"Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs"..and the readers would rater spend $200 on a box from Wal-Mart running Ark, Debian, or Red Hat then a WAY OVERPRICED, incompatable with most applications, and propretary format.
I still cannot believe/. even carries a Mac section.
I can't believe Linux cheapskates like yourself keep posting the same thing over and over and over and over! "Too expensive! One button mouse! Proprietary architecture! Not Linux! No apps! It's ridiculous. You're not saying anything that someone smarter hasn't already said and spelled everything correctly.
And I can't believe that these same people keep bothering to come into this section or post to threads that are clearly marked Apple.
You know what? There are some technically savvy Mac users out there, myself included, who (when the threshold is turned up high enough!) actually enjoy and get a lot out of the discussions in this section.
If you don't like the threads in the section.... stay out. You're not adding anything useful to the discussion and just increasing the noise to signal ratio.
The bulk of the content on the site is geared to the OSS, Linux, *NIX crowd. Please join those discussions and let us have ours.
Or better yet, do all of your editing in MiniDV in Final cut in OfflineRT mode, export an EDL, take the timecode data into the post house of your choice and have them recomposite the high rez footage inside one of their HD telecine suites. Some of the Sony HD telecine suites out there will put just about any home based Intel renderer to shame. Even some of the SGI Flame and Inferno systems will put most systems to shame in terms of render time.
Granted, you break away from the DIY model, but who can afford to have an HD telecine suite in their home? I mean, come on, most/.'ers don't want to pay for anything, let alone a $2 million proprietary hardware/software suite from Sony!
Funny thing is, if you listen to Primus' "Brown Album", it sounds like it was recorded for $8 in someone's basement. Truth be told, Les spent a fair amount of money achieving that very sound. For the drums, they mimiced John Bonham's approach to recording drums on the "Houses of the Holy" album. (Playing drums at the bottom of a sprial staircase with a single mic hanging from the ceiling!)
Primus generally doesn't spend a huge wad on recording because Les owns his own studio, but he has filled it with really really high end equipment... and then goes and makes recordings that sound like they were recorded on a boombox! Ha!
original cover art (if it's painted, one of the more expensive things) will cost you around $2,000-$3,000 with all publishing rights. cover/booklet designers will cost something around $2,000 for the design.
Speaking as one who does do design for bands, $2,000 for the design? That's a rather arbitrary number. For example: I'd charge Mudhoney $2,000 for some artwork becuase they aren't that huge of a band. Now, Pearl Jam, I'd charge them far more than that.
When it comes to design, the value of the artwork is far more than just labor and materials. If i were offered simply an hourly rate for my work as opposed to a lump sum based on the value of the work, I'd laugh in the band's collective face.
Now, pardon me while I go and prduce and direct a music video for Kultur Shock for less than $400. chuckle
It's funny I have a lot of friends in various bands around Seattle, Austin, The Bay Area and LA. They range from straight ahead rock to Balkan Heavy Metal Funk to jazzy/jammy sonic dissonance to full on whacked out prog.
The recording strategy for each of these bands varies widely. Most of them try to keep their budget as low as possible, but maintain a very high level of quality. Two of the bands really really try to achieve a sound very similar to their live poerformance and the other two go in for very deeply layered and effected studio albums. They are definitely the jammier of the four.
What always blows me away is how cost effective all of them are in the studio. Rather than spending loads of money on high paid producers, they pay an engineer to help them make the most of their time in the studio and produce the albums themselves.
The reason it costs so damn much to produce a Britney Spears album is because they need to pay someone to write the music for her, pay a producer to work witth her and pay engineers absurd amounts of money to make her questionable vocal ability sound credible. It's just ludicrous!
Well, the Swedes and Norwegians are essentially socialists and they don't seem to be complaining all that much. I don't hear too many Canadians complaining that their taxes are too high after they've completed their free higher education. I also don't hear the Canadians complaining too much about socialized health care. I mean, if I were hit by a car today and badly injured I would probably be in debt for the rest of my life as I cannot afford health insurance right now due to unemployment. I would really appreciate state funded health insurance.
(now I duck and hide as I visited the parents website and I know I'm pushing a button.)
Also, I never claimed to be a Marxist. I believe Marxism is an unattainable utopian ideal much like democracy in it's truest sense is.... same for capitalism. I'm just some schmoe who's very left of center trying to make sense of the world around him.
Communism does not necessarily equate to Socialism. Democracy does not necessarily equate to Capitalism.
Granted, you're never going to see a capitalist communist state, but a democratic communist state or a socialist democracy are not such ludicrous or contradictory ideas.
I know that no true form of communism has ever occured in the first or second worlds, but it has evolved in many indigenous populations throughout the world. Granted, always in very small, isolated communities, but it has existed., but never in a technologically advanced society with an entrenched, government run military.
Since you seem to confuse Harpo and Chico with Karl, I suspect you wouldn't know a Marxist if one bit you on the behind.
Are you trying to suggest that Engels and Marx would look at what Stalin and lenin did and say, "Yup, that's prett y much how we envisioned the revolution happening and yup, that's pretty much what we expected communism in action to be"? They would be absolutely horrified as to how "communism" played out in the 20th century.
And, oh yeah, Harpo and Chico, good, original, thought proviking jab. Nice to see that you have that great gift of being able to attack a person's arguments and not the person him/herself. Way to go!
Repressive socialism is the legacy of Stalin and Lenin, not communism. They never got there and once they were firmly entrenched in the seat of power, they gave up on the revolution. They loved the power.
See, this is funny because APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY that sells some software.
AND
For a hardware company it's done a great job of outselling the rest of the video editing software industry. Final Cut Pro actually outsold Avid in 2002, not in $'s & 's, but in terms of number of units shipped.
Now, as for whether or not Jobs is qualified to run the country, I'd say no. It seems people with any admirable qualities, namely ethics and a sense of social responsibility always end up being good people, but lousy Presidents. See Jimmy Carter. Great man, but couldn't play the Washington game and Reagan ate him alive.
The "style" of communism to which you refer is actually more of a repressive socialism than real communism. Basically all the East Bloc countries entered phase 1 of the communist revolution and got stuck there.
The revolution is supposed to overthrow the corrupt government. Then and interim government steps in until such a time when said government is no longer needed and the people are able to truly govern themselves.
Communism and democracy can live hand in hand. It's just that we Americans tend to think democracy and capitalism are the same thing. Democracy can foster and nurture capitalism or communism. What really matters is the will of the people.
What know of as communism is so far from actually being communist it's laughable Charles Engels and Karl Mark would be horrified to see what Lenin and Stalin did with their ideas... just as the American Founding Fathers would be appaled at what we've done to their ideals.
Actually it was Scully and then Amelio who nearly killed the company. Jobs brought the company back to profitability within a year of retaking the reins.
Since he (re)took power back at Apple, they have managed to amass $4 billion in cash. I'd hardly call that bringing Apple near to extinction.
I'm thrilled they went with KHTML as the rendering engine. I have a Dell something or other laptop that I installed SuSE Linux on just to learn more about it and Konqueror came with it. Konqueror made me very happy; light, fast, responsive. An all around great browser despite the lack of Flash and Quicktime support.
It's good to see such a responsive browser available for OS X.
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"Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs" ..and the readers would rater spend $200 on a box from Wal-Mart running Ark, Debian, or Red Hat then a WAY OVERPRICED, incompatable with most applications, and propretary format.
/. even carries a Mac section.
I still cannot believe
I can't believe Linux cheapskates like yourself keep posting the same thing over and over and over and over! "Too expensive! One button mouse! Proprietary architecture! Not Linux! No apps! It's ridiculous. You're not saying anything that someone smarter hasn't already said and spelled everything correctly.
And I can't believe that these same people keep bothering to come into this section or post to threads that are clearly marked Apple.
You know what? There are some technically savvy Mac users out there, myself included, who (when the threshold is turned up high enough!) actually enjoy and get a lot out of the discussions in this section.
If you don't like the threads in the section.... stay out. You're not adding anything useful to the discussion and just increasing the noise to signal ratio.
The bulk of the content on the site is geared to the OSS, Linux, *NIX crowd. Please join those discussions and let us have ours.
Or better yet, do all of your editing in MiniDV in Final cut in OfflineRT mode, export an EDL, take the timecode data into the post house of your choice and have them recomposite the high rez footage inside one of their HD telecine suites. Some of the Sony HD telecine suites out there will put just about any home based Intel renderer to shame. Even some of the SGI Flame and Inferno systems will put most systems to shame in terms of render time.
/.'ers don't want to pay for anything, let alone a $2 million proprietary hardware/software suite from Sony!
Granted, you break away from the DIY model, but who can afford to have an HD telecine suite in their home? I mean, come on, most
(ducks and covers!)
I'm actually in Seattle, so it definitely is the Shadow in the East.
Funny thing is, if you listen to Primus' "Brown Album", it sounds like it was recorded for $8 in someone's basement. Truth be told, Les spent a fair amount of money achieving that very sound. For the drums, they mimiced John Bonham's approach to recording drums on the "Houses of the Holy" album. (Playing drums at the bottom of a sprial staircase with a single mic hanging from the ceiling!)
Primus generally doesn't spend a huge wad on recording because Les owns his own studio, but he has filled it with really really high end equipment... and then goes and makes recordings that sound like they were recorded on a boombox! Ha!
Well, in Rush's case, 90% of that budget goes to Alex layering 128 seperate, layered guitar tracks, each with a different effect running over it!
Don't get me wrong, I'm a long standing Rush fan, but Mr. Lifeson does tend to go a bit crazy with the effetcs layering.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Rik Rubin's approach:
"Here's a mic. It's pointed kinda at your instrument. Now Play!"
original cover art (if it's painted, one of the more expensive things) will cost you around $2,000-$3,000 with all publishing rights. cover/booklet designers will cost something around $2,000 for the design.
Speaking as one who does do design for bands, $2,000 for the design? That's a rather arbitrary number. For example: I'd charge Mudhoney $2,000 for some artwork becuase they aren't that huge of a band. Now, Pearl Jam, I'd charge them far more than that.
When it comes to design, the value of the artwork is far more than just labor and materials. If i were offered simply an hourly rate for my work as opposed to a lump sum based on the value of the work, I'd laugh in the band's collective face.
Now, pardon me while I go and prduce and direct a music video for Kultur Shock for less than $400. chuckle
It's funny I have a lot of friends in various bands around Seattle, Austin, The Bay Area and LA. They range from straight ahead rock to Balkan Heavy Metal Funk to jazzy/jammy sonic dissonance to full on whacked out prog.
The recording strategy for each of these bands varies widely. Most of them try to keep their budget as low as possible, but maintain a very high level of quality. Two of the bands really really try to achieve a sound very similar to their live poerformance and the other two go in for very deeply layered and effected studio albums. They are definitely the jammier of the four.
What always blows me away is how cost effective all of them are in the studio. Rather than spending loads of money on high paid producers, they pay an engineer to help them make the most of their time in the studio and produce the albums themselves.
The reason it costs so damn much to produce a Britney Spears album is because they need to pay someone to write the music for her, pay a producer to work witth her and pay engineers absurd amounts of money to make her questionable vocal ability sound credible. It's just ludicrous!
Gimme a 4 track live recording over that any day!
Gil "Let's Make 8 Different Varieties of Performa With Names That Make No Sense At All" Amelio.
I'd completely forgotten about Spindler!
Personally, I think I'll wait until November 2004 before I cast any vote for the President of the United States.
Many apologies for my horrific grammar!
Well, the Swedes and Norwegians are essentially socialists and they don't seem to be complaining all that much. I don't hear too many Canadians complaining that their taxes are too high after they've completed their free higher education. I also don't hear the Canadians complaining too much about socialized health care. I mean, if I were hit by a car today and badly injured I would probably be in debt for the rest of my life as I cannot afford health insurance right now due to unemployment. I would really appreciate state funded health insurance.
(now I duck and hide as I visited the parents website and I know I'm pushing a button.)
Also, I never claimed to be a Marxist. I believe Marxism is an unattainable utopian ideal much like democracy in it's truest sense is.... same for capitalism. I'm just some schmoe who's very left of center trying to make sense of the world around him.
Communism does not necessarily equate to Socialism. Democracy does not necessarily equate to Capitalism.
Granted, you're never going to see a capitalist communist state, but a democratic communist state or a socialist democracy are not such ludicrous or contradictory ideas.
I know that no true form of communism has ever occured in the first or second worlds, but it has evolved in many indigenous populations throughout the world. Granted, always in very small, isolated communities, but it has existed., but never in a technologically advanced society with an entrenched, government run military.
Probably.
I sttll can't believe he ended a press conference proclaiming he would answer no more questions in English, Mexican or Candian!
Since you seem to confuse Harpo and Chico with Karl, I suspect you wouldn't know a Marxist if one bit you on the behind.
Are you trying to suggest that Engels and Marx would look at what Stalin and lenin did and say, "Yup, that's prett y much how we envisioned the revolution happening and yup, that's pretty much what we expected communism in action to be"? They would be absolutely horrified as to how "communism" played out in the 20th century.
And, oh yeah, Harpo and Chico, good, original, thought proviking jab. Nice to see that you have that great gift of being able to attack a person's arguments and not the person him/herself. Way to go!
Repressive socialism is the legacy of Stalin and Lenin, not communism. They never got there and once they were firmly entrenched in the seat of power, they gave up on the revolution. They loved the power.
See, this is funny because APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY that sells some software.
AND
For a hardware company it's done a great job of outselling the rest of the video editing software industry. Final Cut Pro actually outsold Avid in 2002, not in $'s & 's, but in terms of number of units shipped.
Now, as for whether or not Jobs is qualified to run the country, I'd say no. It seems people with any admirable qualities, namely ethics and a sense of social responsibility always end up being good people, but lousy Presidents. See Jimmy Carter. Great man, but couldn't play the Washington game and Reagan ate him alive.
The "style" of communism to which you refer is actually more of a repressive socialism than real communism. Basically all the East Bloc countries entered phase 1 of the communist revolution and got stuck there.
The revolution is supposed to overthrow the corrupt government. Then and interim government steps in until such a time when said government is no longer needed and the people are able to truly govern themselves.
Communism and democracy can live hand in hand. It's just that we Americans tend to think democracy and capitalism are the same thing. Democracy can foster and nurture capitalism or communism. What really matters is the will of the people.
What know of as communism is so far from actually being communist it's laughable Charles Engels and Karl Mark would be horrified to see what Lenin and Stalin did with their ideas... just as the American Founding Fathers would be appaled at what we've done to their ideals.
Actually it was Scully and then Amelio who nearly killed the company. Jobs brought the company back to profitability within a year of retaking the reins.
Since he (re)took power back at Apple, they have managed to amass $4 billion in cash. I'd hardly call that bringing Apple near to extinction.
Somehow I really don't think that that is the sole factor determining profit or loss for them.
Of course they're supporting MPEG-4. Quicktime resides in the very core of that medium.
Interesting! How did I manage to never hit a Flash site while browsing with Konqueror?
I'm thrilled they went with KHTML as the rendering engine. I have a Dell something or other laptop that I installed SuSE Linux on just to learn more about it and Konqueror came with it. Konqueror made me very happy; light, fast, responsive. An all around great browser despite the lack of Flash and Quicktime support.
It's good to see such a responsive browser available for OS X.
http://www.apple.com/safari/download
Apple's new OPEN SOURCE browser based off KHTML from KDE.
Anyone else posted via Safari yet?
It's available now!