Having experience with this subject matter (digital recordings), I can say a) no comercial quality software supports such a thing and b) the output quality would be very poor. At any rate MIDI at the least take much much much less performance the digital audio I process...my recomendation: set up a cluster, because you CAN cluster with NT/NT and NT/Linux, and use SMP systems, because even though cubase itself isnt designed for SMP, it will still improve performance.
I was not a child prodigy trying to get my college degree at age 9. However, I was a fairly intelligent 9 year old, and while in private school my mom was pressured to allow me to skip gradeS. She didnt, something I'm happy about. Why? I had a torturous childhood because i was constantly more worried about learning stuff than being around other kids, it wasn't until my mom pulled me out of school, started homeschooling me and FORCING me to socialize that I developed ANY social skills, i ended up skipping 7th grade, because i wanted to and could and I'm now happy getting ready to graduate at 17, like a semi-normal kid, and I don't worry about what could have been. I know I am not an idiot (mind you i gots muh poor suthun grammatic skills), and I know what I'm good at and I know how to enjoy myself with other people (I'm still working on this dating thing though!)
I promise you if you try to teach this kid all this technical crap, without teaching him how to be a person first, how to hop fences, throw fastballs, and hit home runs, he'll be worthless with anything related to computers, I'm not saying he needs to be a people person, but he needs social skills, he has 13 years before he's expected by society to perform "useful" functions.
Let him make friends (and dang it teach him how!) Then teach him programming. Then teach him how to impress his friends with programming. For love of God teach him to write a working software DVD player for linux with CSS capabilities! I'm so sick of trying to get xine or oms to work and I'm even sicker of booting to windows jsut to watch a movie!
How is that the future? Consoles have beena round for roughly 2 decades, Microsoft is just looking for another way to get in on the action.
Funny comment though, hope you were sarcastic.
In 16 sates they are required to vote the way of their state. In 1976, a member or possibly two voted opposite his state but, it did not affect the election.
Negative, I read it in a magazine article sometime ago. It is part of a U.N. Treaty he wishes to have ratified (my self I think we ought to keep out of all U.N. treaties!)
I'm not exagrerating or wrong. Nor do you provide counterpoints, not to mention you are an AC.
I think they're praying their boy Gore pulls it out, however we must remember, there's alot of overseas military ballots not counted which are almost guaranteed to be overwhelmingly republican.
Myself if Gore wins, I'm going to graduate college and find another country. Sorry, I don't want a treehugger for a president! I don't want someone who will force my wife, with the gunpower of government to have an abortion if she becomes pregnant a third time! (Yes, Gore wants to do that!) I'm not pro-choice, ( I believe a human life is a life at the moment of conception and therefore we would be violated that baby's constutional right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by aborting it - hey! if it works for sea-turtles it should for human beings!) but I also don't believe anything will ever be done about it and therefore do not care as long as I'm not forced into it!
I don't want someone signing a treaty related to eviromental issues that each country should work out on their own! By God, I also don't want a president who will sit there and say "I invented the internet."
The currently available, (whether still being sold by MS itself or not, these are still comercially available) Microsoft OSes are as follows:
Windows 3.11 for Work Groups
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server
Windows 95
Windows 95A
Windows 95B
Windows 95B+
Windows 95C
Windows 98
Windows 98 Upgrade
Windows 98SE
Windows 98SE Upgrade
Windows ME
Windows ME Upgrade
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter
Windows CE (I even have a copy hehehe dont ask me how cause I don't even know!)
PocketPC (or whatever they changed CE into!)
the 98-ME upgrades editions count as seperate OSes due to their MAJOR differences! (The fact that they screw up even more thant he full-versions is another matter.:-)
That's 21 OS products by my count!
Then we have linux which covers all of those bases pretty much in one package. Oh RedHAt and allt hem have special packages for special purposes but download their distro off the net and it will do whatever you want!
Actually, it's 17.
My opinion:
in my state at least you can moved out at 17, and I at 17 am about to graduate, why should I need my parents permission to see a specific movie, or play a specific game? Or for that matter, listen to specific music?
Look I like Bush, I don't like everything about him, but Bush also isn't a liberterian who i more agree with, but who have no chance in hell at winnning. I don't think you opinion is stupid though. This is America people are allowed to state their opinions, only time I disagree with biased news is when it's like it is here in Atlanta who they try to make it seem unbiased while making it biased! Only news paper that doesn't give a liberal slant to everything is my local newspaper (Douglas County Sentinel) and it just SUCKS! This country was founded on the idea of some folks being different form other folks! GET OVER IT PEOPLE!
You geniuses have left out production costs. It costs ALOT of money to make a CD. If you don't like the price of a CD, either a) don't buy them and buy the "warmer" analog tape (which btw, manufacturing wise, cost much less, less as in pennies, for record labels to have made for distribution.) of b) write letters and demand lower prices. I don't bitch and moan about cd prices and i've got quite a collection. They cost no more than tapes used to, and vinyl before tapes and 8 tracks et cetera (remember to adjust fo rinflation.)
Oh btw, you also forgot the overhead of having a website to sell your albums on digitally.
mp3 160kbps 16bit/44.1khz takes up qute a bit of space.
No buddy, you're the ignorant one! Music production IS expensive, and the bands pay for every penny of it! The labels ONLY pickup the manufacturing cost which is what is cheap. A good studio will run 1000 for a day. multiply that by the 30-60 days it can take to record an album, add to that the price of a producer which is usually 1 to 2 percent of all album sales (up until he or she dies....) then another half of a point for the enginer, who instead might be paid a flat fee or say 30g. Add to THAT the cost of mastering prolly 2 or 3 g's. Add to that the 2- 3 thousand dollar cost to get the tape, guitar strings, drum heads, drum sticks, pick and paying guitar tech and such, add a couple more thousand for the team of techs who comes it an sets everything up the first two days. Any studio musicians or whatever are given either a flat fee of several tens of thousands, or a point or 2 depending on who they are and what they did. Add to that, living arrangements, cause bands rarely recording the in the same city they live in.
Sure sound VERY cheap to me, doesn't it to everyone else? It's a waste of money to record a band that ISN'T going to be huge for AT LEAST one album.
half-a-cent to view a webpage once MAYBE. Quarter to listen to the audio track...ONCE! I do hope Rob didnt mean quarter to download the track and keep it. That's insane!
Well if Mediaone would get off their asses and upgrade my 10 square mile area (this being the only area in atlanta left to upgrade...) or Bellsouth would remove my load coils or even better...build a CO that isn't 6 miles away, then yeah, i'd get broadband!
to be honest, past MMX, KNI, and 3d Now, the x86 instruction set hasnt really changed since the 386! (Excluding minor stuff that doesnt effect many people.) So if you can learn the basic 386 stuff a few visits to x86.org will get you the rest of the info you need.
Record LAbels actually don't have alot of direct employees...mostly subcontract people. Most record labels can technically be classified as a small business. A band is definitely a business. RIAA certianly is a small-business! Answer that question?
Tell me, if i pull out a gun an shoot and kill you did the gun kill you or did my act of pulling the gun's trigger kill you? well being that the gun is inanimate and only fires when i pull the trigger any logical person can see I killed you not the gun. (Would-be philosophers who wish to argue this may suck my right nut because you'll only make asses out of yourselves.) So should we ban the gun? Ok fine. Now we've also elinated firearms for self-defense. Not mentioning that a criminal would still have a gun because they're criminals they commit crimes...now i can just take a knife and kill someone...this time did the knife commit the crime of murder? How about the manufacturer? Obviously, no. But let's ban them anyhow...well you're going to have a hard time killing someone with a knife now (not really...criminals wills till have them...cause they are criminals!) But you'll also have a hard time with buttering bread, cutting steak...GETTING steaks. Now well I'll just kill someone with a rope...when that's banned i'll use a rock, then my hands. Do you see the point? The tool is just a tool it can be used for good or for bad, it's the person that chooses.
I'm a musician and a tone freak (i walk into a guitar center and without realizing it will adjust amplifiers i dont even want to play on to the settings i like;-) and i'm not as obsessed with sound quality as you are. Also...face it, if it was a band who's sound you were that entralled with you'd just buy the cd and not bother with downloading one song!
If my company could get investors (you don't know how hard it is to get the kind of money we need ;-) that would be the type of thing you'd see from our label. Major-labels are really screwing themselves here by not following the consumers. It's going to end up with them not making any money...that is if they keep their current course of action.
Ok first off the quality of a 44.1khz 128kbps mp3 is the same as a cd. It only takes up HD space if you leave it ona cd. Being most people these days have a zip drive, superdisk or a cd burner (most people i know anyhow.) That elimnates that question. Now, since when did i say sell a whole cds, i just said the tracks you want. You want all the songs go to frigen borders or best-buy or where ever you buy your cds and buy it. i think Courtney Love however, has the best solution to all of this...just say fsck major-labels.
Actually, you don't know that. Constitutionally it shouldn't be outlawed. It does not violate anyone's right to life liberty or pursuit of happiness and therefore it would be unconstitutional. What people use it for however can do those things. You can ban the tool, but people are just going to make another one.
To be honest napster should simply be a wake-up call to the recording industry. We live in a capitalist society (supposedly anyhow...) where the economy is supposed to be consumer driven. If you method of doing anything with a product or if the product falls behind the times then guess what...you lose. The recording industry would make alot more money if they would sells whole CDs and single downloadable tracks...there are manybands/albums i only like one song off of and don't wish to waste $15 for one song! However $1.50 billed to my credit or debit card...sure thing...set me up a user name and account so that if my HD crashes or whatever i dont have to pay again. That alone would generate a whole lot of $$$.
Again, you don't ban the tool, you ban the trade and the trade has been banned.
Shows what you know. I'm not in government school anyhow. But those in government schools have crap about other countries and liberal eviromental bull shoved down their throats...hell i'm not in a good mood today anyways so i'll just speak my mind..FUCK YOU DUMB ASS!
Well, I can see you're a bigot. "Mumia" is a cop killer, proven cop killer. Why free him? he should pay his debt to society like any other killer. Elvis is not my hero, his music is boring. How do you know if the music i like is bad? you've never heard it. Oh wait you're dumb, I'm sorry I forgot. I don't care who originated it, it's music, simple as that! It's music, I enjoy it, I enjoy making more of it! The only people who give a rip are these racists and these bigots who think black people are superior to whites (when it's the person not hthe group of people tha tmatters anyhow!!!!) or just plain hates people of any other race than black.
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Having experience with this subject matter (digital recordings), I can say a) no comercial quality software supports such a thing and b) the output quality would be very poor. At any rate MIDI at the least take much much much less performance the digital audio I process...my recomendation: set up a cluster, because you CAN cluster with NT/NT and NT/Linux, and use SMP systems, because even though cubase itself isnt designed for SMP, it will still improve performance.
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I was not a child prodigy trying to get my college degree at age 9. However, I was a fairly intelligent 9 year old, and while in private school my mom was pressured to allow me to skip gradeS. She didnt, something I'm happy about. Why? I had a torturous childhood because i was constantly more worried about learning stuff than being around other kids, it wasn't until my mom pulled me out of school, started homeschooling me and FORCING me to socialize that I developed ANY social skills, i ended up skipping 7th grade, because i wanted to and could and I'm now happy getting ready to graduate at 17, like a semi-normal kid, and I don't worry about what could have been. I know I am not an idiot (mind you i gots muh poor suthun grammatic skills), and I know what I'm good at and I know how to enjoy myself with other people (I'm still working on this dating thing though!)
I promise you if you try to teach this kid all this technical crap, without teaching him how to be a person first, how to hop fences, throw fastballs, and hit home runs, he'll be worthless with anything related to computers, I'm not saying he needs to be a people person, but he needs social skills, he has 13 years before he's expected by society to perform "useful" functions.
Let him make friends (and dang it teach him how!) Then teach him programming. Then teach him how to impress his friends with programming. For love of God teach him to write a working software DVD player for linux with CSS capabilities! I'm so sick of trying to get xine or oms to work and I'm even sicker of booting to windows jsut to watch a movie!
Just my $0.50.
How is that the future? Consoles have beena round for roughly 2 decades, Microsoft is just looking for another way to get in on the action. Funny comment though, hope you were sarcastic.
In 16 sates they are required to vote the way of their state. In 1976, a member or possibly two voted opposite his state but, it did not affect the election.
Negative, I read it in a magazine article sometime ago. It is part of a U.N. Treaty he wishes to have ratified (my self I think we ought to keep out of all U.N. treaties!)
I'm not exagrerating or wrong. Nor do you provide counterpoints, not to mention you are an AC.
I think they're praying their boy Gore pulls it out, however we must remember, there's alot of overseas military ballots not counted which are almost guaranteed to be overwhelmingly republican.
Myself if Gore wins, I'm going to graduate college and find another country. Sorry, I don't want a treehugger for a president! I don't want someone who will force my wife, with the gunpower of government to have an abortion if she becomes pregnant a third time! (Yes, Gore wants to do that!) I'm not pro-choice, ( I believe a human life is a life at the moment of conception and therefore we would be violated that baby's constutional right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by aborting it - hey! if it works for sea-turtles it should for human beings!) but I also don't believe anything will ever be done about it and therefore do not care as long as I'm not forced into it!
I don't want someone signing a treaty related to eviromental issues that each country should work out on their own! By God, I also don't want a president who will sit there and say "I invented the internet."
The currently available, (whether still being sold by MS itself or not, these are still comercially available) Microsoft OSes are as follows: Windows 3.11 for Work Groups Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Windows NT 4.0 Server Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server Windows 95 Windows 95A Windows 95B Windows 95B+ Windows 95C Windows 98 Windows 98 Upgrade Windows 98SE Windows 98SE Upgrade Windows ME Windows ME Upgrade Windows 2000 Professional Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 2000 Datacenter Windows CE (I even have a copy hehehe dont ask me how cause I don't even know!) PocketPC (or whatever they changed CE into!) the 98-ME upgrades editions count as seperate OSes due to their MAJOR differences! (The fact that they screw up even more thant he full-versions is another matter. :-)
That's 21 OS products by my count!
Then we have linux which covers all of those bases pretty much in one package. Oh RedHAt and allt hem have special packages for special purposes but download their distro off the net and it will do whatever you want!
Actually, it's 17.
My opinion:
in my state at least you can moved out at 17, and I at 17 am about to graduate, why should I need my parents permission to see a specific movie, or play a specific game? Or for that matter, listen to specific music?
Look I like Bush, I don't like everything about him, but Bush also isn't a liberterian who i more agree with, but who have no chance in hell at winnning. I don't think you opinion is stupid though. This is America people are allowed to state their opinions, only time I disagree with biased news is when it's like it is here in Atlanta who they try to make it seem unbiased while making it biased! Only news paper that doesn't give a liberal slant to everything is my local newspaper (Douglas County Sentinel) and it just SUCKS! This country was founded on the idea of some folks being different form other folks! GET OVER IT PEOPLE!
You geniuses have left out production costs. It costs ALOT of money to make a CD. If you don't like the price of a CD, either a) don't buy them and buy the "warmer" analog tape (which btw, manufacturing wise, cost much less, less as in pennies, for record labels to have made for distribution.) of b) write letters and demand lower prices. I don't bitch and moan about cd prices and i've got quite a collection. They cost no more than tapes used to, and vinyl before tapes and 8 tracks et cetera (remember to adjust fo rinflation.)
Oh btw, you also forgot the overhead of having a website to sell your albums on digitally.
mp3 160kbps 16bit/44.1khz takes up qute a bit of space.
No buddy, you're the ignorant one! Music production IS expensive, and the bands pay for every penny of it! The labels ONLY pickup the manufacturing cost which is what is cheap. A good studio will run 1000 for a day. multiply that by the 30-60 days it can take to record an album, add to that the price of a producer which is usually 1 to 2 percent of all album sales (up until he or she dies....) then another half of a point for the enginer, who instead might be paid a flat fee or say 30g. Add to THAT the cost of mastering prolly 2 or 3 g's. Add to that the 2- 3 thousand dollar cost to get the tape, guitar strings, drum heads, drum sticks, pick and paying guitar tech and such, add a couple more thousand for the team of techs who comes it an sets everything up the first two days. Any studio musicians or whatever are given either a flat fee of several tens of thousands, or a point or 2 depending on who they are and what they did. Add to that, living arrangements, cause bands rarely recording the in the same city they live in.
Sure sound VERY cheap to me, doesn't it to everyone else? It's a waste of money to record a band that ISN'T going to be huge for AT LEAST one album.
half-a-cent to view a webpage once MAYBE. Quarter to listen to the audio track...ONCE! I do hope Rob didnt mean quarter to download the track and keep it. That's insane!
Well if Mediaone would get off their asses and upgrade my 10 square mile area (this being the only area in atlanta left to upgrade...) or Bellsouth would remove my load coils or even better...build a CO that isn't 6 miles away, then yeah, i'd get broadband!
Wow guys! Hemos can get a chick...maybe the rest of us geeks could get a girlfriend int his life! I mean come-on this is HEMOS!
to be honest, past MMX, KNI, and 3d Now, the x86 instruction set hasnt really changed since the 386! (Excluding minor stuff that doesnt effect many people.) So if you can learn the basic 386 stuff a few visits to x86.org will get you the rest of the info you need.
Record LAbels actually don't have alot of direct employees...mostly subcontract people. Most record labels can technically be classified as a small business. A band is definitely a business. RIAA certianly is a small-business! Answer that question?
Your wording made you sound a like a liberal little bed-wetter who thinks we should ban the tools also. :-)
How did you guess that?? ;-)
How did napster violate anyone's rights?
Tell me, if i pull out a gun an shoot and kill you did the gun kill you or did my act of pulling the gun's trigger kill you? well being that the gun is inanimate and only fires when i pull the trigger any logical person can see I killed you not the gun. (Would-be philosophers who wish to argue this may suck my right nut because you'll only make asses out of yourselves.) So should we ban the gun? Ok fine. Now we've also elinated firearms for self-defense. Not mentioning that a criminal would still have a gun because they're criminals they commit crimes...now i can just take a knife and kill someone...this time did the knife commit the crime of murder? How about the manufacturer? Obviously, no. But let's ban them anyhow...well you're going to have a hard time killing someone with a knife now (not really...criminals wills till have them...cause they are criminals!) But you'll also have a hard time with buttering bread, cutting steak...GETTING steaks. Now well I'll just kill someone with a rope...when that's banned i'll use a rock, then my hands. Do you see the point? The tool is just a tool it can be used for good or for bad, it's the person that chooses.
I'm a musician and a tone freak (i walk into a guitar center and without realizing it will adjust amplifiers i dont even want to play on to the settings i like ;-) and i'm not as obsessed with sound quality as you are. Also...face it, if it was a band who's sound you were that entralled with you'd just buy the cd and not bother with downloading one song!
If my company could get investors (you don't know how hard it is to get the kind of money we need
;-) that would be the type of thing you'd see from our label. Major-labels are really screwing themselves here by not following the consumers. It's going to end up with them not making any money...that is if they keep their current course of action.
Ok first off the quality of a 44.1khz 128kbps mp3 is the same as a cd. It only takes up HD space if you leave it ona cd. Being most people these days have a zip drive, superdisk or a cd burner (most people i know anyhow.) That elimnates that question. Now, since when did i say sell a whole cds, i just said the tracks you want. You want all the songs go to frigen borders or best-buy or where ever you buy your cds and buy it. i think Courtney Love however, has the best solution to all of this...just say fsck major-labels.
Actually, you don't know that. Constitutionally it shouldn't be outlawed. It does not violate anyone's right to life liberty or pursuit of happiness and therefore it would be unconstitutional. What people use it for however can do those things. You can ban the tool, but people are just going to make another one.
To be honest napster should simply be a wake-up call to the recording industry. We live in a capitalist society (supposedly anyhow...) where the economy is supposed to be consumer driven. If you method of doing anything with a product or if the product falls behind the times then guess what...you lose. The recording industry would make alot more money if they would sells whole CDs and single downloadable tracks...there are manybands/albums i only like one song off of and don't wish to waste $15 for one song! However $1.50 billed to my credit or debit card...sure thing...set me up a user name and account so that if my HD crashes or whatever i dont have to pay again. That alone would generate a whole lot of $$$.
Again, you don't ban the tool, you ban the trade and the trade has been banned.
Shows what you know. I'm not in government school anyhow. But those in government schools have crap about other countries and liberal eviromental bull shoved down their throats...hell i'm not in a good mood today anyways so i'll just speak my mind..FUCK YOU DUMB ASS!
Well, I can see you're a bigot. "Mumia" is a cop killer, proven cop killer. Why free him? he should pay his debt to society like any other killer. Elvis is not my hero, his music is boring. How do you know if the music i like is bad? you've never heard it. Oh wait you're dumb, I'm sorry I forgot. I don't care who originated it, it's music, simple as that! It's music, I enjoy it, I enjoy making more of it! The only people who give a rip are these racists and these bigots who think black people are superior to whites (when it's the person not hthe group of people tha tmatters anyhow!!!!) or just plain hates people of any other race than black.