I know that "Get a Mac" seems like a trite statement to a lot of people, but in the case of professional audio and video production, there really isn't any reason to do otherwise. Your choices for professional studio compatibility are ProTools or Logic, and everything else (Abelton, etc.) is pretty much only used by hobbyists, not professional studios.
FWIW, my current home studio setup is still a Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz machine with 1 GB of RAM and a 160GB SATA-1 drive. I use a second 160GB SATA-1 drive for my recording deck. My interface is an M-Audio Delta 1010 (24-bit/96 KHz), the PCI-X version (this is the last Mac that actually works with the PCI-X card). I'm running Logic 7.2 still, because it works for what I need, which is for recording a small rock band. I have an M-Audio Octane 8-channel mic preamp fronting it, and the outtput goes through a Presonus Central Station before hitting my Sennheiser HD280 cans and M-Audio Studiophile BX8 nearfield monitors. My microphones are a pair of M-Audio Solaris large diaphragms with Shure Beta 57A and 52A dynamics. I use a LaCie Electron Blue 19 CRT monitor. All in all, a very respectable home studio setup, circa 2005, which is when I bought it.
I can easily record 16 tracks with a shit ton of software plugins including multiple convolution reverbs before running into CPU or disk speed problems. This workstation is not used for anything other than recording, and ten years later, it's perfectly functional, if limited to Mac OS X 10.6 (I keep it off the Internet, mostly). If I needed a bit more speed, I could run a RAID-0/1, add RAM, or add a tc electronic PCI DSP card to handle the reverbs and some of the other effects, rather than having the Mac calculate everything. But, the fact is, I rarely run into insurmountable problems with the amount of bandwidth in this machine. There have been times when I've needed to "freeze" certain tracks in Logic in order to avoid CPU snags, but I'm recording a four-piece rock band: drums, bass, guitars, vocals.
This whole system was literally plug and play. You are simply not going to find anything that works this simply or this well in Linux, not even now, in 2016. Eventually, this system will be replaced with something new and a Firewire or Lightning A/D/A box, and I'll upgrade to whatever version off Logic is current, but there's no need to fix what isn't broken. Logic is, to my knowledge, the only system other than ProTools that is capable of using Avid/Digidesign ProTools HD interfaces.
Of course all programming languages came from alien sources. All our computing technology came from outer space. Otherwise, how could Jeff Goldblum have written a virus and uploaded it to the alien mothership, thereby saving the entire human race?
1. You cannot buy anything from the App Store without having entered and stored a credit card account with Apple. 2. IOS has always had the ability to disable App Store purchases, both for apps, and for In-App Purchases. 3. Children should not be given such things without proper supervision.
Apple should countersue these stupid people for being such a nuisance.
Actually, DHT is far more potent an androgen than testosterone, and is the primary androgen responsible for masculinization. If you block the metabolism of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, you have dramatically decreased the levels of androgens in your body, plus the testosterone gets metabolized through other enzymes into estradiol, the primary estrogen responsible for feminization.
Testosterone is far less potent than its DHT metabolite. Inhibition of 5-alpha reductase causes testosterone to be metabolized through other pathways into estradiol.
Yes, but it's DHT that's primarily responsible for the androgenic effects in your body. Blocking the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme which causes testosterone to be converted to dihydrotestosterone *does* leave more free testosterone in the body, but it get shunted to another metabolic pathway due to lack of 5-alpha-reductase, and is metabolized into estradiol, which is the primary estrogen in post-pubescent and pre-menopausal females.
Small wonder that long term usage of finasteride might cause permanent sterility and/or erectile dysfunction. Less androgens and more estrogens in the body eventually leads to exactly that.
Anyone who knows anything about transsexual transition-related hormone replacement therapy known this, but unfortunately, as very few studies have actually been undertaken regarding the administration of the drugs generally used for trans HRT specifically for that purpose, the information is pretty much only looked at by those of us who need to know it.
Basically, nobody's "allowed" to talk about this, because none of these drugs have ever been approved by the FDA for transition-related therapy. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the angle the defendants use to counter the lawsuit, and if that helps open up the channels for better research into trans healthcare needs.
No company can keep up selling polished turds for over 10 years and still have the whole world think their products are great while they aren't. You might be able to pull that off once, using sufficient hype and a big marketing push that distracts from the downsides of your product, but if it actually sucks and is not worth it's money, you'll be out of business within 1 or 2 generations of your product. Nobody buys a polished turd twice.
Please explain, given the above statements, the financial success of Microsoft.
It's rather more likely than the monopoly being open. How long does proprietary technology generally last in an open market?
The point really, is that because AT&T controlled the whole system, there was no need whatsoever for them to be open about the technologies they developed that were directly applicable to telecommunications, nor was there really much need for them to apply many technologies they developed that they could have capitalized upon, so the charge of stifling innovation is apt.
What's even more interesting is that we will never know if competition would have spurred the development and deployment of carrier transmission systems that are far more powerful, efficient, and flexible than the T system had competition been imposed on AT&T earlier. As you pointed out, the T carrier system was developed and deployed decades before the information on how it worked made its way to the open marketplace. It was never improved because AT&T had no need for efficiency, being a monopoly.
As an aside, I will note that having been involved in the installation of T carriers hundreds of times in my career since the mid 90's, I can tell you that the ways in which the physical assets comprising the telecommunications infrastructure are depreciated are an accountant's wet dream, or so it has be related to me by Bell personnel.
As someone who did a lot of work in the early-mid 1990's helping to commercialize the Internet, I have to say that I must respectfully disagree.
AT&T, as they were constituted, had a very long history of secrecy and obstruction of technological innovations reaching the general marketplace. Let me ask you this, have you ever seem any non-Ma Bell publicly available books prior to the 90's describing how T circuits work? No, you haven't, because they didn't exist. This information was guarded very carefully by AT&T as proprietary information and as trade secrets. Very, very few people understood how these things worked back then, and most of those were former AT&T and Baby Bell employees.
Did Bell Labs create new things? Sure they did, just the same as Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center created things, and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center created things. The difference was, AT&T had a government protected monopoly and used their monopoly power to stifle competition, so they kept all these things in-house. The other guys only dropped stuff that they didn't feel had commercial potential, and they weren't monopolies, anyway. It wouldn't have mattered if other companies came up with technological innovations in telecommunications, unless they thought they could sell them to AT&T, because they wouldn't have be able to commercialize them with AT&T controlling the market. The real advantage of the break up was not price competition, but that AT&T had to start sharing the market with other companies, and because of that, they were forced to let other companies know how to make their systems interoperable with the existing infrastructure.
Wait. If I understand you correctly, you're asking, "Who cleans up after the janitors", right? Aren't they making a comic book, or something, like that?
Don't worry, it won't be long before such a system is used to deny more of our freedoms, all in the name of Safety, Security, and Crime-Fighting. Not to mention concentrating more wealth in the hands of corporate masters rather than providing gainful employment for a large number of people.
High prices did spur better investment in public transportation in Europe, while in America low gas prices created a culture where everyone young and old thinks he needs his own car.
Actually, the low cost of personal transportation vehicles created an American suburban landscape where everyone does need his own car. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy which has been covered in more depth than I could ever hope to mine here. The active destruction of many of America's public transportation resources by General Motors was a major contributing factor which is also well-reported.
If you haven't read it yet, pick up a copy of James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere. Kunstler provides a very insightful account of the systematic failure of American foresight since at least the early 20th Century that has propagated at an ever increasing rate an unsustainable way of life from which there is no easy retreat.
It amazes me that a comment like this can get rated +5, Insightful, such a short time after the release of the D.C. v. Heller and Boumediene v. Bush opinions. Perhaps the parent poster doesn't pay much attention to the Supreme Court of the United States.
It seems to me that a default assumption has grown up that purports to demonstrate that protecting the rights of content creators is somehow immoral.
The laws and the legal system *should* lean toward the side of rights owners, as long as it doesn't go so far as to trample on the rights of the people. After all, in the modern, digital age, the power clearly rests with the public, not the creators, and one job of the law is to be a normative guide.
Granted, the media conglomerates can, have, and will continue to abuse their positions, but what we need to do here is to challenge the *bad* parts of our current IP jurisprudence and legislation without throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.
I'd rather see VW work on an improved version of the GX3 concept. If they enclosed it for better aerodynamics and reduced the engine power from the concept's 125 bhp, they'd be able to eke out much better mileage than the measly 46 mpg of the prototype. There really wasn't any need for a 1.6 L engine in the GX3. They could have gone with the engine from the Lupo 3L, which was a 1.2 L inline three cylinder TDI engine that made 61 bhp.
Of course, the first thing they should do is bring the Lupo 3L back to life and bring it to the US.
The Lupo 3L weighed about 1830 lb, and the GX3 weighed about about 1260 lb, so you can see that the Lupo 3L engine would still give quite interesting performance in the GX3 chassis, and the fuel consumption, with a new aerodynamic, enclosed chassis for the GX3 should enable that configuration to easily reach at least the ~80 mpg of the Lupo 3L, and probably even better that figure by a good margin, while offering the advantages of side-by-side seating.
No, no, we don't don't burn things at the stake anymore. That's barbaric!
What we should do is drop it in a tank of holy water. If it sinks, that indicates that the holy water has "accepted" the metric system, and therefore it does not engage in witchcraft. If it floats, the holy water has rejected the metric system, indicating that it is suffused with evil black magic, and must therefore be destroyed utterly.
You've entirely missed the point of the discussion.
The only justification for rebellion against a legitimate government is to restore the guarantees of Liberty to the People when the government in question loses its legitimacy by becoming so "destructive of those ends", as detailed in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, that to take up arms and risk one's very life to restore Freedom, even in the face of certain destruction, is preferable than living under the shackles of tyranny.
If it ever comes to this point, while winning would be the most hoped-for outcome, it would still be better to live for a short time, and die, as a free man in rebellion than to live a long and desperate life as an abject slave of despotism.
More importantly, the CB rules weren't always what they are now, but since we're discussing the subject, even if you had long cables, your line losses couldn't possibly have been that great in the 11 meter band, unless you either were using equipment wildly unsuitable for the purpose, or your transmitter was really more than several hundred feet away from your antenna system.
Actually, Amateur Radio operators are, for the most part, authorized to transmit at up to 1500 W, not 200 W, and if your have a "really expensive rig", you ought to be able to transmit at full legal power.
Did you know that Amateur operators can use 802.11 at 1500W, provided that they do not use encryption? The 802.11 frequencies fall within the Amateur allocations, but using anything above Part 95 power levels requires that you comply with the Amateur rules, meaning that your transmissions cannot be encrypted.
We're not "signing our bona fides here" unless we post our call signs, which can be verified online in a matter of seconds.
If you indeed are an Extra Class Amateur Operator, I would expect that you would understand the difference between a mode (AM) and a band (VHF, UHF, HF). That is to say, I would expect that you would understand that AM can be used in any frequency band, and that AM travels approximately the same distance in any given frequency band as any other mode, such as CW, FM, SSB, or what have you.
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I know that "Get a Mac" seems like a trite statement to a lot of people, but in the case of professional audio and video production, there really isn't any reason to do otherwise. Your choices for professional studio compatibility are ProTools or Logic, and everything else (Abelton, etc.) is pretty much only used by hobbyists, not professional studios.
FWIW, my current home studio setup is still a Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz machine with 1 GB of RAM and a 160GB SATA-1 drive. I use a second 160GB SATA-1 drive for my recording deck. My interface is an M-Audio Delta 1010 (24-bit/96 KHz), the PCI-X version (this is the last Mac that actually works with the PCI-X card). I'm running Logic 7.2 still, because it works for what I need, which is for recording a small rock band. I have an M-Audio Octane 8-channel mic preamp fronting it, and the outtput goes through a Presonus Central Station before hitting my Sennheiser HD280 cans and M-Audio Studiophile BX8 nearfield monitors. My microphones are a pair of M-Audio Solaris large diaphragms with Shure Beta 57A and 52A dynamics. I use a LaCie Electron Blue 19 CRT monitor. All in all, a very respectable home studio setup, circa 2005, which is when I bought it.
I can easily record 16 tracks with a shit ton of software plugins including multiple convolution reverbs before running into CPU or disk speed problems. This workstation is not used for anything other than recording, and ten years later, it's perfectly functional, if limited to Mac OS X 10.6 (I keep it off the Internet, mostly). If I needed a bit more speed, I could run a RAID-0/1, add RAM, or add a tc electronic PCI DSP card to handle the reverbs and some of the other effects, rather than having the Mac calculate everything. But, the fact is, I rarely run into insurmountable problems with the amount of bandwidth in this machine. There have been times when I've needed to "freeze" certain tracks in Logic in order to avoid CPU snags, but I'm recording a four-piece rock band: drums, bass, guitars, vocals.
This whole system was literally plug and play. You are simply not going to find anything that works this simply or this well in Linux, not even now, in 2016. Eventually, this system will be replaced with something new and a Firewire or Lightning A/D/A box, and I'll upgrade to whatever version off Logic is current, but there's no need to fix what isn't broken. Logic is, to my knowledge, the only system other than ProTools that is capable of using Avid/Digidesign ProTools HD interfaces.
Of course all programming languages came from alien sources. All our computing technology came from outer space. Otherwise, how could Jeff Goldblum have written a virus and uploaded it to the alien mothership, thereby saving the entire human race?
1. You cannot buy anything from the App Store without having entered and stored a credit card account with Apple.
2. IOS has always had the ability to disable App Store purchases, both for apps, and for In-App Purchases.
3. Children should not be given such things without proper supervision.
Apple should countersue these stupid people for being such a nuisance.
Actually, DHT is far more potent an androgen than testosterone, and is the primary androgen responsible for masculinization. If you block the metabolism of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, you have dramatically decreased the levels of androgens in your body, plus the testosterone gets metabolized through other enzymes into estradiol, the primary estrogen responsible for feminization.
Testosterone is far less potent than its DHT metabolite. Inhibition of 5-alpha reductase causes testosterone to be metabolized through other pathways into estradiol.
Yes, but it's DHT that's primarily responsible for the androgenic effects in your body. Blocking the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme which causes testosterone to be converted to dihydrotestosterone *does* leave more free testosterone in the body, but it get shunted to another metabolic pathway due to lack of 5-alpha-reductase, and is metabolized into estradiol, which is the primary estrogen in post-pubescent and pre-menopausal females.
Small wonder that long term usage of finasteride might cause permanent sterility and/or erectile dysfunction. Less androgens and more estrogens in the body eventually leads to exactly that.
Anyone who knows anything about transsexual transition-related hormone replacement therapy known this, but unfortunately, as very few studies have actually been undertaken regarding the administration of the drugs generally used for trans HRT specifically for that purpose, the information is pretty much only looked at by those of us who need to know it.
Basically, nobody's "allowed" to talk about this, because none of these drugs have ever been approved by the FDA for transition-related therapy. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the angle the defendants use to counter the lawsuit, and if that helps open up the channels for better research into trans healthcare needs.
Please explain, given the above statements, the financial success of Microsoft.
They really ought too. We know where +1 came from.
It's rather more likely than the monopoly being open. How long does proprietary technology generally last in an open market?
The point really, is that because AT&T controlled the whole system, there was no need whatsoever for them to be open about the technologies they developed that were directly applicable to telecommunications, nor was there really much need for them to apply many technologies they developed that they could have capitalized upon, so the charge of stifling innovation is apt.
What's even more interesting is that we will never know if competition would have spurred the development and deployment of carrier transmission systems that are far more powerful, efficient, and flexible than the T system had competition been imposed on AT&T earlier. As you pointed out, the T carrier system was developed and deployed decades before the information on how it worked made its way to the open marketplace. It was never improved because AT&T had no need for efficiency, being a monopoly.
As an aside, I will note that having been involved in the installation of T carriers hundreds of times in my career since the mid 90's, I can tell you that the ways in which the physical assets comprising the telecommunications infrastructure are depreciated are an accountant's wet dream, or so it has be related to me by Bell personnel.
As someone who did a lot of work in the early-mid 1990's helping to commercialize the Internet, I have to say that I must respectfully disagree.
AT&T, as they were constituted, had a very long history of secrecy and obstruction of technological innovations reaching the general marketplace. Let me ask you this, have you ever seem any non-Ma Bell publicly available books prior to the 90's describing how T circuits work? No, you haven't, because they didn't exist. This information was guarded very carefully by AT&T as proprietary information and as trade secrets. Very, very few people understood how these things worked back then, and most of those were former AT&T and Baby Bell employees.
Did Bell Labs create new things? Sure they did, just the same as Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center created things, and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center created things. The difference was, AT&T had a government protected monopoly and used their monopoly power to stifle competition, so they kept all these things in-house. The other guys only dropped stuff that they didn't feel had commercial potential, and they weren't monopolies, anyway. It wouldn't have mattered if other companies came up with technological innovations in telecommunications, unless they thought they could sell them to AT&T, because they wouldn't have be able to commercialize them with AT&T controlling the market. The real advantage of the break up was not price competition, but that AT&T had to start sharing the market with other companies, and because of that, they were forced to let other companies know how to make their systems interoperable with the existing infrastructure.
If you want to know where the "thug caste" is, just take a look at who's joining the military these days, or Blackwater.
Wait. If I understand you correctly, you're asking, "Who cleans up after the janitors", right? Aren't they making a comic book, or something, like that?
Yes, this is a problem. Take a look at any of the information available online about nutrient contamination of the Chesapeake Bay.
http://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/nutrient.htm
Don't worry, it won't be long before such a system is used to deny more of our freedoms, all in the name of Safety, Security, and Crime-Fighting. Not to mention concentrating more wealth in the hands of corporate masters rather than providing gainful employment for a large number of people.
High prices did spur better investment in public transportation in Europe, while in America low gas prices created a culture where everyone young and old thinks he needs his own car.
Actually, the low cost of personal transportation vehicles created an American suburban landscape where everyone does need his own car. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy which has been covered in more depth than I could ever hope to mine here. The active destruction of many of America's public transportation resources by General Motors was a major contributing factor which is also well-reported.
If you haven't read it yet, pick up a copy of James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere. Kunstler provides a very insightful account of the systematic failure of American foresight since at least the early 20th Century that has propagated at an ever increasing rate an unsustainable way of life from which there is no easy retreat.
It amazes me that a comment like this can get rated +5, Insightful, such a short time after the release of the D.C. v. Heller and Boumediene v. Bush opinions. Perhaps the parent poster doesn't pay much attention to the Supreme Court of the United States.
It seems to me that a default assumption has grown up that purports to demonstrate that protecting the rights of content creators is somehow immoral.
The laws and the legal system *should* lean toward the side of rights owners, as long as it doesn't go so far as to trample on the rights of the people. After all, in the modern, digital age, the power clearly rests with the public, not the creators, and one job of the law is to be a normative guide.
Granted, the media conglomerates can, have, and will continue to abuse their positions, but what we need to do here is to challenge the *bad* parts of our current IP jurisprudence and legislation without throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.
You realize, of course, that a 3000 lb car is pretty much a subcompact or compact car, right? Like, say, a 2900 lb Toyota Prius?
Perhaps you are more worried about getting hit by 6000 lb "light truck". Like, say, a 6400 lb Hummer H2?
I'd rather see VW work on an improved version of the GX3 concept. If they enclosed it for better aerodynamics and reduced the engine power from the concept's 125 bhp, they'd be able to eke out much better mileage than the measly 46 mpg of the prototype. There really wasn't any need for a 1.6 L engine in the GX3. They could have gone with the engine from the Lupo 3L, which was a 1.2 L inline three cylinder TDI engine that made 61 bhp.
Of course, the first thing they should do is bring the Lupo 3L back to life and bring it to the US.
The Lupo 3L weighed about 1830 lb, and the GX3 weighed about about 1260 lb, so you can see that the Lupo 3L engine would still give quite interesting performance in the GX3 chassis, and the fuel consumption, with a new aerodynamic, enclosed chassis for the GX3 should enable that configuration to easily reach at least the ~80 mpg of the Lupo 3L, and probably even better that figure by a good margin, while offering the advantages of side-by-side seating.
No, no, we don't don't burn things at the stake anymore. That's barbaric!
What we should do is drop it in a tank of holy water. If it sinks, that indicates that the holy water has "accepted" the metric system, and therefore it does not engage in witchcraft. If it floats, the holy water has rejected the metric system, indicating that it is suffused with evil black magic, and must therefore be destroyed utterly.
You've entirely missed the point of the discussion.
The only justification for rebellion against a legitimate government is to restore the guarantees of Liberty to the People when the government in question loses its legitimacy by becoming so "destructive of those ends", as detailed in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, that to take up arms and risk one's very life to restore Freedom, even in the face of certain destruction, is preferable than living under the shackles of tyranny.
If it ever comes to this point, while winning would be the most hoped-for outcome, it would still be better to live for a short time, and die, as a free man in rebellion than to live a long and desperate life as an abject slave of despotism.
More importantly, the CB rules weren't always what they are now, but since we're discussing the subject, even if you had long cables, your line losses couldn't possibly have been that great in the 11 meter band, unless you either were using equipment wildly unsuitable for the purpose, or your transmitter was really more than several hundred feet away from your antenna system.
Don't forget the distance limitation on Citizens' Band communications. It's not only PEP that's involved. 30+ miles is child's play for 12 W SSB.
Actually, Amateur Radio operators are, for the most part, authorized to transmit at up to 1500 W, not 200 W, and if your have a "really expensive rig", you ought to be able to transmit at full legal power.
Did you know that Amateur operators can use 802.11 at 1500W, provided that they do not use encryption? The 802.11 frequencies fall within the Amateur allocations, but using anything above Part 95 power levels requires that you comply with the Amateur rules, meaning that your transmissions cannot be encrypted.
We're not "signing our bona fides here" unless we post our call signs, which can be verified online in a matter of seconds.
If you indeed are an Extra Class Amateur Operator, I would expect that you would understand the difference between a mode (AM) and a band (VHF, UHF, HF). That is to say, I would expect that you would understand that AM can be used in any frequency band, and that AM travels approximately the same distance in any given frequency band as any other mode, such as CW, FM, SSB, or what have you.
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