Continuing with the house analogy... Users don't have to build, they just stay there and fix the little bugs that are still around. I see no point in moving. KDE4 is just too slow on the hardware at my disposal. So folks who want to stay on the Kubuntu bandwagon but like KDE3, https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Karmic . If it ain't broke.... although many programmer may refer to KDE3 as baroque..
Correct! Where do people have a surround set-up? -In the lounge. How do you get mass use of surround encoded material? -On shiny flat disks or via a broadcast media. Dolby understood this a long time ago and that is why they outmanouvered the MPEG2 camp to make AC-3 the only mandatory codec on DVD. They also shot themselves in the foot by allowing a maximum bitrate which was not enough to encode multichannel audio... The AC-3 codec is nowadays as good as DTS encoding but the DTS track is the only one with enough bits... Back to point of the article. Pro users have been suckered into using Dolby-E which is a high bandwidth AC-3, framed at video frame rates and packed into 16 bits of a digital audio signal so that it may be recorded on any digital VTR or server. Transport of 5.1 is not an issue as digital video can have 16x20bit audio channels embedded. The issue has been storage. Thomson owns Grass Valley and Philips and they make video servers. They also do not want to pay Ray...
I have been using CD-RW for the last two years as a portable hard disk between different computers. The first one died after 3 or four months but I wasn't very careful with the handling. The next one is still in use and I treat it very carefully. There may be differences in media, the first was a MORE, the second, a TDK. I am a careful user but I would not expect the others members of my family to be nearly as physically respectful.
Even if you have managed to switch on anti-aliasing, you may not see any difference. Many of the fonts used by programmes and the WM are non-aliased types. Many Adobe fonts do not display antialiased for example. You will have to go looking around for configuration options to change fonts. The URW and Xft fonts are good.
Snakeoil is the name of the game but does this facility have any upsides? Music (big subject) has a lot of angles for different people and somebody will end up not being able to live without this.
The big market is the home wannabees and the semi-pro hotel type bands who play every night. We cover players with strong feelings are not amongst the big spenders. The hotel bands and touring machines might well welcome this as it means (even) shorter set up times. Although setting up time is mostly decided by the equipment tonnage and the size of the drum kit. I can't quite see a rock guitarist on stage with an RJ45 though. This is not a plug designed for repeated insertion. Guitar changes with a tramsmitter... poor stage hands get enough grief with cables designed for stage use.
Studio music may well use it, especially if it gives a sound which is a bit different. Novelty is important and in the studio and anything that works is Kosher. Somebodies do plug their guitars straight into the desk, but then they play loudly in the control room or studio with some good loudpeakers or through an amp (which is also miked up). Everthing gets tried in the studio.
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Continuing with the house analogy... Users don't have to build, they just stay there and fix the little bugs that are still around. I see no point in moving. KDE4 is just too slow on the hardware at my disposal. So folks who want to stay on the Kubuntu bandwagon but like KDE3, https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Karmic . If it ain't broke.... although many programmer may refer to KDE3 as baroque..
Yes he does. Its a ID3v2.3 tag with iTunes info. The only thing missing is the artist name.
Correct! Where do people have a surround set-up? -In the lounge.
How do you get mass use of surround encoded material? -On shiny flat disks or via a broadcast media.
Dolby understood this a long time ago and that is why they outmanouvered the MPEG2 camp to make AC-3 the only mandatory codec on DVD.
They also shot themselves in the foot by allowing a maximum bitrate which was not enough to encode multichannel audio... The AC-3 codec is nowadays as good as DTS encoding but the DTS track is the only one with enough bits...
Back to point of the article. Pro users have been suckered into using Dolby-E which is a high bandwidth AC-3, framed at video frame rates and packed into 16 bits of a digital audio signal so that it may be recorded on any digital VTR or server. Transport of 5.1 is not an issue as digital video can have 16x20bit audio channels embedded. The issue has been storage. Thomson owns Grass Valley and Philips and they make video servers. They also do not want to pay Ray...
The english word for 'besteck' is cutlery.
I have been using CD-RW for the last two years as a portable hard disk between different computers. The first one died after 3 or four months but I wasn't very careful with the handling. The next one is still in use and I treat it very carefully. There may be differences in media, the first was a MORE, the second, a TDK. I am a careful user but I would not expect the others members of my family to be nearly as physically respectful.
Even if you have managed to switch on anti-aliasing, you may not see any difference. Many of the fonts used by programmes and the WM are non-aliased types. Many Adobe fonts do not display antialiased for example. You will have to go looking around for configuration options to change fonts. The URW and Xft fonts are good.
I didn't realise that Spidey had a donkey. The colloquial for rectum is spelt ARSE.
Snakeoil is the name of the game but does this facility have any upsides? Music (big subject) has a lot of angles for different people and somebody will end up not being able to live without this.
The big market is the home wannabees and the semi-pro hotel type bands who play every night. We cover players with strong feelings are not amongst the big spenders. The hotel bands and touring machines might well welcome this as it means (even) shorter set up times. Although setting up time is mostly decided by the equipment tonnage and the size of the drum kit. I can't quite see a rock guitarist on stage with an RJ45 though. This is not a plug designed for repeated insertion. Guitar changes with a tramsmitter... poor stage hands get enough grief with cables designed for stage use.
Studio music may well use it, especially if it gives a sound which is a bit different. Novelty is important and in the studio and anything that works is Kosher. Somebodies do plug their guitars straight into the desk, but then they play loudly in the control room or studio with some good loudpeakers or through an amp (which is also miked up). Everthing gets tried in the studio.