This gives students a chance to better understand how much creativity it takes to make what basically sounds like a simple rock song.
Absolutely. Not just students, even, but anybody who's interested in peeking behind the curtain to see a small part of what goes into making, as you say, what sounds like a simple rock song. (Though in a sense, it is simple - most of the tracks are synth keyboards, guitars, or percussion - in other words, the building blocks of rock.)
More important, it might even win him some new fans - folks who used to be somewhat jaded about listening to the music of a rocker who primarily seems to record for video games. I know I'll be checking into NIN a lot more than I would have considered had my only exposure to it been Quake and the T-shirt worn by a certain youthful slacker culture.
As for the song itself, the only change I can consider making is replacing Trent's vocals with the voice track from the Animaniac's song I'm Cute. (If you've heard the song, turn off the vocal track and sing along with the lyrics on the other end of that link - you'd be amazed how well they fit the rhythm, for the most part.)
Anybody know where I can find a 16-track Animaniacs remix?
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are two separate items.
They're not, really, any more than establishing a religion is seperate from prohibiting the free exercise thereof - if the government says 'Christianity will be the official religion of the United States', then it's pretty much included that any religion that isn't Christianity won't be as freely exercised. Likewise, the press is made up of citizens, so restricting the freedom of the press directly impacts the ability of citizens to speak freely. They are certainly different concepts, but they are not entirely seperate concepts.
All of that said, none of this has anything to do with Apple Computer. Apple has no power to make law, and thus Apple can't violate the First Amendment. And the question here isn't whether Apple has violated a law that was passed to ensure the validity and force of the First Amendment, but whether a law passed by the Federal government, which Apple is making use of in its investigation of the leak of trade secrets in violation of non-disclosure agreements, unduly restricts the exercise of free speech and the press.
Big bad Apple versus the poor humble bloggers makes a good story, but it's not the issue in question. Let's not lose sight of that.
Apple's resurgence won't significantly affect the markets that this study predicts.
Apple's only server-based products, OS X Server and AppleShare IP, aren't targetted at the high-end server markets that IBM, Sun, and Compaq are jousting for, and at the low-end, neither product has the installed base of Windows NT or the 'geek chic' of Linux. OS X Server and ASIP probably will have more resilience to migration than Novell Netware, since a company wouldn't invest in either Apple product without a specific reason (say, the ability to NetBoot Mac clients from an OS X server, or ASIP's native support of AppleTalk). Until those needs can be met by a competing product, it's unlikely that current installations of OSXS or ASIP will fall.
On the other hand, Apple can remain a very successful and profitable company without selling a single product in the high-end server market. All those servers have to have somebody to send data to, after all... --
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This gives students a chance to better understand how much creativity it takes to make what basically sounds like a simple rock song.
Absolutely. Not just students, even, but anybody who's interested in peeking behind the curtain to see a small part of what goes into making, as you say, what sounds like a simple rock song. (Though in a sense, it is simple - most of the tracks are synth keyboards, guitars, or percussion - in other words, the building blocks of rock.)
More important, it might even win him some new fans - folks who used to be somewhat jaded about listening to the music of a rocker who primarily seems to record for video games. I know I'll be checking into NIN a lot more than I would have considered had my only exposure to it been Quake and the T-shirt worn by a certain youthful slacker culture.
As for the song itself, the only change I can consider making is replacing Trent's vocals with the voice track from the Animaniac's song I'm Cute. (If you've heard the song, turn off the vocal track and sing along with the lyrics on the other end of that link - you'd be amazed how well they fit the rhythm, for the most part.)
Anybody know where I can find a 16-track Animaniacs remix?
Pauper
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are two separate items.
They're not, really, any more than establishing a religion is seperate from prohibiting the free exercise thereof - if the government says 'Christianity will be the official religion of the United States', then it's pretty much included that any religion that isn't Christianity won't be as freely exercised. Likewise, the press is made up of citizens, so restricting the freedom of the press directly impacts the ability of citizens to speak freely. They are certainly different concepts, but they are not entirely seperate concepts.
All of that said, none of this has anything to do with Apple Computer. Apple has no power to make law, and thus Apple can't violate the First Amendment. And the question here isn't whether Apple has violated a law that was passed to ensure the validity and force of the First Amendment, but whether a law passed by the Federal government, which Apple is making use of in its investigation of the leak of trade secrets in violation of non-disclosure agreements, unduly restricts the exercise of free speech and the press.
Big bad Apple versus the poor humble bloggers makes a good story, but it's not the issue in question. Let's not lose sight of that.
I'm continually amused by those who feel that human behavior can be most accurately understood by studying the economy.
Case in point: the last time you clicked 'reply' in order to flame some git on Slashdot, how large of a financial reward were you anticipating?
If you want a comprehensive database of the foibles, follies, and fads in human behavior, study USENET, not the Dow.
Apple's resurgence won't significantly affect the markets that this study predicts.
Apple's only server-based products, OS X Server and AppleShare IP, aren't targetted at the high-end server markets that IBM, Sun, and Compaq are jousting for, and at the low-end, neither product has the installed base of Windows NT or the 'geek chic' of Linux. OS X Server and ASIP probably will have more resilience to migration than Novell Netware, since a company wouldn't invest in either Apple product without a specific reason (say, the ability to NetBoot Mac clients from an OS X server, or ASIP's native support of AppleTalk). Until those needs can be met by a competing product, it's unlikely that current installations of OSXS or ASIP will fall.
On the other hand, Apple can remain a very successful and profitable company without selling a single product in the high-end server market. All those servers have to have somebody to send data to, after all...
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