...is not to publish the individual notes themselves. Instead, just post the chord changes. Chord changes can NOT be copy-written or is there protection.
Nothing fancy. For instance, here is the chord changes for "Hey Joe". C-G-D-A-E......there, come arrest me.
That's the chord changes, then it's up to the musician to listen to how Jimi Hendrix did it inside of those chord changes when he made his cover of the song....which is actually better than to read a transcription anyway as if you figure it out for yourself, it will make you a better player.
Posting chord changes at least points you in the right direction.
no pleasing some people. If they offered it at the same price, they'd still complain that not ALL the music on iTunes is DRM free. Once they do that, then they'd complain about the.99 cents saying it's too much.
If Apple gave away the music for free in FLAC or Apple Lossless people would STILL complain ("these files are too big...etc etc").
Again, no pleasing some people. Even though you could buy the full album at the higher bitrate AND it being DRM free AND it's still cheaper than buying the physical CD. pfft....
Meh...Apple is the underdog in the computer world. It probably always will be. Despite the hype, the commercials, the fanbois....it's an underdog. So ANY marketshare gain is news really. The fact that sales are increasing in a world dominated by Windows is kinda cool.
As much as I like the Mac, it's marketshare has not increased significantly over the years, and has dwindled a bit with every major technology change they've made
Nope. Until it can be run on non-dongle-ridden hardware, it is not versatile. In fact, depending on how Jobs' current 'selling sugar water to the kids' (iPod/iTunes) initiative goes, it might be a dead end platform before that long.
What the hell are you talking about? So, the Intel Macintoshes are not versatile? So I can't run Windows and Linux and OS X on the same machine? Wait, I can...so what the hell does having a "dongle" have anything to do with it? I could..if I wanted...buy an Intel Mac and run any OS on it I want. Again, how is this not versatile?
Just because the OS doesn't run on other machines doesn't mean that the Macintosh itself (which is the hardware), isn't versatile. Put down the pipe for a while will ya?
No, it IS versatile, you just have to use it on their Hardware. Their OS, their hardware. Don't like it? Don't buy it. No one is forcing anyone. But the perk of buying THEIR hardware is the option to run all 3 OS's if you want...that's versatility. Albeit you're paying more for the hardware for that versatility, but to some it's worth it.
Apple opening up OS X to run on any hardware isn't going to be happening anytime soon and I think that people should just get over it. If it happens it happens. I'm not holding my breath for it.
I mean, bar none...300 had to be the BEST obviously-filmed-in-front-of-a-greenscreen movie EVER! The move harkens back to the by-gone days of movies like "Attack of the Clones" with the historical accuracy of Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor".
This will open doors for more obviously-filmed-in-front-of-greenscreen movies, which the world needs more of.
I don't know. Speaking from a perspective of a graphics pro that's used both platforms, the Mac just "feels" more natural to me. No, I can't put that in a quantitative explanation. I've gone from Mac to PC back to Mac and yes, Photoshop performs on both, but as I said, it just "feels" better to me on the Mac. I've tried to understand why this is, but I really can't put my finger on it.
But honestly, it all comes down to personal preference. I know in the pre-press shops I've worked at, the PC has tried to make inroads, but there are a few things that just keep it back. Font handling is one....though most shops are going to an all PDF workflow, so that mitigates some of these problems.
But like this article, the great thing about the Intel Macs is, you can run either OS X or Windows....or even Linux, if you want. I would say that the extra you pay for the Mac is actually made up for this ability right there. It's very versatile now.
He's just mad that they waited too long to try to just buy Google outright before they got big. Then he got even more upset when someone on his staff showed him the definition of "competition".
Another missing but service I use all the time is TextExpander. It's very useful in placing things that you type all the time. For instance I have a shortcut "hhref" that will invoke "a href="http://address">description/a" so I can place a link very easily without having to type it out everytime.
I have to agree, TextMate is bar-none one of the finest editors I've ever used. Not to mention that TextMate is also a Cocoa app, unlike BBedit...not to mention the fact that BareBones has said that BBedit may never become a Cocoa app. (This was mentioned on a recent MacBreak Weekly).
I find something new in TextMate just about every time I use it. For instance, in a Cocoa app like Safari when you're going to type in a text field, just click in the text field and hit command-control-E and it will invoke TextMate to edit. Then when you save it (to a temp folder) it loads it into your text field in Safari. Give it a try.
When I first went to Linux, I decided to jump in the deep end and use Gentoo as my very first distro to install and learn on. And BOY did I learn a lot with Gentoo. No graphical installer, no nothing except for the install guide that was just a few pages printed off on a printer. Between that, the Gentoo IRC channel and the forums, I learned all kinds of things about setting up a Linux system...because you had to get in there and get your hands dirty. I basically learned what to change or tweak and WHY I was changing and tweaking it.
I've moved on to another system (OS X), but I'll always have a fond place in my heart for Gentoo...right next to my beloved Amiga.
I look at it this way...and it's the way I've been using it in beta. Lightroom is just the replacement for Bridge. It's can't produce a finished photo (for me at least as it's noise reduction and sharpening are laughable), but it processes the RAW data, then pipes it to Photoshop to finish up and output.
So it's basically (again, for me) just a $200 Bridge upgrade.
1. Buy songs from iTunes 2. Burn songs to CD. 3. "return" songs for refund. 4. Enjoy your free music.
I have to wonder, does this apply also to store bought CD's also in the EU? So can you buy a CD, take it home and rip it to your HD and then return it? Just wondering.
(yes, these are actual questions I've been asked...though not through the fault of the person asking, more with the boneheads that label these things).
Well, everyone would be different, OR if they're not on a quest at the moment, you can get others to help out in your quest by sharing it with them. You know, you're off to find what happened to this kid, find someone along the way and invite them to join you. Could even be when you're in a group, the quest scales and everyone involved gets experience and also the amount of mobs or the level of mobs increases with the number of people in your party etc etc.
I know, I don't have the solutions to everything, but it would be more interesting than how it is now.
When playing EQ or EQ2 or World of Warcraft...you get quests. But these quests do NOTHING to change the world around you. You're doing the exact same quests that everyone else is doing and the talk on the channels is like "did anyone do the "Orc Chief" quest yet? I still need two more hammers before I'm done". That's not really RPG is it?
What about dynamic quest generations? Think about this. You start out, you make your character. And that's it. You don't go up to the "quest giving NPC" to get your first quest. You just start out with basic equipment and that's it. Along your travels, perhaps the very first NPC you meet, or perhaps not, THEY may come up to YOU and say something like "my little boy hasn't come home in almost 3 days! I'm really worried about him, he was playing down by the Cave that's just South of here, can you please help?" And WHAM you have a quest. You're ONLY quest by the way. No stacking of quests.
Now, YOU are the only one with that quest. No one else has the "little boy lost quest". You move out and perhaps see another player along the road or off to the side and you ask him if he can help you out...there-by sharing your quest with him. The cave itself can be an instanced cave that is generated for you and in there the quest gets longer and longer and longer, talking to different NPC's that continue on with the generated story, generating more to the story. Perhaps the boy WAS in the the cave, you find a Troll in there that you think ate him...but no, the Troll is really a nice guy that actually saw the little boy being taken away through the caves by a group of soldiers to another area beyond the cave. WHAM, you have more to follow. This quest can go on and on and on and actually span the world as you move through it! And only you and your party have this quest. At any point you can choose to bow out and let the other player or players you've picked up along the way continue it and you go along your merry way. Perhaps to pick back up with it days later with a group STILL on the SAME quest that started with you. Or you go somewhere else.
I know, a story generation engine would have to be built and tested beyond belief. But couldn't something like this actually work? So you feel that you're really part of the world? Sure, there can be quests that are static that everyone of a certain class has to complete. Like a Fighter's quest...more like a "test" to gain rank. That can always be the same because it's the standard test that all fighters must go through. But for a living, breathing world, wouldn't a dynamic quest/story system be much more immersive?
Is something like this do-able? Otherwise, the world never really changes. Maybe big, server wide changes can happen due to a first-time quest like opening a gate to a new expansion or something. But little things that change the world here and there are non-existent. In MMORPG's now, that guy that lost his hammer at the beginning of the Horde newbie area in WoW is ALWAYS lost. You create a new character, BAM he's got a lost hammer in the exact same spot that you go and fetch for him. 3 or 4 people are also there to pick up that same hammer...even though there is only one there, they all pick up a hammer and deliver it to the guy...but the hammer is still lost and the next person now goes to find it. Nothing changes. It's all the same. Wouldn't it be better if a player were to have killed an NPC and now someone has to track down that player?
Or worse, "quests" are given by the same people over and over with the "collect twelve beetle eyes" kind of thing. Or just "kill 10 wild dogs". Doesn't anyone else find this boring? How about a farmer wants you to kill this pack of dogs that's been killing his sheep. You don't know how many there are, but you go out, find the dogs (track them perhaps?) kill them and see that one has a collar on it with a name. These are not wild dogs you find out, but they actually belong to someone. You tell this to the farmer and he tells you that it's a notorious Thief that lives nearby that's
The PS3 does what it was intended to do and does it well, sold out and will continue to sell each and every unit.
Well, let's say I'm going to make a widget. I tell everyone that this widget is the best there ever was. It's going to be expensive, that's for sure, but you'll love this widget! Then, come launch time for the widget I only make 10 of them and they get sold out right away. Therefore I can turn around and say "see, everyone wants a widget because they're sold out!".
Just because Sony didn't make enough PS3's doesn't mean it's a hit.
I have yet to find a single Tolkien fan who said he did an excellent job at capturing Tolkien's over all vision
Seems to me you've found quite a few right here, including myself. If you want to get into nitpicking, that's one thing (such as Elves at Helms Deep). But over all vision? I think PJ captured it quite well.
Has anyone actually used it? It's primitive at best and quite frankly looks unfinished and abandoned by the developers. I'll repeat what I wrote before here about Second Life:
I've tried this out several times. It's free and even THEN it's not worth it. Now I have about the quickest high-speed internet connection and yet it still just sits there for a few minutes downloading everything you walk or fly through. Go to a new place, it starts downloading again....forever.....Ok, so I know it's not all just about how fast your connection is blah blah, but it's a major problem for me as it NEVER feels like you're in another world. It feels like what it is, bad artwork in a bad 3D environment. Fine, but the people that play and you meet must really be nice right?
What people? For the most part most of the world of Second Life looks abandoned. When you go to a place that DOES have people gathered around usually ends up just being either virtual prostitution or porn. Or worse, just people sitting in these chairs that generate for them 1 Lindon per hour or something. Just sitting. Or dancing....AFK people sitting and dancing. Wow, fun! The animations are just horrendous. The avatars and 3D graphics are equally bad. What's the point in even loading this up if nothing even remotely looks real nor interacts in a real way? Remove all the crappy graphics and you're left with what we already have on the net! Web sites and instant messages and email. Second Life just seems to add complications to something that didn't need complications.
Also, don't know what the point is. It's a chat/social/networking thingy that's laggy and unreal. Ok, so basically a instant messenger with badly made 3D avatars that all look like nymphet women wearing very skimpy clothes that still look unreal. We're talking animations and models that are pre Everquest. I felt like I was in some world that was made 15 years or go or something. It also didn't seem finished. It felt like a beta of something that was abandoned about 3 years ago and just barely hanging on.
I don't know...I just don't get it. Are they trying to be? A chat site? A site that has info for companies? Virtual storefronts? The thing is, the Web and instant message clients already do this...and MUCH better too! They had a concert there with Suzanne Vega and did anyone see it? It's about as dynamic as watching grass grow. I mean it. There are videos of it out there on the web from Youtube, see for yourself. What I can't understand is how this is better than seeing a live video of Vega singing and playing. Also, what was stopping some idiot from walking up on the stage with a naked avatar? Did they put some invisible wall up between the performer and the "audience"?
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...is not to publish the individual notes themselves. Instead, just post the chord changes. Chord changes can NOT be copy-written or is there protection.
Nothing fancy. For instance, here is the chord changes for "Hey Joe". C-G-D-A-E......there, come arrest me.
That's the chord changes, then it's up to the musician to listen to how Jimi Hendrix did it inside of those chord changes when he made his cover of the song....which is actually better than to read a transcription anyway as if you figure it out for yourself, it will make you a better player.
Posting chord changes at least points you in the right direction.
no pleasing some people. If they offered it at the same price, they'd still complain that not ALL the music on iTunes is DRM free. Once they do that, then they'd complain about the .99 cents saying it's too much.
If Apple gave away the music for free in FLAC or Apple Lossless people would STILL complain ("these files are too big...etc etc").
Again, no pleasing some people. Even though you could buy the full album at the higher bitrate AND it being DRM free AND it's still cheaper than buying the physical CD. pfft....
Now it's LITERALLY a series of "tubes"!
Meh...Apple is the underdog in the computer world. It probably always will be. Despite the hype, the commercials, the fanbois....it's an underdog. So ANY marketshare gain is news really. The fact that sales are increasing in a world dominated by Windows is kinda cool.
As much as I like the Mac, it's marketshare has not increased significantly over the years, and has dwindled a bit with every major technology change they've made
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January
Net Applications: Apple's Mac 'market share' continues rise, hits 6.38% in February 2007
Nope. Until it can be run on non-dongle-ridden hardware, it is not versatile. In fact, depending on how Jobs' current 'selling sugar water to the kids' (iPod/iTunes) initiative goes, it might be a dead end platform before that long.
What the hell are you talking about? So, the Intel Macintoshes are not versatile? So I can't run Windows and Linux and OS X on the same machine? Wait, I can...so what the hell does having a "dongle" have anything to do with it? I could..if I wanted...buy an Intel Mac and run any OS on it I want. Again, how is this not versatile?
Just because the OS doesn't run on other machines doesn't mean that the Macintosh itself (which is the hardware), isn't versatile. Put down the pipe for a while will ya?
No, it IS versatile, you just have to use it on their Hardware. Their OS, their hardware. Don't like it? Don't buy it. No one is forcing anyone. But the perk of buying THEIR hardware is the option to run all 3 OS's if you want...that's versatility. Albeit you're paying more for the hardware for that versatility, but to some it's worth it.
Apple opening up OS X to run on any hardware isn't going to be happening anytime soon and I think that people should just get over it. If it happens it happens. I'm not holding my breath for it.
I mean, bar none...300 had to be the BEST obviously-filmed-in-front-of-a-greenscreen movie EVER! The move harkens back to the by-gone days of movies like "Attack of the Clones" with the historical accuracy of Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor".
This will open doors for more obviously-filmed-in-front-of-greenscreen movies, which the world needs more of.
I don't know. Speaking from a perspective of a graphics pro that's used both platforms, the Mac just "feels" more natural to me. No, I can't put that in a quantitative explanation. I've gone from Mac to PC back to Mac and yes, Photoshop performs on both, but as I said, it just "feels" better to me on the Mac. I've tried to understand why this is, but I really can't put my finger on it.
But honestly, it all comes down to personal preference. I know in the pre-press shops I've worked at, the PC has tried to make inroads, but there are a few things that just keep it back. Font handling is one....though most shops are going to an all PDF workflow, so that mitigates some of these problems.
But like this article, the great thing about the Intel Macs is, you can run either OS X or Windows....or even Linux, if you want. I would say that the extra you pay for the Mac is actually made up for this ability right there. It's very versatile now.
Actually, I agree with you too as I have a Tele and not a Strat. But I thought it was a cool quote from PRS.
He's just mad that they waited too long to try to just buy Google outright before they got big. Then he got even more upset when someone on his staff showed him the definition of "competition".
Good news! Tabbed terminals in Leopard!
Will be interesting to see what else they have in store for the Terminal app.
Another missing but service I use all the time is TextExpander. It's very useful in placing things that you type all the time. For instance I have a shortcut "hhref" that will invoke "a href="http://address">description/a" so I can place a link very easily without having to type it out everytime.
Yes, TextExpander is for lazy people like myself.
I have to agree, TextMate is bar-none one of the finest editors I've ever used. Not to mention that TextMate is also a Cocoa app, unlike BBedit...not to mention the fact that BareBones has said that BBedit may never become a Cocoa app. (This was mentioned on a recent MacBreak Weekly).
I find something new in TextMate just about every time I use it. For instance, in a Cocoa app like Safari when you're going to type in a text field, just click in the text field and hit command-control-E and it will invoke TextMate to edit. Then when you save it (to a temp folder) it loads it into your text field in Safari. Give it a try.
Well, also don't forget that you can run Krita on Mac OS X, just compile it and run it on the X11 server that comes on Mac's install DVDs.
Compile and install it through Fink.
Is that Skeletor?
I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
When I first went to Linux, I decided to jump in the deep end and use Gentoo as my very first distro to install and learn on. And BOY did I learn a lot with Gentoo. No graphical installer, no nothing except for the install guide that was just a few pages printed off on a printer. Between that, the Gentoo IRC channel and the forums, I learned all kinds of things about setting up a Linux system...because you had to get in there and get your hands dirty. I basically learned what to change or tweak and WHY I was changing and tweaking it.
I've moved on to another system (OS X), but I'll always have a fond place in my heart for Gentoo...right next to my beloved Amiga.
I look at it this way...and it's the way I've been using it in beta. Lightroom is just the replacement for Bridge. It's can't produce a finished photo (for me at least as it's noise reduction and sharpening are laughable), but it processes the RAW data, then pipes it to Photoshop to finish up and output.
So it's basically (again, for me) just a $200 Bridge upgrade.
That IS great! Free songs!
1. Buy songs from iTunes
2. Burn songs to CD.
3. "return" songs for refund.
4. Enjoy your free music.
I have to wonder, does this apply also to store bought CD's also in the EU? So can you buy a CD, take it home and rip it to your HD and then return it? Just wondering.
How does one conduct business like this?
Is Internet2 compatible with Web 2.0?
Do I need Internet2 to hook up to Web 2.0?
Do I have to call my ISP to hook up to Web 2.0?
(yes, these are actual questions I've been asked...though not through the fault of the person asking, more with the boneheads that label these things).
Well, everyone would be different, OR if they're not on a quest at the moment, you can get others to help out in your quest by sharing it with them. You know, you're off to find what happened to this kid, find someone along the way and invite them to join you. Could even be when you're in a group, the quest scales and everyone involved gets experience and also the amount of mobs or the level of mobs increases with the number of people in your party etc etc.
I know, I don't have the solutions to everything, but it would be more interesting than how it is now.
When playing EQ or EQ2 or World of Warcraft...you get quests. But these quests do NOTHING to change the world around you. You're doing the exact same quests that everyone else is doing and the talk on the channels is like "did anyone do the "Orc Chief" quest yet? I still need two more hammers before I'm done". That's not really RPG is it?
What about dynamic quest generations? Think about this. You start out, you make your character. And that's it. You don't go up to the "quest giving NPC" to get your first quest. You just start out with basic equipment and that's it. Along your travels, perhaps the very first NPC you meet, or perhaps not, THEY may come up to YOU and say something like "my little boy hasn't come home in almost 3 days! I'm really worried about him, he was playing down by the Cave that's just South of here, can you please help?" And WHAM you have a quest. You're ONLY quest by the way. No stacking of quests.
Now, YOU are the only one with that quest. No one else has the "little boy lost quest". You move out and perhaps see another player along the road or off to the side and you ask him if he can help you out...there-by sharing your quest with him. The cave itself can be an instanced cave that is generated for you and in there the quest gets longer and longer and longer, talking to different NPC's that continue on with the generated story, generating more to the story. Perhaps the boy WAS in the the cave, you find a Troll in there that you think ate him...but no, the Troll is really a nice guy that actually saw the little boy being taken away through the caves by a group of soldiers to another area beyond the cave. WHAM, you have more to follow. This quest can go on and on and on and actually span the world as you move through it! And only you and your party have this quest. At any point you can choose to bow out and let the other player or players you've picked up along the way continue it and you go along your merry way. Perhaps to pick back up with it days later with a group STILL on the SAME quest that started with you. Or you go somewhere else.
I know, a story generation engine would have to be built and tested beyond belief. But couldn't something like this actually work? So you feel that you're really part of the world? Sure, there can be quests that are static that everyone of a certain class has to complete. Like a Fighter's quest...more like a "test" to gain rank. That can always be the same because it's the standard test that all fighters must go through. But for a living, breathing world, wouldn't a dynamic quest/story system be much more immersive?
Is something like this do-able? Otherwise, the world never really changes. Maybe big, server wide changes can happen due to a first-time quest like opening a gate to a new expansion or something. But little things that change the world here and there are non-existent. In MMORPG's now, that guy that lost his hammer at the beginning of the Horde newbie area in WoW is ALWAYS lost. You create a new character, BAM he's got a lost hammer in the exact same spot that you go and fetch for him. 3 or 4 people are also there to pick up that same hammer...even though there is only one there, they all pick up a hammer and deliver it to the guy...but the hammer is still lost and the next person now goes to find it. Nothing changes. It's all the same. Wouldn't it be better if a player were to have killed an NPC and now someone has to track down that player?
Or worse, "quests" are given by the same people over and over with the "collect twelve beetle eyes" kind of thing. Or just "kill 10 wild dogs". Doesn't anyone else find this boring? How about a farmer wants you to kill this pack of dogs that's been killing his sheep. You don't know how many there are, but you go out, find the dogs (track them perhaps?) kill them and see that one has a collar on it with a name. These are not wild dogs you find out, but they actually belong to someone. You tell this to the farmer and he tells you that it's a notorious Thief that lives nearby that's
The PS3 does what it was intended to do and does it well, sold out and will continue to sell each and every unit.
Well, let's say I'm going to make a widget. I tell everyone that this widget is the best there ever was. It's going to be expensive, that's for sure, but you'll love this widget! Then, come launch time for the widget I only make 10 of them and they get sold out right away. Therefore I can turn around and say "see, everyone wants a widget because they're sold out!".
Just because Sony didn't make enough PS3's doesn't mean it's a hit.
I have yet to find a single Tolkien fan who said he did an excellent job at capturing Tolkien's over all vision
Seems to me you've found quite a few right here, including myself. If you want to get into nitpicking, that's one thing (such as Elves at Helms Deep). But over all vision? I think PJ captured it quite well.
Has anyone actually used it? It's primitive at best and quite frankly looks unfinished and abandoned by the developers. I'll repeat what I wrote before here about Second Life:
I've tried this out several times. It's free and even THEN it's not worth it. Now I have about the quickest high-speed internet connection and yet it still just sits there for a few minutes downloading everything you walk or fly through. Go to a new place, it starts downloading again....forever.....Ok, so I know it's not all just about how fast your connection is blah blah, but it's a major problem for me as it NEVER feels like you're in another world. It feels like what it is, bad artwork in a bad 3D environment. Fine, but the people that play and you meet must really be nice right?
What people? For the most part most of the world of Second Life looks abandoned. When you go to a place that DOES have people gathered around usually ends up just being either virtual prostitution or porn. Or worse, just people sitting in these chairs that generate for them 1 Lindon per hour or something. Just sitting. Or dancing....AFK people sitting and dancing. Wow, fun! The animations are just horrendous. The avatars and 3D graphics are equally bad. What's the point in even loading this up if nothing even remotely looks real nor interacts in a real way? Remove all the crappy graphics and you're left with what we already have on the net! Web sites and instant messages and email. Second Life just seems to add complications to something that didn't need complications.
Also, don't know what the point is. It's a chat/social/networking thingy that's laggy and unreal. Ok, so basically a instant messenger with badly made 3D avatars that all look like nymphet women wearing very skimpy clothes that still look unreal. We're talking animations and models that are pre Everquest. I felt like I was in some world that was made 15 years or go or something. It also didn't seem finished. It felt like a beta of something that was abandoned about 3 years ago and just barely hanging on.
I don't know...I just don't get it. Are they trying to be? A chat site? A site that has info for companies? Virtual storefronts? The thing is, the Web and instant message clients already do this...and MUCH better too! They had a concert there with Suzanne Vega and did anyone see it? It's about as dynamic as watching grass grow. I mean it. There are videos of it out there on the web from Youtube, see for yourself. What I can't understand is how this is better than seeing a live video of Vega singing and playing. Also, what was stopping some idiot from walking up on the stage with a naked avatar? Did they put some invisible wall up between the performer and the "audience"?