over Photoshop if it wasn't so annoying (having to reposition windows every time one opens...would installing KDE fix that???) and slow, I'd not spent the $$$ I just did on the X version.
Good point about Developers Prerelease
I have my iBook with M$ Office right here, and it feels far more responsive than my 2Ghz Dell right beside me.
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On my G4, which I seldom use for word processing (I can't take it on the porch with me at home), OO is a LITTLE better, but not much. M$ Office, however, is a LOT nicer...though I think that has more to do with the huge screen
clif
No...Classic will NEVER run these things. Too much low level access that X isn't going to give up.
Expect a fall release for Logic X. ProTools??? No clue.
Take a gander at sonikmatter.com and check out our Logic forums for more info.
clif
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Am I the only one that has used Open Office and thinks it sucks and is WAY to slow? My main writting machine is an iBook 600 which should be fast enough to use any word processor without worrying about typing latency. Yeah, Linux and Slow Connections have honed my skill of not looking at the screen or the keys and focusing on other things, but when its local, its annoying.
I thought the idea of linux was Software That Doesn't Suck...at least once you remove the religious zealots from the mix. M$ Office is the one package from Microsoft that I would gladly recommend folks have. Open Office is a pale comparison to that...yeah, you can get things done but not as easily.
clif
Yeah, but us wops have never cared what others have called us. Its never like we've been oppressed for very long...unlike the others. For the same reason, Honkey was never an offensive word to us whities (though at one point, my dad tells me, wops and whities were not considered the same...not that any of my family ever cares).
The fact of the matter is, the other words are hurtful to others and should be respected and used with care.
clif
I have to throw my agreance here as well. Was the original poster just a damn moron that can't think past anything Linux to understand these things have been around forever?
:-P
I remember mid80s being a part of a CUG -- Commodore Users Group. This too was sponsored by a commercial entity -- one of the local computer stores. Hell, they didn't even mind other commercial entities as long as they paid their dues (it cost money to run the 2 phonelines for the BBS and the equipment that went with it...ahhh...the days with 9600 was something I wished for).
At the university I work, there are SEVERAL Windows users groups. There are a few Linux / BSD ones and a few other techie UGs. What the hell is the idea? Its peer based learning and nothing else...other than guys that can sit around and bitch and moan about the shit that pays them money -- heh! I program and support Wind'rs at work because it keeps me employeed...hell, just the maintenance alone would keep me employeed. At home, I use mainly Mac and Linux because I don't want to think about the crap. I encourage EVERYONE to use Windows as it gives us techies job security
clif
"What is so attractive about HyperCard that prevents people from using things like PowerPoint, or Director, or web-based solutions, or any other number of things?"
The simplicity of the whole thing.
Back even as few as 5 years ago, I was using Hypercard as a front end to some of my C(++) projects. Myst is a good example of this, it is a hypercard frontend with extensive C++ programming in the form of XTNS (extensions). I used this to create a good deal of student testing applications for betas of computer adaptive testing (lots of intensive code that was VERY slow in scripting...probably run in perl or something else these days with ease though).
Hypercard was one of the greatest programs I ever had the opportunity to use. Its far more than PowerPoint or Director. Its Powerpoint mixed with Director and then filtered through Access / MySQL / Whatever and then given an object oriented language that was very easy to use and understand even if you didn't have the manuals in front of ya.
To be honest, until I started doing everything on the web, I used Hypercard as the frontend to all my softwares. Even after the web became useful, I STILL used it for CGI programming with Webstar on the Mac until I taught myself Perl and a half dozen other 'web' languages I use currently. With a few tweaks to the software, this COULD have been a contender with CGI programming on the Mac, but it was just confusing enough that the paradigm that HC users were use to was broken.
clif
Actually, no students pay very little for this stuff. Most of the money comes from grants and other subsudies. The university system is just another state sponsored R&D site.
Students don't and have never buttered the bread. I've learned this first hand experience as my position gets very little in the way of support lately because we've decided to turn our attention away from research and onto supporting students. In doing so, we've shot ourselves in the foot and can barely keep our budget in line now. Research is the lifeblood of the university. Without it, you'd be paying $1000 a credit hour (like most private institutions) instead of the $150 you do now.
Its a shame...I started employment at the university to stay closer to where I was going to school. If I didn't have the experience I do now, I'd probably be thinking the same thing you do. Its hypocritical, yes...but no different than having a bunch of idiots throwing a ball into a hoop and the school thinking it has anything to do with education.
Higher Ed is everything but Higher Ed.
Ummm....yer on it from the university. Yer touching it all the time. Not sure what the problem is? Can ya go down to the NOC and screw with the routers? No.
Its sad being on I2. I used 512k at home and it feels slow. I can't even tell you what 56k feels like these days because I give up after about 2 minutes and stay off line. At my Indianapolis office, connecting to other I2 sites is a breeze...I love being able to complain that it takes all of 3 minutes to download an ISO from California or otherwise. Try it sometime and you will realize how fast ya are...hell, or even set up a QuakeIII server and only allow low pings on it and you'll see how transparent it is.
As for the CAVE, find a project that can utilize it and submit it to the folks and they may let you play with it. You DON'T fund it...these are purchased through grants. Get a project that if grant worthy and you'd be suprised what the university allows ya to play with.
Clif Marsiglio
IUPUI Testing Center
"If I go up to a soda-machine owner and say, "This machine gives out free Cokes", then press a button and watch a Coke drop, should I expect to go to jail??"
Well, he didn't just pull up an iBook and yoink the network was free to access if I get what is being said.
This is more like putting saltwater down the coin dispenser of the coke machine and telling the owner it was insecure and anyone dumping a bucket of the stuff could clean the thing out.
I 'heard' this hack worked back with I was in college...but I would never be stupid enough to try it (and if I ever did, I'd never be stupid enough to admit to it).
Hmmm...I thought technically, they were only charging to use the Firewire name...but they aren't even doing that now.
At one point, the chip was like $5 and the licensing of the name was $1.25 a unit. So, $6.25 for a function that most companies charge an extra $200 for sounds entirely reasonable to me.
Fortunately, for Mac users extentions are generally names for what they do. Try to figure out what half the standard windows DLLs do just by looking at them. Yeah, its not too hard to open it up and get the info, but when you have a few hundred its not going to be easy.
As for conflict resolution, yeah, I've done that a few times. It was VERY few times and always based on some 3rd party extention that shouldn't have been there to begin with (generally from companies that were mainly Windows based and thus thought you needed to patch the system to run your gif viewer or something equally stupid).
In comparison, it was no where close to what I get with Windows.
Note: I am a Windows Programmer by trade...I use an New iBook, a Powerbook G3, a G4 Server, an Athlon XP1800 and a older Alpha workstation (linux). I've programmed on all of these except the Alpha...
Yup, thats the point.
.conf file editing their webserver is in, nor do they get looked down upon their peers when they decide to use something like Linuxconf (I've had linux users get snooty with me when I needed to make a quick and dirty change to a config but didn't want to go through the trouble of handediting 5 files, when a simple textbased GUI does it in 3 steps).
Mac users can be retards and STILL use their damn computer if they want. They don't need to know about what dll does what or that one is conflicting with another package because a new piece of software REQUIRES an older one that is installed by default over the newer one. They don't need to know what
Mac users can afford to be computer illiterate. Don't try to show your intelligence by being able to know more commands than others because you only impress a small group of people. I personally have terminal open on my iBook 80% of the time, but I realize most mac users will never get that far...and it ain't a bad thing. They are focusing on how to improve themselves in their given profession instead of picking up an MCSE on the side (and anyone who's ever taken a damn MCSE will tell you how easy it is to get...I've passed the Networking and a few other exams with ease on the M$ side because you are FORCED to learn this crap...heh! Knowing Unix helped a bit, but so much is application specific and not knowledge / theory specific -- just glad my employeer pays for this 'training' as it looks good on a resume even if you have to hid these facts from other geeks).
Anywho, idiots users are good...I just wish I would be allowed to be an idiot user and forget everything I ever learned about computers.
clif marsiglio
http://sonikmatter.com
Actually, Emagic DID write a simple 4 track (ok it was 8) -- http://www.tonos.com/app2/toolbox/tc8/jsp/index.js p.
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Deck is a great program...I've been trying to pick up a copy of my own for a while. Deck is more than adequate as a replacement for ProTools than is Logic. Logic is a great application, but includes tons of stuff most musicians like yourself may not need. Heck, I use to run most of my audio through a 4 Track TAPE player for years before I decided to go completely computerized. For guitar and singing, its a perfectly good solution.
I personally am excited by all of this...I WANT to see an OSX version of Logic. I'll probably pick up Deck as well for the simple things, but I'm glad Mac users will have an application of their own that PC users don't. I'm a little irked that it means that all the folks that just bought up Logic 5.0 will be screwed (it just came out a few months ago) on the PC side, but us Mac users will get a little more out of it being focused solely on us.
BTW We run the semi-official Logic Forums over on Sonikmatter. If anyone is interested in this software take a look at either out main site at:
http://sonikmatter.com
or the Logic area at
http://community.sonikmatter.com/cgi-bin/emagic/u
Thanks
Clif Marsiglio
Hmmm...Probably not. This technique has been around for a while, but not really practical or smooth except with recent technologies. The Matrix trick was very unsophistocated in terms of electronics. Its just a few hundred cameras that are synched and can be switched from in a linear method giving the illusion of 1 single camera.
Several years ago, there was a product released on the Mac (and then simply disappearing) called Canomera. It took 2 camera positions and after you filled in a few details such as corners of buildings and all that stuff, it could interpolate between the 2 (or more) picts and allow this same sort of trick. If one had static cameras with these corner positions prelocated, it would be dead simple to create a realtime fly through with the same software base.
clif
Heh!
No confusion on my part. Even his 'serious' films haven't been what I call acting. This is not to say that I disliked these roles (and I've not see GWH...didn't know he was in that) its just that he played variations of his standard shtick. DPS was as far away as I'd seen him get and it was a good movie, but it was still Williams being Williams and not more more than that....Ohhhh He's a Lit Teacher Now! Ok, he's just Williams pretending to be a lit teacher...not much of a stretch...
This one seemed a little more than that...nothing of what we've come to expect from the man. Yes, we could probably say the same for Pachino...he is playing the same damn role that he always plays...but it works here the same way that it does when Williams plays the Geni or whatever else. I don't know if I wouldn't have the same expectations...if he played in a childrens movie as I would Williams in a grown up one (even the ones Williams does for us GrownUp Children).
Blah...its a good film...I'm glad I saw it a second time...
clif
I've actually seen this twice. Had to see it the other night because my father wanted to see it for his birthday and drove 150 miles to my house and I didn't want to tell him that I'd seen it already. Doh!
When I saw this at first, I was convinced that Williams wasn't going to be the one to play this role. As a friend says, he plays the idiot manchild all too well. I watch it the first time with the belief that he CAN'T play a serious role without screwing it up and kept waiting for him to go into some Aladin style adlib crap. It ruined it a little because I kept waiting for it and it never happened. It was only after the movie was over that I realized he did well in the role.
Seeing the film a second time, and I'm not sure why films like this hide the spoiler...its not like I've seen any film in the mainstream theatres that I didn't know what the outcome would be just from the previews alone. Noting that, seeing it a second time didn't ruin the supprise of the movie. It instead allowed me to focus on the acting, which as was said earlier IS the draw for this movie. Knowing Williams wasn't going to head into the Idiot Manchild routine, I saw it in another light. He really was a good actor.
Without giving away too much of the 'plot', Williams plays a man that commits cold blooded murder in the heat of 'passion'. He is an everyman, a sort of a slashdot geek that just snapped. Subsistute a loner book author for loner computer geek and ya get the idea'r. He is rebuffed and laughed at and snaps. By the time he recovers, its done and has to do something about it. His role wasn't to be a creepy guy...it was supposed to be a misunderstood loner that wanted to be loved by someone and accepted by the general populace and fails at all of this. Not creepy except because of circumstances. Creepy in the way that the guy that wears the trenchcoat in the computer lab in the middle of a dry summer in the same means a child would bring his favorite blanket with him everywhere.
If you look at it in that sense, Williams is still a manchild, not fully socially developed and reacting badly to situations that don't go the way he expected it to go. He is a little pathetic but also a semisympathetic character and he plays his role well.
clif marsiglio
sonikmatter
Yeah..it IS funnier than hell that the second comment got an insightful. Maybe more inciteful more than anything else :-) Oops is the Slashdot nose smily nazi going to mod me down for that.
As for the 4 digit one, I went by the name Gimpboy for a LONG TIME. When Gimp the graphics application came out, too many people thought I was fronting for that and others started with using very similar names, I asked Taco to change it to this one. Instead of changing the name, apparently he deleted the old UID and moved it to the new one. Now someone else has the Gimpboy name and I'm stuck with one more digit in my UID.
I SHOULD have eBay'd it...might have paid for lunch or something...
clif
"I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country (think of the thousands, nay 10s of thousands of bands, every weekend, playing in bars all over this great land of ours not paying royalties) with bands, or a stack of CDs."
I know another poster responed with the legalities of this, but I just wanted to note that the RIAA DOES send out teams of folks to bars and otherwise to check this stuff out. They do a small sampling, and check for compliance. Many content holders do this...for instance, you ever wondr why there are always TVs in bars, but they NEVER have the sound on? Its because if they have the sound on they have to pay a performance license for public usage...if someone comes in and notes this was playing and the bar hasn't submitted the appropriate forms and fees, they get sued for quite a bit. I had a friend who's bar was sued for something similar. He had the sound on during some prize fight and was reported.
But yeah, they do have teams that watch for this stuff. Not teams of millions in every bar, but they do make their rounds.
clif
Heh! I generally don't respond to my own posts like this, but it was funny that some fucking moron modded the parent to flamebait.
/.rs are just immature children, most of whom have never coded for a living nor understand that anyone needs to make a living. Its all gimme gimme gimme and the GPL helps out in that regard. You could give a fuck about sharing with others...if it weren't for the GPL, you'd be out pirating anyways.
It just proves to me that most
If you want flamebait, this is it...not that I don't consider all of this true.
Ok, kiddies...I am giving you yet another post to mod down. I have PLENTY of karma and have been around here longer than most. Too bad I still don't have my old 4 digit UID.
This is EXACTLY what one of the articles the other day was about. GPL is about religion...you GPL everything because GNU/Jeebus says to. BSD is about wanting your project to take life after you release it with no other restrictions than to let others know where it came from (I believe the BSD is the one that RMS hated because he didn't consider it free because it required copyright statements to be left in...though every damn GPL software has to have copyrights left in...but they refer to his religion...)
I've released software over the years that I had no more use out of...I sometimes release them GPL other time just say hell with it and put it into the public domain...no license, do what the hell ya want with it. BSD allows you to take something and GPL the results under a second license, so as a programmer, you could have easily forked it and set up your own GPL/BSD version of the software with your own team (though it sounds like Wine beat ya to the punch).
Some of us care only for getting software out...we don't care about if someone is proffiting off of it 'unfairly'. We care that someone is using it...
clif
Yeah yeah with the [sic] stuff...I know I was typing with one hand and eating with the rest. Slashdot and misspelling go together...
As for the rest...of course they have a choice. Do you think these guys stuck a gun to their head? What is a musicians primary career path? Do they want to sell a lot of music? Do they want to be popular? Do they want to be artists that don't compromise? Do they measure their success within the charts?
Answer all of these questions and you may be able to see they do have a choice. If you want to see your name in the charts, you WILL need to sign on the dotted line as the Big 5 owns or controls a major portion of the reporting mechanisms that tell how popular an album is. Want to be in soundscan to get into billboard (I believe they are the ones that track those charts)....well, last I checked it was about $5000 the little barcode that goes on the back of the CD so that the stores that sell it will be able to track the numbers. Oh yeah, selling from your website won't get you in the charts even if you sold a million albums. Selling from little indy stores won't get you in the charts either as they are most likely not a part of the system.
So how do you choose how you want your career to go...as I mentioned, there ARE perks to going with the majors. There are also perks to doing it on your own. I have a friend that HAS to go to every concert and convention she can just to hawk her discs...she sells several thousand CDs a year and makes a decent living at it. One or two tours each year and the rest is managing a few other bands. Not getting rich by any standards, but making a living.
Again, these guys have choices...they sign because they think they are going to sell billions of albums and make lots of money. They aren't doing it for just a career as you can do that without their help.
I don't know...I rarely buy anything but independant labels and I know those guys aren't making anything from me buying when you factor in all their costs but I like those guys works far more than the crap I hear on the majors. Its all niche marketting assuring that they will never go far unless they 'sell out', but then again, they don't consider their success dependant on hearing their music in the charts month after month after month. Then again, I also don't fault the few friends I know that have decided that they want to be a commodity and sign on the dotted line. It all depends on what you want out of life.
clif marsiglio
cofounder sonikmatter.com