I thought hip hop artists just ripped off other peoples beats?
Honestly, they're the people, on the receiving end who most embody Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", as they need beats, bass tracks, synth riffs, etc. But try to get them to pay for, or even credit the original artist, ah, that's where they become capitalists.
methinks you haven't paid attention to the liner notes of hip hop albums since the 80's. Sample clearance has become a lucrative stream of income for many a washed-up musician with catalogs that do nothing for them at the moment. They get credited and get paid for the samples all the time though there are some that simply won't allow it (Prince comes to mind).
It's free... if you can afford Cubase/Pro Tools. Then yes... use those. But this guy doesn't want to pay... so why would something like LMMS not be good enough to teach someone to make a beat? We're not talking about producing a track for Dr. Diddy, or Jay Snoop.
Why does it seem like, when it comes to software, people don't apply the "beggars can't be choosers" mentality?
"I don't want to pay for it."
"Ok, here you go. I did this in my spare time!"
"That's not what I wanted... this sucks. Spend more of your free time and make it better."
"... ?"
If's not about whether or not it's "free", it's about whether it's functional or not. Your argument is a typical cop-out whenever the functionality of a FOSS app is called into question. If you've made the decision to write something like this and release it for the world to see, then you need to be prepared to address issues people have with the software. Yes, we could always go out and buy another piece of software instead of using that which you wrote for free, but we're giving your stuff a shot to look for that alternative so being receptive to criticism is part of the process. If the authors didn't want anyone to speak ill of their software, they should have kept it to themselves. Part of the open source process is people contributing to it's usability by giving input like "Hey, maybe you could make plugin selection a bit more obvious to the end user, it's a pain to deal with right now". We all may not have coding skills, but our input on workflow is just as valid.
I've tried Rosegarden under Linux and it works pretty well but several key VST plugins I use simply don't work. Were it not for that, I'd recommend it all day long.
FWIW, FL Studio's basic package costs only $49, with a more functional version at $99. While I understand that some people believe that they can't afford $99, if you're really serious about music you will save for it. Same for Cubase: Steinberg offers an entry level version of Cubase for $99 that's rather well featured for the price (serious music can be made with the "Elements" package). EnergyXT is not only cheap (€59), but also cross platform, working on Windows, MacOS, AND Linux!
For the musician on a budget, there are options. FOSS is one of them if you can find an application you like. LMMS is just not that package for me.
I can tell this much... The majority of the state did NOT support this bill. I just left AZ barely a year ago after having lived there for 8 years so I have a bit of knowledge on this. The crime in the Phoenix Metro isn't mostly illegals, it's mostly US CITIZENS doing the dumb shit. The so-called burden is waaaay overblown. Again, the citizens are using far more of the resources than illegals... But it's the fact that the illegals CAN use some social services that pisses people off so they over inflate the numbers to get people on board with their cause.
The majority of the illegals just want to work to support their families back home. They don't want to draw too much attention to themselves and really try to stay out of sight so as to not get caught and deported. Don't get me wrong, there are some (few) that come here with the sole intent of drug and gun running, but they're usually from Central America (i.e. MS-13 gang members) since the MX cartels don't want to make too much noise north of the border (they can kill with impunity at home, but doing so here in the States is bad for business).
I've struggled with LMMS for years. I give a try quite often and the end result is torturous. It tries hard to be FL Studio, but "different" but lacks so much that making anything is just entirely too awkward. I've considered contributing to the project but simply don't have the time to invest in it.
I stick with FL Studio and Cubase for my hip hop work (with ProTools M-Powered strictly to send out sessions to studios).
... LibreOffice changes it's name to something less awful than "LibreOffice" will downloads increase.
Part of the problem with many free alternatives to closed/commercial software lies in the name: Libre Office sounds like a bad knock-off and doesn't roll off the tongue as well as Open Office or even Star Office for that matter. Give it a better name and people may want to give it a try.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but Apple HAS been suggesting that Mac owners get some sort of AV solution since the days of OS 9.x.x.
Many moons ago, S3 had one amazing piece of tech in their extremely underwhelming Savage4 and 2000 video cards: S3TC. With it, a Savage4 could muster some of the most gorgeous 3D images of it's time, particularly in Unreal Tournament when the 2nd disc full of S3TC specific textures was installed. While still slow as a constipated turtle shitting molasses, visually a Savage4 was far ahead of the TNT2's and GeForce256's of the day on a game that supported S3TC via S3's MeTal API.
Nvidia licensed S3TC (as did many other companies) for their products many years ago, and it's still proprietary. This is but one hurdle facing a completely FOSS driver.
The desktop that helped to draw me into Linux in the first place was Gnome + Enlightenment (Mandrake 6.1). During my first Linux install, I discovered other wm's and desktop environments installed (I installed EVERYTHING) and explored them. KDE was most like Gnome, but far faster on my machine (K6-2 450 at the time) and I took a liking to it immediately. Through every version of Mandrake I used, I always stuck with KDE as my primary desktop environment with trips to the land of Blackbox or Windowmaker if necessary.
Oddly, on my FreeBSD installs, I always preferred Enlightenment e16 by itself (even now, my FreeBSD 7.3 install has e16)
In the corporate world, Red Hat was king and so was Gnome by default. I got used to that at work, but always settled in with KDE2.x or 3.x at home. KDE4 shipped and I was thrown off at how bad it was and stuck with KDE3 where I could. Years have gone by and about 6 months ago I worked with a client that used SUSE on their servers, and I set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 VM on my laptop to mimic their environment. Using KDE4.x on that wasn't as bad as I remembered my first exposure to KDE4 to be, but it was still annoying (seriously... is there a race to see home many clicks users can be forced to make to do simple stuff that we're not aware of???).
My current CentOS 5.8 machine runs KDE3.5.x. It does what I want with minimal fuss, unlike KDE4.x.
I have one such machine at home right now (and it's in service), a Dell Optiplex GX200 (beige). It supports up to 1GB of RDRAM, giving you the low end RAM requirement for Win7 and mine currently has a P3-933 in it, a tad short for Win7, but workable. Throw a halfway decent ATI based PCI video card in it and hard drive and you have a machine that SHOULD be capable of running everything from DOS to Win7. I've installed FreeDOS on this thing in the past and it worked just fine, so I'm only making the assumption that MS DOS 5.x would be capable of running on it based on that.
Many years ago, I worked for Funcoland. The day that "D" was released for the Playstation, we sold quite a few copies.
EVERY one of them was returned within hours to trade for a different game. Everyone was flying through the game and, yes, they all saw the "Best" ending.
I think what's happening is that devs have kept difficulty at a steady point, yet the gamers are just getting better.
Personally, I don't see the attraction of a lot of these modern games. They don't have the replay value of a game like, say, Robotron 2048 which, after nearly 30 years is still a tough game to play.
So, basically this is pretty similar to the Cyrix Media GX processor that powered Tablet PC's in the 90's except with an ARM core instead of x86 and minus the audio subsystem?
That impression is what gets people to remember the product. As stupid as I think the whole "i" branding thing is, it left a mark for Apple that is associated with a certain vibe. It left an impression on the public.
I know that there's people that won't buy anything associated with Jobs, but there's millions of consumers that wouldn't buy a Mac that have picked up an iPod, iPhone, and will likely own an iPad.
... but with a name like the ASUS Eee PC T91MT and next to ZERO advertising, no one will give two shits about it.
ASUS could have demolished any type of market for the iPad had this thing been given a catchy, memorable name and some ads spouting off about how it runs a real OS, runs the same real applications you use at home and in the office, has a real keyboard, and all manner of other "coolness" about it. In fact, they could even launch a campaign right now showing the iPad as a toy and their machine as something that people with real shit to do would use.... instead we get a great little product that has a shitty name no one will attempt to remember (hell, I had to google it just to figure it out), no advertising, and no sales.
ASUS missed the boat, but I'd like to hope that someone back at their HQ would read this and figure it out...
Seriously, when I had first heard of electronically controlled throttle, braking, and steering systems in cars, each time I thought it was just a matter of time before one goes haywire and causes accidents. There's a place for computer control for things... This is simply not it. Owners of cars with traditional mechanical throttles and hydraulic braking system simply don't have anything like this to worry about and WON'T have to worry about it.
Steering is one place where computer control really terrifies me. As we've already seen, this type of system cannot be trusted with braking and throttle, so next we're going to see cars turning harder than the driver intended due to some "cosmic ray" caused glitch. That person, trying to merge into traffic will end up cutting hard across traffic, likely being killed in the process.
The what are they going to blame it on??? Terrans launching an EMP Shockwave from their floating Science Vessel???
There's a burger in TX that uses this pepper called the Four Horsemen Burger. As of the taping of this episode of Man Vs Food, only three people had managed to finish one in 25 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes of waiting without liquids. The host of the show became number 4, though it looked like he wasn't going to get past even the first bite.
Isn't that illegal (internationally) if a weapon causes this much pain and suffering?
And none of that will matter to the average PC consumer. The person that would buy their next machine on the cheap from Walmart would likely buy one of these as long as the price is comparable. For the average PC user, the one that checks email, does a little word processing, and maybe watches something on Youtube or downloads music, even this machine is overkill.
... The title pretty much sums it up. Big Brother was made "cool" and the public welcomed it with open arms.
Maybe it's time to rethink "digital everything"...
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Seriously... We're reading about how Chinese baddies are doing this and that to gain access to secrets and whatnot and it seems like every few weeks some previously unbreakable form of encryption has been compromised. Maybe it's time to greatly reduce our dependency on the digital world to secure trade and state secrets. I mean... Laptops and phones are lost/stolen all the time, why would anyone in their right mind trust transporting state secrets on a flippin' laptop??? We all know it happens and we all know it's just a matter of time before something horrible happens because some high ranking official has his laptop stolen while playing "toe tap" in the bathroom stalls of some random airport.
Very true, though Windows did pretty much kill one Unix vendor: SGI. I remember looking at 3D Artist and other CGI-focused magazine back in 1997, dreaming of the day I could own an SGI box, only to see the rather rapid rise of NT4 and Pentium II based machines equipped with an Evans and Sutherland, 3DLabs, or Integraph 3D card take over in this space. Eventually, it took over completely and nowadays pretty much any run-of-the-mill PC with a Geforce or Radeon in it can handle fairly complex animation that, years ago, REQUIRED SGI big iron to do.
... 'cause that's what it looks like to me. Low power CPU with integrated audio and video... But the MediaGX, which was used in the Casio Cassiopea Fiva tablet PC, was introduced in 1997 so this Apple A4 , conceptually, is a bit less than new.
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I thought hip hop artists just ripped off other peoples beats?
Honestly, they're the people, on the receiving end who most embody Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", as they need beats, bass tracks, synth riffs, etc. But try to get them to pay for, or even credit the original artist, ah, that's where they become capitalists.
methinks you haven't paid attention to the liner notes of hip hop albums since the 80's. Sample clearance has become a lucrative stream of income for many a washed-up musician with catalogs that do nothing for them at the moment. They get credited and get paid for the samples all the time though there are some that simply won't allow it (Prince comes to mind).
Because they might not like any of these programs. Isn't that the reason why many pieces of software were started in the first place?
It's free... if you can afford Cubase/Pro Tools. Then yes... use those. But this guy doesn't want to pay... so why would something like LMMS not be good enough to teach someone to make a beat? We're not talking about producing a track for Dr. Diddy, or Jay Snoop.
Why does it seem like, when it comes to software, people don't apply the "beggars can't be choosers" mentality?
"I don't want to pay for it."
"Ok, here you go. I did this in my spare time!"
"That's not what I wanted... this sucks. Spend more of your free time and make it better."
" ... ?"
If's not about whether or not it's "free", it's about whether it's functional or not. Your argument is a typical cop-out whenever the functionality of a FOSS app is called into question. If you've made the decision to write something like this and release it for the world to see, then you need to be prepared to address issues people have with the software. Yes, we could always go out and buy another piece of software instead of using that which you wrote for free, but we're giving your stuff a shot to look for that alternative so being receptive to criticism is part of the process. If the authors didn't want anyone to speak ill of their software, they should have kept it to themselves. Part of the open source process is people contributing to it's usability by giving input like "Hey, maybe you could make plugin selection a bit more obvious to the end user, it's a pain to deal with right now". We all may not have coding skills, but our input on workflow is just as valid.
I've tried Rosegarden under Linux and it works pretty well but several key VST plugins I use simply don't work. Were it not for that, I'd recommend it all day long.
FWIW, FL Studio's basic package costs only $49, with a more functional version at $99. While I understand that some people believe that they can't afford $99, if you're really serious about music you will save for it. Same for Cubase: Steinberg offers an entry level version of Cubase for $99 that's rather well featured for the price (serious music can be made with the "Elements" package). EnergyXT is not only cheap (€59), but also cross platform, working on Windows, MacOS, AND Linux!
For the musician on a budget, there are options. FOSS is one of them if you can find an application you like. LMMS is just not that package for me.
I can tell this much... The majority of the state did NOT support this bill. I just left AZ barely a year ago after having lived there for 8 years so I have a bit of knowledge on this. The crime in the Phoenix Metro isn't mostly illegals, it's mostly US CITIZENS doing the dumb shit. The so-called burden is waaaay overblown. Again, the citizens are using far more of the resources than illegals... But it's the fact that the illegals CAN use some social services that pisses people off so they over inflate the numbers to get people on board with their cause.
The majority of the illegals just want to work to support their families back home. They don't want to draw too much attention to themselves and really try to stay out of sight so as to not get caught and deported. Don't get me wrong, there are some (few) that come here with the sole intent of drug and gun running, but they're usually from Central America (i.e. MS-13 gang members) since the MX cartels don't want to make too much noise north of the border (they can kill with impunity at home, but doing so here in the States is bad for business).
I've struggled with LMMS for years. I give a try quite often and the end result is torturous. It tries hard to be FL Studio, but "different" but lacks so much that making anything is just entirely too awkward. I've considered contributing to the project but simply don't have the time to invest in it.
I stick with FL Studio and Cubase for my hip hop work (with ProTools M-Powered strictly to send out sessions to studios).
All the fuss over C, yet there's still no "H" programming language...
... LibreOffice changes it's name to something less awful than "LibreOffice" will downloads increase.
Part of the problem with many free alternatives to closed/commercial software lies in the name: Libre Office sounds like a bad knock-off and doesn't roll off the tongue as well as Open Office or even Star Office for that matter. Give it a better name and people may want to give it a try.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but Apple HAS been suggesting that Mac owners get some sort of AV solution since the days of OS 9.x.x.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50569
Many moons ago, S3 had one amazing piece of tech in their extremely underwhelming Savage4 and 2000 video cards: S3TC. With it, a Savage4 could muster some of the most gorgeous 3D images of it's time, particularly in Unreal Tournament when the 2nd disc full of S3TC specific textures was installed. While still slow as a constipated turtle shitting molasses, visually a Savage4 was far ahead of the TNT2's and GeForce256's of the day on a game that supported S3TC via S3's MeTal API.
Nvidia licensed S3TC (as did many other companies) for their products many years ago, and it's still proprietary. This is but one hurdle facing a completely FOSS driver.
And what do you do when a proprietary vendor changes something in their code that breaks your application? If it's closed, you're unable to fix it.
How many hours of "real work" do you lose while you try to resolve the issue or find a workaround?
Dunno, but I know I've lost many hours trying to get a few FOSS drivers to work in the first place.
... It's the sound of the joke going right above your head.
The desktop that helped to draw me into Linux in the first place was Gnome + Enlightenment (Mandrake 6.1). During my first Linux install, I discovered other wm's and desktop environments installed (I installed EVERYTHING) and explored them. KDE was most like Gnome, but far faster on my machine (K6-2 450 at the time) and I took a liking to it immediately. Through every version of Mandrake I used, I always stuck with KDE as my primary desktop environment with trips to the land of Blackbox or Windowmaker if necessary.
Oddly, on my FreeBSD installs, I always preferred Enlightenment e16 by itself (even now, my FreeBSD 7.3 install has e16)
In the corporate world, Red Hat was king and so was Gnome by default. I got used to that at work, but always settled in with KDE2.x or 3.x at home. KDE4 shipped and I was thrown off at how bad it was and stuck with KDE3 where I could. Years have gone by and about 6 months ago I worked with a client that used SUSE on their servers, and I set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 VM on my laptop to mimic their environment. Using KDE4.x on that wasn't as bad as I remembered my first exposure to KDE4 to be, but it was still annoying (seriously... is there a race to see home many clicks users can be forced to make to do simple stuff that we're not aware of???).
My current CentOS 5.8 machine runs KDE3.5.x. It does what I want with minimal fuss, unlike KDE4.x.
I have one such machine at home right now (and it's in service), a Dell Optiplex GX200 (beige). It supports up to 1GB of RDRAM, giving you the low end RAM requirement for Win7 and mine currently has a P3-933 in it, a tad short for Win7, but workable. Throw a halfway decent ATI based PCI video card in it and hard drive and you have a machine that SHOULD be capable of running everything from DOS to Win7. I've installed FreeDOS on this thing in the past and it worked just fine, so I'm only making the assumption that MS DOS 5.x would be capable of running on it based on that.
Many years ago, I worked for Funcoland. The day that "D" was released for the Playstation, we sold quite a few copies.
EVERY one of them was returned within hours to trade for a different game. Everyone was flying through the game and, yes, they all saw the "Best" ending.
I think what's happening is that devs have kept difficulty at a steady point, yet the gamers are just getting better.
Personally, I don't see the attraction of a lot of these modern games. They don't have the replay value of a game like, say, Robotron 2048 which, after nearly 30 years is still a tough game to play.
So, basically this is pretty similar to the Cyrix Media GX processor that powered Tablet PC's in the 90's except with an ARM core instead of x86 and minus the audio subsystem?
That impression is what gets people to remember the product. As stupid as I think the whole "i" branding thing is, it left a mark for Apple that is associated with a certain vibe. It left an impression on the public.
I know that there's people that won't buy anything associated with Jobs, but there's millions of consumers that wouldn't buy a Mac that have picked up an iPod, iPhone, and will likely own an iPad.
... but with a name like the ASUS Eee PC T91MT and next to ZERO advertising, no one will give two shits about it.
ASUS could have demolished any type of market for the iPad had this thing been given a catchy, memorable name and some ads spouting off about how it runs a real OS, runs the same real applications you use at home and in the office, has a real keyboard, and all manner of other "coolness" about it. In fact, they could even launch a campaign right now showing the iPad as a toy and their machine as something that people with real shit to do would use. ... instead we get a great little product that has a shitty name no one will attempt to remember (hell, I had to google it just to figure it out), no advertising, and no sales.
ASUS missed the boat, but I'd like to hope that someone back at their HQ would read this and figure it out...
Seriously, when I had first heard of electronically controlled throttle, braking, and steering systems in cars, each time I thought it was just a matter of time before one goes haywire and causes accidents. There's a place for computer control for things... This is simply not it. Owners of cars with traditional mechanical throttles and hydraulic braking system simply don't have anything like this to worry about and WON'T have to worry about it.
Steering is one place where computer control really terrifies me. As we've already seen, this type of system cannot be trusted with braking and throttle, so next we're going to see cars turning harder than the driver intended due to some "cosmic ray" caused glitch. That person, trying to merge into traffic will end up cutting hard across traffic, likely being killed in the process.
The what are they going to blame it on??? Terrans launching an EMP Shockwave from their floating Science Vessel???
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kO7MlHgJLA
Hopefully that's the right link.
There's a burger in TX that uses this pepper called the Four Horsemen Burger. As of the taping of this episode of Man Vs Food, only three people had managed to finish one in 25 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes of waiting without liquids. The host of the show became number 4, though it looked like he wasn't going to get past even the first bite.
Isn't that illegal (internationally) if a weapon causes this much pain and suffering?
And none of that will matter to the average PC consumer. The person that would buy their next machine on the cheap from Walmart would likely buy one of these as long as the price is comparable. For the average PC user, the one that checks email, does a little word processing, and maybe watches something on Youtube or downloads music, even this machine is overkill.
... The title pretty much sums it up. Big Brother was made "cool" and the public welcomed it with open arms.
Seriously... We're reading about how Chinese baddies are doing this and that to gain access to secrets and whatnot and it seems like every few weeks some previously unbreakable form of encryption has been compromised. Maybe it's time to greatly reduce our dependency on the digital world to secure trade and state secrets. I mean... Laptops and phones are lost/stolen all the time, why would anyone in their right mind trust transporting state secrets on a flippin' laptop??? We all know it happens and we all know it's just a matter of time before something horrible happens because some high ranking official has his laptop stolen while playing "toe tap" in the bathroom stalls of some random airport.
Very true, though Windows did pretty much kill one Unix vendor: SGI. I remember looking at 3D Artist and other CGI-focused magazine back in 1997, dreaming of the day I could own an SGI box, only to see the rather rapid rise of NT4 and Pentium II based machines equipped with an Evans and Sutherland, 3DLabs, or Integraph 3D card take over in this space. Eventually, it took over completely and nowadays pretty much any run-of-the-mill PC with a Geforce or Radeon in it can handle fairly complex animation that, years ago, REQUIRED SGI big iron to do.
... 'cause that's what it looks like to me. Low power CPU with integrated audio and video... But the MediaGX, which was used in the Casio Cassiopea Fiva tablet PC, was introduced in 1997 so this Apple A4 , conceptually, is a bit less than new.
price of the base model is $50 more than a multi-touch ASUS Eee PC T91MT, which has more features.
Don't forget, you have to buy a keyboard and dock for the iPad (chuckle) just to get the functionality of the ASUS.