Your friend is fortunate, indeed. Lots of money and free time.
Yup. He definitely has more money than brains...and he's really smart.
His computer room was designed with custom built-in shelving for his cd collection. He'll often have more than one Mac ripping at a time. Seems pretty tedious to me, but he has more free time than I do, so what the hell. When he's not ripping, he's digitizing his vinyl, using Peak with the fairly awesome Waves Restoration plugins.
I'm trying to convince him to go with RAID 5 for the music collection, because when a drive goes down right now, months of ripping are lost. And a drive did fail once, but when it did he decided to make the move to AAC anyway (from MP3) so he would have had to start over regardless.
A good friend of mine has a CD collection now in excess of 10,000 cds. If he likes an artist from the one or two songs he hears, he buys the cd. If he likes that album as a whole he buys their entire catalog. He is in the process of ripping all of his cds. Last I checked he was up to "M" (between Madness and Madonna). He has never listened to some discs at all, but once he gets them categorized into a genre and puts the ipod on shuffle, her hears a lot of music that he would not otherwise hear. My points is, 20,000 songs that one hasn't heard is not at all unrealistic, even for someone who pays for their music.
His next planned purchase is an Xserve RAID. I believe he is over half a terabyte now in ripped music and is looking for a better way to manage it all. And he is very eager for Apple to release a bigger ipod. Right not he has three that he uses regularly, with different subsets of songs on each.
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been unable to connect to my 2000 shares since I upgraded to panther. It gives me a message that the item could not be found or something, but your tip works perfectly. I had grown tired of going to the Windows machines to connect to my Mac when I needed to exchange files.
Who says OS updates shouldn't be posted to slashdot? The discussion that they generate always seems to be helpful to many people.
What juridiction is this guy in? In my state, small claims court does not allow attorneys. You can still go to civil court for similar amounts and use an attorney, but not small claims. I can't imagine Apple going to court without an attorney. The usual tactic for big companies is to get the case moved to circuit court. This involves months of waiting to get on the docket and can be quite expensive. This story, if true, would be very odd.
Give the bookmark a keyword such as "gis". Now, when you type "gis foo" into the address bar, it goes to this URL, replacing the "%s" in the URL with "foo".
Tell me, when you use "gis," do you pronounce it with a hard "g" or a soft "g"? (The fact that it is an image search with safe search off tells me how *I* would pronounce it.)
Reminds me of when I was in high school on one of those academic challenge shows (college bowl type thing). We had to guess what three things had in common. The host reads "The Birds, The Frogs, The Clouds." I buzz in and answer "Sixties rock bands?"
He says "No, but good guess. It is plays by Aristophanes. Plays by Aristophanes."
I have to disagree here. When I first saw the XBox controllers, I though they looked pretty big. After using the S version for a while however, I found it to be extremely comfortable. Perhaps it is because I have large-ish hands, but I always found that my hands hurt after prolonged playing on the PS2...the dual shock was just too small. The size of the xbox s controller seems just right to me.
Don't need any third-party tool. Just drag your MIDI files into the iTunes Library (literally), then select the newly added song and convert to AIFF. Finally drag this new version of the song as a new track to GarageBand. Mind you, all the MIDI information is lost in the process, so make sure you're satisfied with it.
Doing it that way gives you crappy sounding aiff files that you can't do much with in garageband. Using Dent du Midi gives you individual files with the seperate instrument tracks like a real midi file...you can then change instruments and even edit individual notes in Garageband. The two methods don't even compare. Dent du Midi involves a few more steps, but makes a world of difference.
Well, to repost what I posted in another topic concerning the PATRIOT act, don't just bitch about it, do something. Encourage your congressperson to support the SAFE act. It seeks to correct some of the more egregious PATRIOT act violations.
Details and an easy way to send a fax to your congressperson here
This post brought to you by a proud card carrying member of the ACLU.
I have to disagree with this assessment. Perhaps she was using an older operating system, but in our office, the Macs play well with others out of the box.
When I plug a new Mac in, it automatically grabs an IP from our CISCO firewall, allowing us to get in the 'net with no configuration. Print Center allows us to select and print to any of the printers in our office (all HP), and the network browser sees and mounts our Win 2000 file server (which does not have Mac services installed). We do have wireless in the office, but we use Apple Airports for that, so I can't speak on ease of use with other AP's. All machines have MS Office installed and exchange files seamlessly. In short, we have zero compatibility issues.
This may seem a touch off topic, but if you are interested in helping fix some of the problems introduced by the PATRIOT act, you should urge your congressperson to support the SAFE act. Details and an easy way to send a fax to your congressperson here
what *really* is the purpose of software designed to replace humans going to be used for besides... replacing humans?
That's exactly what it is supposed to do. You see, they found that singing was the one job performed by a human that was not well suited to outsourcing to India. Think Apu sings The Doors.
This doesn't exactly fit your criteria (as they were no doubt an RIAA member band) but at least as of last year the Violent Femmes self-titled release was the only album to ever go platinum (or was it double platinum) without ever cracking the Billboard Top 100.
This just furthers your point...without marketing you don't get radio spins, without spins you don't sell albums. They were an exception to the rule.
That album, by the way, is still one of the best ever. I think it may still be required listening for incoming college freshman.
In order to help get the word out on this great project, my friend and I are beginning a total conversion mod for UT of the Seattle Children's Hospital.
Oh wait, apparently he was just joking and I am, in fact, an asshole.
Looks like someone just added IRAQ to all of the exsiting links. It's obviously some sort of search/replace/copy function. Go look for yourself, I found this one:
This is just more proof of the reducing costs of producing professional quality audio, and more evidence of price fixing and extortion of the major record labels.
Insightful? Insightful? How is the fact that production costs are coming down evidence of extortion? Furthermore, studio costs are merely one part of the expense of an album. You still need a competent producer, you still need marketing, you still have to pay the lawyers, agents, radio stations (!), and possibly even the artists. Not to mention distribution, manufacturing, and senator purchasing. The money saved from production costs represents a very small percentage of the overall cost.
I'm not sure exactly how this publication chose their name, but in investment circles, a Red Herring is the name of the early version of a prospectus that a company puts out to gauge investor interest and reaction before taking a company public.
"The most incisive critique of games journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I should know, being a games 'journalist' myself."
Well then, this is my critique of a game journalist: Always preview before submitting. Sentence structure is important.
the US Supreme Court denied his appeal, with the notion that obscenity is a state-level affair, despite the First Amendment being a Federal law
Free speech is a federal issue, however the USSC decided in 1973 that the determination of obscentiy is a test in part based on community standards. The court does not seem to be ignoring this issue as much as they are referring back to their previous ruling.
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Your friend is fortunate, indeed. Lots of money and free time.
Yup. He definitely has more money than brains...and he's really smart.
His computer room was designed with custom built-in shelving for his cd collection. He'll often have more than one Mac ripping at a time. Seems pretty tedious to me, but he has more free time than I do, so what the hell. When he's not ripping, he's digitizing his vinyl, using Peak with the fairly awesome Waves Restoration plugins.
I'm trying to convince him to go with RAID 5 for the music collection, because when a drive goes down right now, months of ripping are lost. And a drive did fail once, but when it did he decided to make the move to AAC anyway (from MP3) so he would have had to start over regardless.
A good friend of mine has a CD collection now in excess of 10,000 cds. If he likes an artist from the one or two songs he hears, he buys the cd. If he likes that album as a whole he buys their entire catalog. He is in the process of ripping all of his cds. Last I checked he was up to "M" (between Madness and Madonna). He has never listened to some discs at all, but once he gets them categorized into a genre and puts the ipod on shuffle, her hears a lot of music that he would not otherwise hear. My points is, 20,000 songs that one hasn't heard is not at all unrealistic, even for someone who pays for their music.
His next planned purchase is an Xserve RAID. I believe he is over half a terabyte now in ripped music and is looking for a better way to manage it all. And he is very eager for Apple to release a bigger ipod. Right not he has three that he uses regularly, with different subsets of songs on each.
And below the Netscape servers?
You guessed it. Turtles. All the way down.
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been unable to connect to my 2000 shares since I upgraded to panther. It gives me a message that the item could not be found or something, but your tip works perfectly. I had grown tired of going to the Windows machines to connect to my Mac when I needed to exchange files.
Who says OS updates shouldn't be posted to slashdot? The discussion that they generate always seems to be helpful to many people.
Perhaps you think you're joking, but the fact is, we don't need oil to make Haliburton rich off of this. Read this
...a new, original joke. Now imagine another one, because that last one wasn't that funny.
In fact, maybe you just aren't that funny. Except in Soviet Russia.
Shit, now I'm doing it.
What juridiction is this guy in? In my state, small claims court does not allow attorneys. You can still go to civil court for similar amounts and use an attorney, but not small claims. I can't imagine Apple going to court without an attorney. The usual tactic for big companies is to get the case moved to circuit court. This involves months of waiting to get on the docket and can be quite expensive. This story, if true, would be very odd.
Give the bookmark a keyword such as "gis". Now, when you type "gis foo" into the address bar, it goes to this URL, replacing the "%s" in the URL with "foo".
Tell me, when you use "gis," do you pronounce it with a hard "g" or a soft "g"? (The fact that it is an image search with safe search off tells me how *I* would pronounce it.)
Reminds me of when I was in high school on one of those academic challenge shows (college bowl type thing). We had to guess what three things had in common. The host reads "The Birds, The Frogs, The Clouds." I buzz in and answer "Sixties rock bands?"
He says "No, but good guess. It is plays by Aristophanes. Plays by Aristophanes."
Now I will never forget.
I have to disagree here. When I first saw the XBox controllers, I though they looked pretty big. After using the S version for a while however, I found it to be extremely comfortable. Perhaps it is because I have large-ish hands, but I always found that my hands hurt after prolonged playing on the PS2...the dual shock was just too small. The size of the xbox s controller seems just right to me.
Don't need any third-party tool. Just drag your MIDI files into the iTunes Library (literally), then select the newly added song and convert to AIFF. Finally drag this new version of the song as a new track to GarageBand. Mind you, all the MIDI information is lost in the process, so make sure you're satisfied with it.
Doing it that way gives you crappy sounding aiff files that you can't do much with in garageband. Using Dent du Midi gives you individual files with the seperate instrument tracks like a real midi file...you can then change instruments and even edit individual notes in Garageband. The two methods don't even compare. Dent du Midi involves a few more steps, but makes a world of difference.
Well, to repost what I posted in another topic concerning the PATRIOT act, don't just bitch about it, do something. Encourage your congressperson to support the SAFE act. It seeks to correct some of the more egregious PATRIOT act violations.
Details and an easy way to send a fax to your congressperson here
This post brought to you by a proud card carrying member of the ACLU.
I don't normally reply with attaboy type posts, but this is definitely the funniest post I have seen on here in quite some time.
Bravo.
I have to disagree with this assessment. Perhaps she was using an older operating system, but in our office, the Macs play well with others out of the box.
When I plug a new Mac in, it automatically grabs an IP from our CISCO firewall, allowing us to get in the 'net with no configuration. Print Center allows us to select and print to any of the printers in our office (all HP), and the network browser sees and mounts our Win 2000 file server (which does not have Mac services installed). We do have wireless in the office, but we use Apple Airports for that, so I can't speak on ease of use with other AP's. All machines have MS Office installed and exchange files seamlessly. In short, we have zero compatibility issues.
This may seem a touch off topic, but if you are interested in helping fix some of the problems introduced by the PATRIOT act, you should urge your congressperson to support the SAFE act. Details and an easy way to send a fax to your congressperson here
Actually, according to Apple it weighs just less than 40 pounds. Still a lot, but not as much as you suggest.
what *really* is the purpose of software designed to replace humans going to be used for besides... replacing humans?
That's exactly what it is supposed to do. You see, they found that singing was the one job performed by a human that was not well suited to outsourcing to India. Think Apu sings The Doors.
This doesn't exactly fit your criteria (as they were no doubt an RIAA member band) but at least as of last year the Violent Femmes self-titled release was the only album to ever go platinum (or was it double platinum) without ever cracking the Billboard Top 100.
This just furthers your point...without marketing you don't get radio spins, without spins you don't sell albums. They were an exception to the rule.
That album, by the way, is still one of the best ever. I think it may still be required listening for incoming college freshman.
Actually, it leaves the man at a much slower speed. 128mph is the speed it leaves the woman's mouth.
Cheers.
In order to help get the word out on this great project, my friend and I are beginning a total conversion mod for UT of the Seattle Children's Hospital.
Oh wait, apparently he was just joking and I am, in fact, an asshole.
Looks like someone just added IRAQ to all of the exsiting links. It's obviously some sort of search/replace/copy function. Go look for yourself, I found this one:
/firstlady/recipes/iraq
Disallow:
Soylent Green is Iraqi people!
This is just more proof of the reducing costs of producing professional quality audio, and more evidence of price fixing and extortion of the major record labels.
Insightful? Insightful? How is the fact that production costs are coming down evidence of extortion? Furthermore, studio costs are merely one part of the expense of an album. You still need a competent producer, you still need marketing, you still have to pay the lawyers, agents, radio stations (!), and possibly even the artists. Not to mention distribution, manufacturing, and senator purchasing. The money saved from production costs represents a very small percentage of the overall cost.
I'm not sure exactly how this publication chose their name, but in investment circles, a Red Herring is the name of the early version of a prospectus that a company puts out to gauge investor interest and reaction before taking a company public.
"The most incisive critique of games journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I should know, being a games 'journalist' myself."
Well then, this is my critique of a game journalist: Always preview before submitting. Sentence structure is important.
the US Supreme Court denied his appeal, with the notion that obscenity is a state-level affair, despite the First Amendment being a Federal law
Free speech is a federal issue, however the USSC decided in 1973 that the determination of obscentiy is a test in part based on community standards.
The court does not seem to be ignoring this issue as much as they are referring back to their previous ruling.