Music writer have ascap. the American Society of Composer Authors and Publishers..
The song writers get paid per play by radio stations with moneys distributed by this group which is headed by elected representatives.
Musicians really could use something similar...There the ones getting walked all over by record companies.
I was dissapointed too with the lack of cross fades in iphoto exports to quicktime.
However I did the cross fading with imovie. although it is a pain a musical background and titlescan also be added. There is a lot more control over everything.
I'm thinking malbe this movie creation might be applescripted..? Is that even possible in OS X?
I have an upgrading clone. none of the OS's will work with my current machine. It's an old machine but I want it to last just a little longer...
This drives me a little nuts, because I'm only able to run "unsupported" OS 9.1 which is unsuported and not available for purchase and I don't have it. No photoshop for me or many of the other creative folk with older machines..
Photoshop on my ibook just doesn't cut it when I have a dual monitor setup..
I have a feeling I'm not along. I crave the new technologies and osx is great great great, but I really would like 9 on my powermac as a stopgap...
Maybe I'll stop by my local apple store and get one of those spiffy new Emacs..
I remember that particular mouse. It was like a big hockey puck, but without a ball. It had two feet that would spin when you moved the mouse. Depending on how both feet spun (together for left and right (cw/ccw for forward and back) it moved the curser (sic). It worked suprisingly well.
I like the new optical mice better though, especially since the "puck" mouse was awkward fit in the hand...
Great, another video format. S or Super VHS is a better quality vhs format that apeared 10 years ago. Its still around (sort of) as its good for editing. It required more expensive tapes and never took off.
However People WILL want more resolutions when HDTV is more prevalent. The tape has 2 things going against it
1) DVD's are cheaper to make than tapes. Much like CDs and audio tapes.
2) DVD momentum.
although they should be able to use better codecs with dvd's it brings up the backward compatability problems..
I don't think most people miss the other junk on the DVDs (angles? commentary etc.....)
Back in the 90's before aol bought netscape about the time MSN was starting, before AOL was the force it is today.....
They wanted to have AOL available on every new pc, because they feared that MSN would do well as it was on every PC's desktop. Microsoft wasn't under the Anti-competetive microscope back then...AOL was using its own browser at the time. I don't know how it came about about basically AOL agreed to use IE in exchange for the bundling AOL with microsoft windows.
Microsoft also made deals with apple to port office if ie was the default browser for Macos.
Then AOL bought netscape. Why they haven't switched to Netscape may be for contractual reasons although I'm not sure....
Aren't there new XML standards for formatting things. Shouldn't there be a "open" standard, this would seem to be good for the open source community to push for.
That Mac mouse is cool. Its translucent, optical tracking and doesn't apear to have any buttons... I'd like to be able to keep it instead of my intellimouse explorer which is a nice mouse... But it feels like a waste having that nice original optical mac mouse sitting idle..
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At least there are no PCB's in my foods. PCB's are very very toxic and persistent material (they don't break down). Good old General Electric is going to have to dredge the Hudson river to clean up the PCB mess it made years ago, and hopefully it will cost about 500 million $$ so hopefully it will discorage them and others from this kind of pollution. Seems fines are the only remedy corporations understand which is sad...
The times has a short abstract about the GE cleanup.
Victory? what is victory? to be able to get all the "Free" music many want to steal. The industry is bad so I the consumer should just take what I want.. Gimmie a break. Napster Took from Artists and gave NOTHING back to them. Maybe a few bands got some publicity, but that don't pay the rent.
The industry is failing because it doesn't give people what they want, we don't want more Boy bands or Britany. There is some good stuff coming out on major labels, although its hard to find. The homogonization of radio hasn't helped the music listening experience any.
Someone/ somehow is gonna figure out how to give the consumer the music they want without it being stolen freely. Its hard to make people pay for things they've gotten used to getting for free though.
Look the RIAA is looking out for its best interest.. Not artist's (Thus the RI is (R)ecording (I)ndustry...) .
ASCAP is supposed to look out for recording artists and writers.. I'm not a member so what/how they're doing remains to be seen. The site is good though, they explain how your supposed to make money in music for younger members. They even have a searchable database with which you can look up who wrote and performed any song..but I digress.
I heard that Cnet radio in boston on 890AM. Sounds like streaming MP3 to me (complete with California traffic reports...). Its kinda like an infomercial, Its kinda stupid but you can't help but listen....
You'd think that the PS2 would have lost its flash since the other consoles have newer technology. Technology moves quickly (think about computers one year ago..)
But it seems to be about the games, quantity and quality that is driving sales.
Also the figures are for the holiday shopinging season 2002. In total units shipped sony is way ahead.
Competition is good though.. Better systems and games no matter what unit you choose.
Has anyone else seen the quake II secret level that has less gravity. Jumping, the remains of oponents, those bouncing gernades.. everything was like it was on the moon.. Lots of fun..
check out gamasutra has a lot of feature articles on many aspects of game design. Dig around them, they are good to read and usfull. I think they require a registraction now to read the articles...
At the toy'r'us they had it on the ps/2. I noticed that everyone had gathered around it and were ignoring the Xbox and nintendo. They had FF demo playing. The cinematics were unbelivable, best I've seen on a PS/2. The gameplay looked pretty sweet as well. Of course it was on one of those flat screen displays which didn't hurt the sharpness.....
Microsoft now can tell XP users "use WMF and burn CD's of your videos" watch them in modern DVD players... Much cheaper than DVD burn technology, it gives them an In into the desktop video market. Soon instead of burning weddings etc.. onto DVD those folks will offer cheaper MWF Cds. Download music/videos on your computer and burn them to cd to watch on your tv...
And only creatable on Microsoft PC's. Very clever indead. Although they may be too late to the party.
This seems like a silly question, but do any 3d programs use the videocard as a render processor. It seems the 3d video cards have a dedicated 3d rendering processor built in.
If you can get 90 + fps in quake/// but setting up the vidoe card to do 1 frame every minute at a very high quality setting and then doing a frame grab.......
Maybe the cards can't handle this because there designed for games....
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The song writers get paid per play by radio stations with moneys distributed by this group which is headed by elected representatives.
Musicians really could use something similar...There the ones getting walked all over by record companies.
I was dissapointed too with the lack of cross fades in iphoto exports to quicktime.
However I did the cross fading with imovie. although it is a pain a musical background and titlescan also be added. There is a lot more control over everything.
I'm thinking malbe this movie creation might be applescripted..? Is that even possible in OS X?
What stars???
usa at night
There are already groups for keeping the night dark.
I have an upgrading clone. none of the OS's will work with my current machine. It's an old machine but I want it to last just a little longer...
This drives me a little nuts, because I'm only able to run "unsupported" OS 9.1 which is unsuported and not available for purchase and I don't have it. No photoshop for me or many of the other creative folk with older machines..
Photoshop on my ibook just doesn't cut it when I have a dual monitor setup..
I have a feeling I'm not along. I crave the new technologies and osx is great great great, but I really would like 9 on my powermac as a stopgap...
Maybe I'll stop by my local apple store and get one of those spiffy new Emacs..
O wait...
/Aram
Emacs games provide all sorts of entertainment (when your bored on a classified system you discover all sorts of things..)
1)Fire up emacs....(launch terminal app, type "emacs"
2)M-x dungeon
the classic. It's not infocom but...
or
2)M-x tetris
text tetris !?! really. it's not xemacs...
3) M-spook
fun stuff to put in your emails....
For those not familiar with emacs M=esc
to quit type control x then control c.
I remember that particular mouse. It was like a big hockey puck, but without a ball. It had two feet that would spin when you moved the mouse. Depending on how both feet spun (together for left and right (cw/ccw for forward and back) it moved the curser (sic). It worked suprisingly well.
I like the new optical mice better though, especially since the "puck" mouse was awkward fit in the hand...
That stanford mouse is too old school
Dell charged more for a linux box than for a Windows box. Why? Linux is almost free. support? They had to support windows too.
They stopped selling it because most people who use linux professionally will save the $$ and install themselves..
I think it does run older programs. In a simulation/emulation mode. Don't know much on how it works though...
Great, another video format. S or Super VHS is a better quality vhs format that apeared 10 years ago. Its still around (sort of) as its good for editing. It required more expensive tapes and never took off.
However People WILL want more resolutions when HDTV is more prevalent. The tape has 2 things going against it
1) DVD's are cheaper to make than tapes. Much like CDs and audio tapes.
2) DVD momentum.
although they should be able to use better codecs with dvd's it brings up the backward compatability problems..
I don't think most people miss the other junk on the DVDs (angles? commentary etc.....)
Back in the 90's before aol bought netscape about the time MSN was starting, before AOL was the force it is today.....
..AOL was using its own browser at the time. I don't know how it came about about basically AOL agreed to use IE in exchange for the bundling AOL with microsoft windows.
They wanted to have AOL available on every new pc, because they feared that MSN would do well as it was on every PC's desktop. Microsoft wasn't under the Anti-competetive microscope back then.
Microsoft also made deals with apple to port office if ie was the default browser for Macos.
Then AOL bought netscape. Why they haven't switched to Netscape may be for contractual reasons although I'm not sure....
I Know that there is one XML standard for drawing programs (or at least a draft proposal..) but I can't . It seems like they need to simplify where to find these thing to get usage up.
That Mac mouse is cool. Its translucent, optical tracking and doesn't apear to have any buttons... I'd like to be able to keep it instead of my intellimouse explorer which is a nice mouse... But it feels like a waste having that nice original optical mac mouse sitting idle..
At least there are no PCB's in my foods. PCB's are very very toxic and persistent material (they don't break down). Good old General Electric is going to have to dredge the Hudson river to clean up the PCB mess it made years ago, and hopefully it will cost about 500 million $$ so hopefully it will discorage them and others from this kind of pollution. Seems fines are the only remedy corporations understand which is sad...
The times has a short abstract about the GE cleanup.
Victory? what is victory? to be able to get all the "Free" music many want to steal. The industry is bad so I the consumer should just take what I want.. Gimmie a break. Napster Took from Artists and gave NOTHING back to them. Maybe a few bands got some publicity, but that don't pay the rent.
The industry is failing because it doesn't give people what they want, we don't want more Boy bands or Britany. There is some good stuff coming out on major labels, although its hard to find. The homogonization of radio hasn't helped the music listening experience any.
Someone/ somehow is gonna figure out how to give the consumer the music they want without it being stolen freely. Its hard to make people pay for things they've gotten used to getting for free though.
Look the RIAA is looking out for its best interest.. Not artist's (Thus the RI is (R)ecording (I)ndustry...) .
ASCAP is supposed to look out for recording artists and writers.. I'm not a member so what/how they're doing remains to be seen. The site is good though, they explain how your supposed to make money in music for younger members. They even have a searchable database with which you can look up who wrote and performed any song..but I digress.
Cocoa which is the old NEXT api upgraded and tweeked to MacOSX. It can be used from object C and java.
Apple wasn't getting super good feedback from developers about porting all there apps to Cocoa so apple under pressure released....
The Carbon api, which is a bit like the old mac os (I think like 80-90% the same). This allowed companies to rewrite existing apps for OS-X easily.
These are the 2 native api layers for OSx. Older apps (mac os 7-8-9) still run in a compatability mode.
Oreilly has an article on Carbon/Cocoa that is quite good.
Microsoft is using Carbon for there port..So not as super easy to port.. But then again they just might not want to port it....
Considering Xerox made a lot of money on machines designed to copy things...
I thought Xerox liked copying...
I heard that Cnet radio in boston on 890AM. Sounds like streaming MP3 to me (complete with California traffic reports...). Its kinda like an infomercial, Its kinda stupid but you can't help but listen....
You'd think that the PS2 would have lost its flash since the other consoles have newer technology. Technology moves quickly (think about computers one year ago..)
But it seems to be about the games, quantity and quality that is driving sales.
Also the figures are for the holiday shopinging season 2002. In total units shipped sony is way ahead.
Competition is good though.. Better systems and games no matter what unit you choose.
The PS2 has the advantage that it plays ps1 games and DVD's.
Also if you have a ps1 what unit are you going to get? PS1 games don't look great but many are more fun than there ps2 conterparts and they are cheap.
Also more and more and better games are starting to appear for the PS2 MGS2, FF etc...
Plus the fact the sony appears to be able to churn them out quicker than demand doesn't hurt. That cube seems hard to find.
Has anyone else seen the quake II secret level that has less gravity. Jumping, the remains of oponents, those bouncing gernades.. everything was like it was on the moon.. Lots of fun..
Now thats physics
At the toy'r'us they had it on the ps/2. I noticed that everyone had gathered around it and were ignoring the Xbox and nintendo. They had FF demo playing. The cinematics were unbelivable, best I've seen on a PS/2. The gameplay looked pretty sweet as well. Of course it was on one of those flat screen displays which didn't hurt the sharpness.....
Microsoft now can tell XP users "use WMF and burn CD's of your videos" watch them in modern DVD players... Much cheaper than DVD burn technology, it gives them an In into the desktop video market. Soon instead of burning weddings etc.. onto DVD those folks will offer cheaper MWF Cds. Download music /videos on your computer and burn them to cd to watch on your tv...
And only creatable on Microsoft PC's. Very clever indead. Although they may be too late to the party.
How long till these are playable on Xbox too.....
This seems like a silly question, but do any 3d programs use the videocard as a render processor. It seems the 3d video cards have a dedicated 3d rendering processor built in.
/// but setting up the vidoe card to do 1 frame every minute at a very high quality setting and then doing a frame grab.......
If you can get 90 + fps in quake
Maybe the cards can't handle this because there designed for games....
Not a good history of video games and I learned nothing..... I liked the chart of the gaming systems and time...