Why? Why not use headphones? How will this affect the final product? Clearly, you've never worked in a studio and tried to track and mix anything. How is that clear? You are absolutely wrong. The original shot down the potentialities of producing professional quality recordings with software, and then used exaggerations and falsehoods to make a point that did not exist.
My point is not that pro level monitors aren't better, it is that they are not required.
Why? Why not use headphones? How will this affect the final product?
Add a decent guitar/amp (about $5k)
WHAT?! Five grand for a "decent" guitar and amp? Outstanding guitars and amps can be had for less than half of that figure. Much less, in fact.
now multiply by about five for all the variations used on a typical album.
Unless you'd rather use something like a VG-8, which can produce just about any sound one would want, not to mention the fact that guitarists (real ones) usually develop their own sound, and part of that is their choice of guitar and amp, effects, strings, etc.
Add a drum kit and a lot of heads (Dave Grohl reportedly got through a set of heads per track when recording Nevermind).
Please. I can use the same set of heads for months. Of course you'll want new heads for a recording, but unless you're bashing the shit out of the drums with heavy sticks, you're not going to go through one set per song. That is just plain wasteful, and unnecessary.
This entire post is disengenuous. Most musicians use their own equipment to record by choice. Especially guitarists and bassists. Drummers will usually want to use their own snare at the very least, with cymbals a close second to being necessary. You're just trying to inflate the cost of recording. Would your suggestions be good? Sure. Would they make a palpable difference? That depends on many factors, most relating to the ability of the musicians, and not the gear used to record them.
The fact is that a talented recorder/musician CAN produce outstanding recordings using over the counter software.
"We see life as a less-than utopian user-experience. We aim to remove all question, doubt, pain, suffering, and freedom of choice from our prosepctive devotees. We feel that our God project, Diety 1.0, will present a truly enhanced life for all, the benefits of which shall be obvious. Our product will overcome."
I used this one to get going, and found it very useful. Does anyone know if the book reviewed here presents any significant benefits over the book I mentioned?
When movies start picking up several oscars, it's just a sign of that movie's popularity at the moment. The voters get all carried away with one movie and it ends up sweeping the whole show. Ridiculous.
It's even more about Harvey Weinstein buying awards. I saw a documentary called The Envelope Please which documented one year of bought and sold Oscars. In hunting for a link to include, I could not find one iota of info on the program. How surprising.
I'm wondering how you thought that the mini-series was MORE of a departure than the movie.
I'm sorry that I did not include a reference. I had just re-read the entire series prior to the first airing of the mini-series, and the differences leapt out at me at that time. I don't recall all of the deviations, else I would have included them.
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There were significant lapses in dealing with Paul, particularly with the timeline of events. Also, the dread Sardaukar were buffoons in fancy garb, to which nary a reference was made. The fact that the Emperor's control hinged on their ferocity was a vital point never made. Also, the revelation of the strength and fighting skill of the Fremen was equally important to the plot, but the mini-series portrayed them as if they were desert nomads until Paul came along and taught them the Weirding Way. They had ambushed and destroyed a Sardaukar patrol, though outnumbered, while Paul was still a child, prior to his training his Fedaykin. That was a very important moment. Paul realized that he could harness the Fremen. Desert Power and all that. These are just a couple of small points that I recall offhand, but since it has been some months, I don't remember anything else right now. Sorry for their inadequateness.
The movie was not a faithful, exact representation of the source, but it has the spirit of the thing right. These are certainly subjective points, but I see the look and feel of the film to be right on with Herbert's Arrakis. Again, not having seen the film in a while (I did watch it post Mini-series, however), I can't cite specifics.
Technically they are well done. The effects are as well done as the first miniseries, and the acting is on par with the first. If anything lacks, I'd say it was due to the books they are following rather than any problems of the production. Since I haven't read the books I can't comment on how well they follow the plot, except to say that the summaries I've seen online match the movies.
It's hard to criticize such incisive comments. I mean, you haven't read the books, but you're sure that any negative aspects of the mini-series are derived from the source rather than the production? That is unbelievably fucking stupid. And this gets modded to informative?
I can tell you what hooked me: playing Myth: The Fallen Lords, on one of the very first scenarios, I was messing around with the controls, going all over the map, and came upon a trailer at the edge of the playable area with a hick sitting in front of it, and country music streaming out. That pretty much did it. Yeah, the look, the physics, the game play all ruled (especially for the time), but Bungie's sense of humor was the kicker.
Myth, Myth2 / Myth II, and everything related to BioWare has been property of Microsoft for over 5 months!
I'm sure that's just a slip, but it's Bungie. Hasn't MS owned them for a lot longer than five months? Like a couple of years? I remember going to the Bungie online store a couple of years ago just after they were bought, and one of the guys there had a funny good-bye note, referencing being 'assimilated by the Borg.'
Okay. I swear, if I was interviewing this guy when he said that, he would have gotten punched in the face. I am one step away from pulling out my 357 and blowing the computer screen to pieces after reading that.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. Since you've gotten some negative feedback, just wanted to lend you some support.
People whom employ tactics like this are criminals. Their intent is unethical. Their view of the consequences of their actions on others is unethical. It seems almost sociopathic. The letter or the law is not the final arbiter of right and wrong, and this is a case where the law fails to stop predatory behavior.
While I use Linux and Macintosh, I use a Windows-based computer at work out of necessity. Also, one of my computers at home will probably always run some version of Windows for games.
However, with the amount of games I own, and the number of fantastic games out there that will run on 2000 and below, as well as a number of other platforms, I will NEVER go to anything beyond 2000. Screw DRM and the end of privacy.
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Except for the fact that a paper based diary allows one to enter their thoughts from anywhere with paper and pen (or pencil).
Yes, it does...if you bring it along. In any event, it is no "exception" to my preceding point. It is also more convenient in many ways to use a web-based journal...in terms of organization. I can use the date, topic, etc, and find exactly what I am looking for with one click.
In addition, the original point to which I replied attacked the notion that the original poster "didn't care who read his blog." Using the fact that a diary would be more appropriate, and therefore proved that his assertion was not true...which is ridiculous.
Further, I can type a lot faster than I write, so in that way it is also more convenient. I would guess that most people who happen to be computer-literate feel similarly about writing vs typing.
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Well, personally, I don't care if any of my readers know who I'm talking about. I really use a weblog to keep track of my state at any given time. This lets me look back and say "oh, that's what I was thinking." I mean, I don't care if I'm the only person in the world who reads my weblog.If that were true, you'd keep a diary.
Right. Except for the fact that a web-based blog allows one to enter their thoughts from anywhere with a web-browser and access to the internet, which can be quite convenient.
Have had problems all day, though it seems to be clearing up now.
Most of our issues have been problems resolving names, in fact hitting IP addresses has been possible throughout our problems.
When I called this AM I heard the automated message and left it at that. After 1pm EST, I called again, and spoke with a technician who said "the problem has been escalated from what we originally thought...our gateway routers are going down, and even after we reboot them, they go back down..." Gateway routers will put a hurtin on one's infrastructure, eh?
What you have on the line? Great. That is wonderful. Here is the deal: Expecting people out their lives on hold for YOUR interests is unreasonable. If I enjoy my work, I will work any number of hours, it won't matter. However, as soon as that becomes a mandate, it enters into the unreasonable zone. There are labor laws for a reason, and the reason is not laziness.
Your asinine deprecatory remarks about Europe are as good an indictment of your stance as anything anyone can right in response.
Americans are over-worked, period. And it is your mindset that allows this abuse to continue.
You are not entitled to expect your people to give up their lives because you have given them a job. If you are unable to manage to be productive with reasonable work hours for your staff, your management is at fault, not your people.
You are not entitled, just as an employee is not entitled to work an unproductive 40 hours. You have rights to an expectation of productivity, but if it takes more than 40 hours for a majority to meet those expectations, they are faulty.
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Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty?
The answer is simple: Indoctrination. Americans are deeply conditioned through many insidious channels, as you can see through one of the responses here.
We implemented freedom, apparently, meanwhile we seem to want to give it away.
It is ridiculous, but very scary at the same time. Those of us who do question the reduction of civil liberties are subjected to simplistic labels and cast out onto the margins.
The tenets upon which this country was founded are further and further from being practiced, and those who would be "patriotic" must sacrifice the right to think for themselves.
So when you ask such a question, think about all the other things that are accepted as conventional truths which are just as inaccurate, if not grossly moreso.
but in contrast to petty criminals and warring gangs, Internet piracy groups have a worldwide impact of at least tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
Petty criminals and warring gangs. This is too much. First of all, petty criminals have nothing in common with warring gangs. Secondly, warring gangs cause the loss of life. These pirates are harmless, in any real sense. There are no programmers or software developers that are going to be forced into homelessness or bankruptcy by their actions. They may lose money, sure, so fucking what?
This article presents an inflated dollar amount allegedly caused by these people as if it is the greatest evil in the world. If anyone wondered who is really calling the shots, this characterization should go a long way towards illumination.
This article seems very well-balanced to me...a pro-linux advocate, and avowed Microsoft hater. They make numerous positive statements about Linux, both in the server and desktop environments, e.g: citing a report that claimed 40% of 800 surveyed American and Western Eurpoean companies are either using or testing Linux.
Taco, take it easy on the picante' sauce, the temperature seems to be affecting your judgement.
Hey, I'll get modded down anyway, so what the fuck?
Further, there is scientific proof of extra-sensory perception in rare cases.
What scientific proof exists for Gods, Demons, Satan, Bugs Bunny, and Casper?
Ghosts, goblins, angels , etc etc.
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I know it's a cool Dilbert-esque thing to make fun of salesmen, but it's a rather stupid assumption to assume that salesmen are any more or less motivated by money than "Einsteins".
Everyone is motivated by money to a certain extent. For me, it is a means to an end, and nothing more. Money could never get me to relax my principles, or act as I would not normally. Looking at it in that light, and having worked both in sales and IT, I think that salepeople are far more likely to be motivated by the thought of accruing money and material things, whether it be for them personally, or for an organization.
I think this analogy is a bit of a stretch. One of the problems with a software patent is that it can broadly cover A BUSINESS PROCESS. Let's say that a composer had been granted a patent for creating symphonies as "A method to glorify God through the use of music." That patent would preclude anybody else (for a set period of time) from glorifying God through the use of music
I think the analogy is a good one. It comes down to writing code. Music is written, and there are few sequences of notes, along with time signature, etc, that have not been used before.
Therefore an analogy can be drawn to software patents being used to cover chunks of code that could be used in other applications with no impact on the rights of the onwers of the patented software (ostensibly what the patent is there to protect).
Therefore, granting patents can restrict the creation of new and creative software.
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Why? Why not use headphones? How will this affect the final product?
Clearly, you've never worked in a studio and tried to track and mix anything.
How is that clear? You are absolutely wrong. The original shot down the potentialities of producing professional quality recordings with software, and then used exaggerations and falsehoods to make a point that did not exist.
My point is not that pro level monitors aren't better, it is that they are not required.
Add perfectly matched, pro level monitors.
Why? Why not use headphones? How will this affect the final product?
Add a decent guitar/amp (about $5k)
WHAT?! Five grand for a "decent" guitar and amp? Outstanding guitars and amps can be had for less than half of that figure. Much less, in fact.
now multiply by about five for all the variations used on a typical album.
Unless you'd rather use something like a VG-8, which can produce just about any sound one would want, not to mention the fact that guitarists (real ones) usually develop their own sound, and part of that is their choice of guitar and amp, effects, strings, etc.
Add a drum kit and a lot of heads (Dave Grohl reportedly got through a set of heads per track when recording Nevermind).
Please. I can use the same set of heads for months. Of course you'll want new heads for a recording, but unless you're bashing the shit out of the drums with heavy sticks, you're not going to go through one set per song. That is just plain wasteful, and unnecessary.
This entire post is disengenuous. Most musicians use their own equipment to record by choice.
Especially guitarists and bassists. Drummers will usually want to use their own snare at the very least, with cymbals a close second to being necessary. You're just trying to inflate the cost of recording. Would your suggestions be good? Sure. Would they make a palpable difference? That depends on many factors, most relating to the ability of the musicians, and not the gear used to record them.
The fact is that a talented recorder/musician CAN produce outstanding recordings using over the counter software.
Do they actually have a snowball's chance in hell of winning any of these cases?
"A Google representative could not be immediately reached for comment."
Surely due to the gales of laughter reverberating in Google-land.
"Microsoft?! Offer a better product?!"
"We see life as a less-than utopian user-experience. We aim to remove all question, doubt, pain, suffering, and freedom of choice from our prosepctive devotees. We feel that our God project, Diety 1.0, will present a truly enhanced
life for all, the benefits of which shall be obvious. Our product will overcome."
How does this one compare to the SAMS book?
I used this one to get going, and found it very useful. Does anyone know if the book reviewed here
presents any significant benefits over the book I mentioned?
When movies start picking up several oscars, it's just a sign of that movie's popularity at the moment. The voters get all carried away with one movie and it ends up sweeping the whole show. Ridiculous.
It's even more about Harvey Weinstein buying awards. I saw a documentary called The Envelope Please which documented one year of bought and sold Oscars. In hunting for a link to include, I could not find one iota of info on the program.
How surprising.
I'm wondering how you thought that the mini-series was MORE of a departure than the movie.
I'm sorry that I did not include a reference. I had just re-read the entire series prior to the first airing of the mini-series, and the differences leapt out at me at that time. I don't recall all of the deviations, else I would have included them.
possible spoilers
There were significant lapses in dealing with Paul, particularly with the timeline of events.
Also, the dread Sardaukar were buffoons in fancy garb, to which nary a reference was made. The fact that the Emperor's control hinged on their ferocity was a vital point never made. Also, the revelation of the strength and fighting skill of the Fremen was equally important to the plot, but the mini-series portrayed them as if they were desert nomads until Paul came along and taught them the Weirding Way. They had ambushed and destroyed a Sardaukar patrol, though outnumbered, while Paul was still a child, prior to his training his Fedaykin. That was a very important moment. Paul realized that he could harness the Fremen. Desert Power and all that. These are just a couple of small points that I recall offhand, but since it has been some months, I don't remember anything else right now. Sorry for their inadequateness.
The movie was not a faithful, exact representation of the source, but it has the spirit of the thing right. These are certainly subjective points, but I see the look and feel of the film to be right on with Herbert's Arrakis. Again, not having seen the film in a while (I did watch it post Mini-series, however), I can't cite specifics.
Technically they are well done. The effects are as well done as the first miniseries, and the acting is on par with the first. If anything lacks, I'd say it was due to the books they are following rather than any problems of the production. Since I haven't read the books I can't comment on how well they follow the plot, except to say that the summaries I've seen online match the movies.
It's hard to criticize such incisive comments.
I mean, you haven't read the books, but you're sure that any negative aspects of the mini-series are derived from the source rather than the production? That is unbelievably fucking stupid.
And this gets modded to informative?
The first mini-series was far more of a departure from the book than was Lynch's movie.
I thought it was terrible through and through (apart from the deviation from the printed source, that is understandable).
I prefer to movie, but am still waiting for it to
be done right...along with LOTR.
I can tell you what hooked me: playing Myth: The Fallen Lords, on one of the very first scenarios, I was messing around with the controls, going all over the map, and came upon a trailer at the edge of the playable area with a hick sitting in front of it, and country music streaming out. That pretty much did it. Yeah, the look, the physics, the game play all ruled (especially for the time), but Bungie's sense of humor was the kicker.
I still play Marathon too.
Myth, Myth2 / Myth II, and everything related to BioWare has been property of Microsoft for over 5 months!
I'm sure that's just a slip, but it's Bungie. Hasn't MS owned them for a lot longer than five months? Like a couple of years? I remember going to the Bungie online store a couple of years ago just after they were bought, and one of the guys there had a funny good-bye note, referencing being
'assimilated by the Borg.'
Okay. I swear, if I was interviewing this guy when he said that, he would have gotten punched in the face. I am one step away from pulling out my 357 and blowing the computer screen to pieces after reading that.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. Since you've gotten some negative feedback, just wanted to lend you some support.
People whom employ tactics like this are criminals. Their intent is unethical. Their view of the consequences of their actions on others is unethical. It seems almost sociopathic. The letter or the law is not the final arbiter of right and wrong, and this is a case where the law fails to stop predatory behavior.
While I use Linux and Macintosh, I use a Windows-based computer at work out of necessity. Also, one of my computers at home will probably always run some version of Windows for games.
However, with the amount of games I own, and the number of fantastic games out there that will run on 2000 and below, as well as a number of other platforms, I will NEVER go to anything beyond 2000. Screw DRM and the end of privacy.
Except for the fact that a paper based diary allows one to enter their thoughts from anywhere with paper and pen (or pencil).
Yes, it does...if you bring it along. In any event, it is no "exception" to my preceding point. It is also more convenient in many ways to use a web-based journal...in terms of organization. I can use the date, topic, etc, and find exactly what I am looking for with one click.
In addition, the original point to which I replied attacked the notion that the original poster "didn't care who read his blog." Using the fact that a diary would be more appropriate, and therefore proved that his assertion was not true...which is ridiculous.
Further, I can type a lot faster than I write, so in that way it is also more convenient. I would guess that most people who happen to be computer-literate feel similarly about writing vs typing.
Right. Except for the fact that a web-based blog allows one to enter their thoughts from anywhere with a web-browser and access to the internet, which can be quite convenient.
Have had problems all day, though it seems to be clearing up now.
Most of our issues have been problems resolving names, in fact hitting IP addresses has been possible throughout our problems.
When I called this AM I heard the automated message and left it at that. After 1pm EST, I called again, and spoke with a technician who said "the problem has been escalated from what we originally thought...our gateway routers are going down, and even after we reboot them, they go back down..." Gateway routers will put a hurtin on one's infrastructure, eh?
What you have on the line? Great. That is wonderful. Here is the deal: Expecting people out their lives on hold for YOUR interests is unreasonable. If I enjoy my work, I will work any number of hours, it won't matter. However, as soon as that becomes a mandate, it enters into the unreasonable zone. There are labor laws for a reason, and the reason is not laziness.
Your asinine deprecatory remarks about Europe are as good an indictment of your stance as anything anyone can right in response.
Americans are over-worked, period. And it is your mindset that allows this abuse to continue.
You are not entitled to expect your people to give up their lives because you have given them a job. If you are unable to manage to be productive with reasonable work hours for your staff, your management is at fault, not your people.
You are not entitled, just as an employee is not entitled to work an unproductive 40 hours. You have rights to an expectation of productivity, but if it takes more than 40 hours for a majority to meet those expectations, they are faulty.
Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty?
The answer is simple: Indoctrination. Americans are deeply conditioned through many insidious channels, as you can see through one of the responses here.
We implemented freedom, apparently, meanwhile we seem to want to give it away.
It is ridiculous, but very scary at the same time. Those of us who do question the reduction of civil liberties are subjected to simplistic labels and cast out onto the margins.
The tenets upon which this country was founded are further and further from being practiced, and those who would be "patriotic" must sacrifice the right to think for themselves.
So when you ask such a question, think about all the other things that are accepted as conventional truths which are just as inaccurate, if not grossly moreso.
The shit is coming towards the fan.
"It's the same reason that people join gangs,"
but in contrast to petty criminals and warring gangs, Internet piracy groups have a worldwide impact of at least tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
Petty criminals and warring gangs. This is too much. First of all, petty criminals have nothing in common with warring gangs. Secondly, warring gangs cause the loss of life. These pirates are harmless, in any real sense. There are no programmers or software developers that are going to be forced into homelessness or bankruptcy by their actions. They may lose money, sure, so fucking what?
This article presents an inflated dollar amount allegedly caused by these people as if it is the greatest evil in the world. If anyone wondered who is really calling the shots, this characterization should go a long way towards illumination.
It is fucking pathetic.
This article seems very well-balanced to me...a pro-linux advocate, and avowed Microsoft hater.
They make numerous positive statements about Linux, both in the server and desktop environments, e.g: citing a report that claimed 40% of 800 surveyed American and Western Eurpoean companies are either using or testing Linux.
Taco, take it easy on the picante' sauce, the temperature seems to be affecting your judgement.
Hey, I'll get modded down anyway, so what the fuck?
Further, there is scientific proof of extra-sensory perception in rare cases.
What scientific proof exists for Gods, Demons, Satan, Bugs Bunny, and Casper?
Ghosts, goblins, angels , etc etc.
I know it's a cool Dilbert-esque thing to make fun of salesmen, but it's a rather stupid assumption to assume that salesmen are any more or less motivated by money than "Einsteins".
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Everyone is motivated by money to a certain extent. For me, it is a means to an end, and nothing more. Money could never get me to relax my principles, or act as I would not normally. Looking at it in that light, and having worked both in sales and IT, I think that salepeople are far more likely to be motivated by the thought of accruing money and material things, whether it be for them personally, or for an organization.
my
To add to that...the woman, who was elderly, merely asked McDonalds to pay for her medical bills accrued as a result of her injury. They refused.
I think this analogy is a bit of a stretch. One of the problems with a software patent is that it can broadly cover A BUSINESS PROCESS. Let's say that a composer had been granted a patent for creating symphonies as "A method to glorify God through the use of music." That patent would preclude anybody else (for a set period of time) from glorifying God through the use of music
I think the analogy is a good one. It comes down to writing code. Music is written, and there are few sequences of notes, along with time signature, etc, that have not been used before.
Therefore an analogy can be drawn to software patents being used to cover chunks of code that could be used in other applications with no impact on the rights of the onwers of the patented software (ostensibly what the patent is there to protect).
Therefore, granting patents can restrict the creation of new and creative software.