The problem with mutlitasking on Apple is that they'd have to rebuild much of the OS to get it to work and many applications themselves would need either rewriting or a compatibility layer.
The amazing thing is that they didn't apply that lesson with iOS.
On the OS side at least, Apple hardly innovated at all until OSX (and you could argue how innovative that was). MacOS pre-10 was an awful operating system - poor to non-existent memory protection, no pre-emptive multitasking, poor memory management and significant trouble with memory fragmentation. It was far behind its competitors (and they weren't exactly stellar either).
Even more so with LTA flight, which this article fails to mention at all. The fact that there is zero mention of Zeppelins - the real, obvious parallel to ocean liners which first sold the public on the dream of flying - suggests to me that this is a bit of free airlines advertising.
Isn't that obvious? I mean, if I have a molecular assembly machine in my back room, and molecular blueprints for a Rembrandt, and the real original is provably in someone else's possession, don't you think the buyer would have a good case?
You aren't limited to examining the actual good delivered when determining whether you have got what you ordered.
A less extreme example may be certification, e.g. fair trade certification. If you sell me a cup of juice and tell me it's fair trade, then it will be impossible to tell from the physical properties of the juice I bought whether I got what I paid for or not. But it would be pretty easy from looking at the carton it was poured from.
There'd still be design patents and "trade dress", which Apple has used to harm Samsung recently. Not to mention that the patents Samsung (and now Motorola) are retaliating with are hardware patents.
My guess is they use the agent string of the browser you log on with by default, but you can decide afterwards where you want to be counted. Android is an option there, but curiously it doesn't seem to get counted in the main page stats.
Not legally, you can't. And although you won't get caught (unless I go to the RIAA and show them this comment, muahahaha!) you would get into trouble if you wanted to use the music for anything, e.g. in a game you wrote, or sampled in music you made yourself.
Listen to the stuff by Musopen Symphony Orchestra / Musopen String Quartet, they're indicative of the quality of this project. I think it's pretty good. Maybe the mastering could have been better (it took far longer than Aaron said, I don't think the people doing it had much experience with classical music), but since we have the raw data the mix was made from, a better mixed version can be made at a later point, should someone take an interest.
You know, I'm all for the 2d20 damage against undead stuff, but it would be nice if people got their ideas about holy water from what catholics actually believe instead. Holy water has no non-ritual significance, no special properties are claimed for it.
The results don't matter. I can't scientifically prove that I derive less enjoyment from a convincing fake Rembrandt than a real one. Objectively it's just paint on canvas anyway, and you could argue it's completely irrelevant how that paint ended up on the canvas if I can't tell the difference anyway. Yet, if you sold me a fake Rembrandt, even if you could somehow prove it was identical to an original down to the last molecule, the law would be on my side.
Sure, if it turns out hasn't been blessed by a catholic priest. That doesn't seem likely, but it could happen (e.g. if the seller boasts elsewhere of not getting it blessed).
It's much the same as selling non-kosher meat as kosher. Or selling a sketch you've drawn yourself, saying it was drawn by Munch. If it turns out the item wasn't made as advertised (and "make" in this sense includes tapping water into a bottle) then the customer has a legitimate complaint, even if you think it's completely silly to care whether a sketch you like was really drawn by Munch / a priest really said a blessing over that bottle of water.
There are concert venues where alcohol is not served. Problem solved. Of course, it could be that musicians don't want to play in these venues, in which case they're jerks, but IME (I've done some volunteer work for such a scene in Oslo), that's not much of a problem. Many bands you'd never thought, are willing to play in these venues to give the lt 18 crowd access to their music.
Well, in a sense. The resolutions have been around for years, it's the pixel density that's extreme. But you are totally wrong that there are no disadvantages to it. Most (non-gamer) people have no idea how much more work the computer needs to do work on a 2880x1800 display as opposed to a 1920x1080 display. That's processing power that could have been put to better use, and in this case battery power that could have been saved.
I'm not saying higher pixel density gives you nothing. I'm saying it really takes an unreasonable set of priorities to prefer ever so slightly more smooth character shapes (right on the border to not notiecable) over an hour more of battery life.
I'd like to add that the Musopen Symphony Orchestra is, in essence, the Czech National Sympony Orchestra. They're a very solid commercial symphony orchestra (i.e, mostly playing for films and commissioned concerts, as opposed to being attached to an institution or subscription program).
Yet another poster who has not understood what Musopen does or what this Kickstarter was. Pictures at an Exhibition was not recorded as part of this project. In fact it was freely contributed to Musopen by an amateur orchestra.
A good MIDI performance expert could do better.
Didn't it tip you off that a lot of the music on Musopen actually are midi performances? Anyone can contribute!
1. are a contributer to the kickstarter, and 2. what you were listening to was the raw, unedited ProTools files. They were all that was available then (to backers only, I believe).
Maybe you're confusing this with all the other works on Musopen. They have widely varying quality, as anyone can contribute.
The Beethoven's fifth you linked to is performed by a small town college orchestra, not the Musopen Symphony Orchestra (really the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, but I don't know if Musopen are allowed to say that in advertising!). Anyone can contribute to Musopen - you'll even find midi keyboard renditions there. It's better than nothing, is Musopen's philosophy.
During the Kickstarter, Aaron Dunn wrote to us and we discussed extensively whether we should get a few works by a "big name" orchestra, or several from a less-known one. We did blind listening tests, too.
You still have the option to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations. In fact, you probably will always have to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations, the way copyrights are being extended... but now you also have the option of hearing some solid renditions of Brahms symphonies by a professional Czech orchestra, for free. For ever.
Editions typeset in Lilypond are usually very good. They're almost always better than the stuff musicians print out from Finale from their own purposes, and they're on average better than professionally set editions printed today. Old editions can measure up well, but new ones, not so much IMO.
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The amazing thing is that they didn't apply that lesson with iOS.
On the OS side at least, Apple hardly innovated at all until OSX (and you could argue how innovative that was). MacOS pre-10 was an awful operating system - poor to non-existent memory protection, no pre-emptive multitasking, poor memory management and significant trouble with memory fragmentation. It was far behind its competitors (and they weren't exactly stellar either).
Who wants us to feel special and mushy when walking onto an airplane? Probably someone involved in the airline industry...
Even more so with LTA flight, which this article fails to mention at all. The fact that there is zero mention of Zeppelins - the real, obvious parallel to ocean liners which first sold the public on the dream of flying - suggests to me that this is a bit of free airlines advertising.
Isn't that obvious? I mean, if I have a molecular assembly machine in my back room, and molecular blueprints for a Rembrandt, and the real original is provably in someone else's possession, don't you think the buyer would have a good case?
You aren't limited to examining the actual good delivered when determining whether you have got what you ordered.
A less extreme example may be certification, e.g. fair trade certification. If you sell me a cup of juice and tell me it's fair trade, then it will be impossible to tell from the physical properties of the juice I bought whether I got what I paid for or not. But it would be pretty easy from looking at the carton it was poured from.
There'd still be design patents and "trade dress", which Apple has used to harm Samsung recently. Not to mention that the patents Samsung (and now Motorola) are retaliating with are hardware patents.
My guess is they use the agent string of the browser you log on with by default, but you can decide afterwards where you want to be counted. Android is an option there, but curiously it doesn't seem to get counted in the main page stats.
The Czech orchestra that did this for Musopen have actually played original music for many computer games, among them Civilization 5 and Halo Wars.
Not legally, you can't. And although you won't get caught (unless I go to the RIAA and show them this comment, muahahaha!) you would get into trouble if you wanted to use the music for anything, e.g. in a game you wrote, or sampled in music you made yourself.
Listen to the stuff by Musopen Symphony Orchestra / Musopen String Quartet, they're indicative of the quality of this project. I think it's pretty good. Maybe the mastering could have been better (it took far longer than Aaron said, I don't think the people doing it had much experience with classical music), but since we have the raw data the mix was made from, a better mixed version can be made at a later point, should someone take an interest.
You know, I'm all for the 2d20 damage against undead stuff, but it would be nice if people got their ideas about holy water from what catholics actually believe instead. Holy water has no non-ritual significance, no special properties are claimed for it.
The results don't matter. I can't scientifically prove that I derive less enjoyment from a convincing fake Rembrandt than a real one. Objectively it's just paint on canvas anyway, and you could argue it's completely irrelevant how that paint ended up on the canvas if I can't tell the difference anyway. Yet, if you sold me a fake Rembrandt, even if you could somehow prove it was identical to an original down to the last molecule, the law would be on my side.
Sure, if it turns out hasn't been blessed by a catholic priest. That doesn't seem likely, but it could happen (e.g. if the seller boasts elsewhere of not getting it blessed).
It's much the same as selling non-kosher meat as kosher. Or selling a sketch you've drawn yourself, saying it was drawn by Munch. If it turns out the item wasn't made as advertised (and "make" in this sense includes tapping water into a bottle) then the customer has a legitimate complaint, even if you think it's completely silly to care whether a sketch you like was really drawn by Munch / a priest really said a blessing over that bottle of water.
Not quite, those which are recorded as "Musopen String Quartet" are also from this effort.
The moonlight sonata was not recorded as part of this project.
There are concert venues where alcohol is not served. Problem solved. Of course, it could be that musicians don't want to play in these venues, in which case they're jerks, but IME (I've done some volunteer work for such a scene in Oslo), that's not much of a problem. Many bands you'd never thought, are willing to play in these venues to give the lt 18 crowd access to their music.
I think that the people who have these genes should sue the hell out of the "owners" for giving them cancer.
That was my order of troubles also (well, except for sound. Sound?), it's just that the last step of it happened 5-7 years ago.
Well, in a sense. The resolutions have been around for years, it's the pixel density that's extreme. But you are totally wrong that there are no disadvantages to it. Most (non-gamer) people have no idea how much more work the computer needs to do work on a 2880x1800 display as opposed to a 1920x1080 display. That's processing power that could have been put to better use, and in this case battery power that could have been saved.
I'm not saying higher pixel density gives you nothing. I'm saying it really takes an unreasonable set of priorities to prefer ever so slightly more smooth character shapes (right on the border to not notiecable) over an hour more of battery life.
I'd like to add that the Musopen Symphony Orchestra is, in essence, the Czech National Sympony Orchestra. They're a very solid commercial symphony orchestra (i.e, mostly playing for films and commissioned concerts, as opposed to being attached to an institution or subscription program).
Yet another poster who has not understood what Musopen does or what this Kickstarter was. Pictures at an Exhibition was not recorded as part of this project. In fact it was freely contributed to Musopen by an amateur orchestra.
Didn't it tip you off that a lot of the music on Musopen actually are midi performances? Anyone can contribute!
If you heard these works two months ago, you
1. are a contributer to the kickstarter, and
2. what you were listening to was the raw, unedited ProTools files. They were all that was available then (to backers only, I believe).
Maybe you're confusing this with all the other works on Musopen. They have widely varying quality, as anyone can contribute.
The Beethoven's fifth you linked to is performed by a small town college orchestra, not the Musopen Symphony Orchestra (really the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, but I don't know if Musopen are allowed to say that in advertising!). Anyone can contribute to Musopen - you'll even find midi keyboard renditions there. It's better than nothing, is Musopen's philosophy.
During the Kickstarter, Aaron Dunn wrote to us and we discussed extensively whether we should get a few works by a "big name" orchestra, or several from a less-known one. We did blind listening tests, too.
You still have the option to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations. In fact, you probably will always have to pay money to hear Bernstein's interpretations, the way copyrights are being extended... but now you also have the option of hearing some solid renditions of Brahms symphonies by a professional Czech orchestra, for free. For ever.
Probably not. The reason they have such a draconian system is that music companies insisted on it in order not to sue all of YouTube into pieces.
I'm hoping one day Google will give the treatment to music companies that they're giving to broadband companies in Kansas city.
Editions typeset in Lilypond are usually very good. They're almost always better than the stuff musicians print out from Finale from their own purposes, and they're on average better than professionally set editions printed today. Old editions can measure up well, but new ones, not so much IMO.