I remember you - years ago and I mean *years*... you wrote for Infoworld. Back then, you were a big OS/2 zealot and anti-Windows. Funny... now you are a big Linux zealot. Take one uniform off... there's always another underneath.
But, please explain your allegiance... or are you just the consumate troll?
If that's what you are waiting on for more drivers... good luck. Apple's purchase of EMagic shows they are serious about pro-audio dominance to continue on the Mac.
"driving down the cost of their own recording gear through economies-of-scale manufacturing."
Obviously you're not in the business. Pro audio is a small-market to begin with and I'm not talking about DAW's exclusively. There is no economy of scale because the scale is so minute that the companies only reason for existence is the prices they charge for basically custom equipment.
That said, as technology marches onward, the cost of professional recording has fallen substantially with the development of cost-effective and powerful DAW's. But they are just one piece of the puzzle.
You *can*, but who would want to? 20 year old development tools. Debugger that sucks beyond belief. Get real. Cobol is the langugage of choice on the MF. End of story.
I hate Microsoft, but WV is a state owned by the trial lawyers. Highest workman's comp claims, high malpractice insurance premiums forcing doctors to leave in droves, etc.
And you sound like the typical hillbilly... it's those big bad corporations fault! The coal industry ruined our state! Yeah... no West Virginian never got rich.
Now... no corporation wants anything to do w/ the backward state. But, there is hope. Once the Eastern Panhandle becomes the most populace area - the politics of the past will be gone.
Maybe Microsoft thinks if they can 'sway' a few Chinese communists with umm... campaign donations like they do in this country, they can convince China to nuke Taiwan tomorrow!
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I use gcc w/ multiple terminal screens. Also have 512MB of RAM on a 700Mhz iBook. Works great for me.
The hotkey rant is justified. AFAIK, 3rd party product is the only solution.
Folks on here are probably too young to remember IBM's play with their mainframes (still exists to some extent today) in the early 80's, before UNIX became scalable and a formidable foe.
I think merging is the achilles heal of CVS. If indeed merging 'rocks' with Preforce, this would be great news indeed. Could you provide more specifics on the merging process and how it differs from the cluster f... of CVS? Thanks!
Was the $ too high for MOTU? I assume they are the Mac market leader in digital audio/sequencers and seemed a more logical fit.
I was wondering what Roger Powell's role at Apple was going to be. Since they have done nothing with OMS to this point, I assume he made the recommendations for the purchase of Emagic.
But then again, since Apple aquired the rights to OMS... I assume Logic uses OMS??
As just having gone thru an upgrade to version 7... I can safely say DB2 on the mainframe blows! Unicode support... they're working on that... Concurrency issues out the wang...
They'll just use you as their 'minor league' system. Find independents (similar to the indy labels currently) that are 'making it'... make them an offer they can't refuse ( what 25 year old would turn down $50,000 to give up their rights to their materiel ) and they actually make out better.
They (record industry) can completely do-away with their new artist development costs and just reap the rewards.
Most of the developers out there don't understand proper testing methodologies. Sad to say, most of QA doesn't understand either.
Take for instance... load testing. A lot of places I have worked for didn't have the proper environment setup to even come close to doing load testing. And how is "developer testing" and "taking more walks" going to help this???
This attitude is now starting to creep into other areas - other than software companies - and into real-time or 24/7 type systems. Bad mistake.
Software companies think they can get Java developers right out of school for half the salary they would have paid an experienced C/C++ developer to write software just as efficient, in half the time!
However, some of them actually don't claim to be. They like to be called 'soundscape artists' or whatever.
IMHO, alot of the really technical people, that can get some great, interesting sounds can't put these sounds together to form a song. Conversely, those that can write 'great' songs (whatever the definition of that is in these days of fading pop music) can't get great sounds to complement the music.
I see it all the time... these EE's or EE wannabe's... all they care about is the technology (be it 30 year old analog or DSP) and completely lose focus of what's being accomplished... MUSIC!!
A novel about a party weekend in Vegas that one can read in 2 evenings is good journalism?? It reads like a trashy novel... oh, wait... that's what it is!
Do you want to work the off-shift hours and the weekends - like retail... or you can work in one of those assembly line - like pharmacy's. Oh, and the one's working at the hospitals... they just love being dissed by the doctors all the time.
And how they destroyed Opcode... I am highly skeptical that this protocol will be used outside of Gibson guitars.
We need a replacement for MIDI - a 20 year old serial technology - and mLan is the best hope I've seen. We need a music manufacturer like a Yamaha or Roland to step up and form a consortium with Gibson, ala Roland and Sequential Circuits with MIDI in 1983.
They were convinced that since MP3's did not offer CD-quality, folks wouldn't bother encoding music. If you remember, they were quick to jump on the "DAT Tax" which was a non-lossy encoding scheme.
My Panasonic SV-3700 which features the "pro" quality digital copy capability (as well as the S/PDIF version) has a switch to defeat SCMS. SCMS was put in to prevent the making of more than 1 copy of a DAT tape. The SV-3700 was priced way out of the league of a consumer. S/PDIF ladened DAT decks went for hundreds of $$ less.
People forget that this has been an issue for 10 years! Only until it affects their MP3 collection do they notice. Us musicians have been getting the shaft by these dweebs for years and from more than 1 angle!
I worked for a software company that produced ERP software running on NT/SQL Server for a Japanese company - and as a DEVELOPER I can tell you we didn't have to do anything other than have it support Unicode 100% and have a Japanese contractor convert our Visual Studio String Table to Japanese.
Now... the installer... there were a few tricks needed there.
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No... that would be BEA and IBM. Since when does Microsoft have a Java App Server??
I remember you - years ago and I mean *years*... you wrote for Infoworld. Back then, you were a big OS/2 zealot and anti-Windows. Funny... now you are a big Linux zealot. Take one uniform off... there's always another underneath.
But, please explain your allegiance... or are you just the consumate troll?
If that's what you are waiting on for more drivers... good luck. Apple's purchase of EMagic shows they are serious about pro-audio dominance to continue on the Mac.
Too many folks on here think you buy a copy of Pro Tools and BLAM!! you have a "pro studio". Not even close.
"driving down the cost of their own recording gear through economies-of-scale manufacturing."
Obviously you're not in the business. Pro audio is a small-market to begin with and I'm not talking about DAW's exclusively. There is no economy of scale because the scale is so minute that the companies only reason for existence is the prices they charge for basically custom equipment.
That said, as technology marches onward, the cost of professional recording has fallen substantially with the development of cost-effective and powerful DAW's. But they are just one piece of the puzzle.
You *can*, but who would want to? 20 year old development tools. Debugger that sucks beyond belief. Get real. Cobol is the langugage of choice on the MF. End of story.
I hate Microsoft, but WV is a state owned by the trial lawyers. Highest workman's comp claims, high malpractice insurance premiums forcing doctors to leave in droves, etc.
And you sound like the typical hillbilly... it's those big bad corporations fault! The coal industry ruined our state! Yeah... no West Virginian never got rich.
Now... no corporation wants anything to do w/ the backward state. But, there is hope. Once the Eastern Panhandle becomes the most populace area - the politics of the past will be gone.
Maybe Microsoft thinks if they can 'sway' a few Chinese communists with umm... campaign donations like they do in this country, they can convince China to nuke Taiwan tomorrow!
I use gcc w/ multiple terminal screens. Also have 512MB of RAM on a 700Mhz iBook. Works great for me.
The hotkey rant is justified. AFAIK, 3rd party product is the only solution.
It was the 1976 UK tour that taught you brits what punk music was!
Big deal. Maybe they can kill each other off.
Folks on here are probably too young to remember IBM's play with their mainframes (still exists to some extent today) in the early 80's, before UNIX became scalable and a formidable foe.
I think merging is the achilles heal of CVS. If indeed merging 'rocks' with Preforce, this would be great news indeed. Could you provide more specifics on the merging process and how it differs from the cluster f... of CVS? Thanks!
You mention bands that are... let's see THIRTY YEARS OLD! Quite different situation then!
Then you mention bands that between them have probably sold less than the prior mentioned dogsh*t bands. Can you say niche?
Was the $ too high for MOTU? I assume they are the Mac market leader in digital audio/sequencers and seemed a more logical fit.
I was wondering what Roger Powell's role at Apple was going to be. Since they have done nothing with OMS to this point, I assume he made the recommendations for the purchase of Emagic.
But then again, since Apple aquired the rights to OMS... I assume Logic uses OMS??
As just having gone thru an upgrade to version 7... I can safely say DB2 on the mainframe blows! Unicode support... they're working on that... Concurrency issues out the wang...
I'll take Oracle 9i on UNIX any day.
They'll just use you as their 'minor league' system. Find independents (similar to the indy labels currently) that are 'making it'... make them an offer they can't refuse ( what 25 year old would turn down $50,000 to give up their rights to their materiel ) and they actually make out better.
They (record industry) can completely do-away with their new artist development costs and just reap the rewards.
Most of the developers out there don't understand proper testing methodologies. Sad to say, most of QA doesn't understand either.
Take for instance... load testing. A lot of places I have worked for didn't have the proper environment setup to even come close to doing load testing. And how is "developer testing" and "taking more walks" going to help this???
This attitude is now starting to creep into other areas - other than software companies - and into real-time or 24/7 type systems. Bad mistake.
Software companies think they can get Java developers right out of school for half the salary they would have paid an experienced C/C++ developer to write software just as efficient, in half the time!
However, some of them actually don't claim to be. They like to be called 'soundscape artists' or whatever.
IMHO, alot of the really technical people, that can get some great, interesting sounds can't put these sounds together to form a song. Conversely, those that can write 'great' songs (whatever the definition of that is in these days of fading pop music) can't get great sounds to complement the music.
I see it all the time... these EE's or EE wannabe's... all they care about is the technology (be it 30 year old analog or DSP) and completely lose focus of what's being accomplished... MUSIC!!
A novel about a party weekend in Vegas that one can read in 2 evenings is good journalism?? It reads like a trashy novel... oh, wait... that's what it is!
Do you want to work the off-shift hours and the weekends - like retail... or you can work in one of those assembly line - like pharmacy's. Oh, and the one's working at the hospitals... they just love being dissed by the doctors all the time.
Not as glorious career as it may seem.
And how they destroyed Opcode... I am highly skeptical that this protocol will be used outside of Gibson guitars.
We need a replacement for MIDI - a 20 year old serial technology - and mLan is the best hope I've seen. We need a music manufacturer like a Yamaha or Roland to step up and form a consortium with Gibson, ala Roland and Sequential Circuits with MIDI in 1983.
Why was I unable to get the soccer stadium kit for my kids for Christmas last year?? Nobody had them... toy stores... on-line... They were sold out!
Maybe they have a management (mis-management) issue, since the demand is obviously there.
They were convinced that since MP3's did not offer CD-quality, folks wouldn't bother encoding music. If you remember, they were quick to jump on the "DAT Tax" which was a non-lossy encoding scheme. My Panasonic SV-3700 which features the "pro" quality digital copy capability (as well as the S/PDIF version) has a switch to defeat SCMS. SCMS was put in to prevent the making of more than 1 copy of a DAT tape. The SV-3700 was priced way out of the league of a consumer. S/PDIF ladened DAT decks went for hundreds of $$ less. People forget that this has been an issue for 10 years! Only until it affects their MP3 collection do they notice. Us musicians have been getting the shaft by these dweebs for years and from more than 1 angle!
I worked for a software company that produced ERP software running on NT/SQL Server for a Japanese company - and as a DEVELOPER I can tell you we didn't have to do anything other than have it support Unicode 100% and have a Japanese contractor convert our Visual Studio String Table to Japanese. Now... the installer... there were a few tricks needed there.