You could do this with something smaller then a SIKORSKY CH-54/64 skycrane. You probably don't need 20,000 pounds of popcorn... Although, now that you mention it, the chopper is used in firefighting, so one could dump red flame retardant all over the house...
Rents for about 1,700 USD an hour wet and manned, plus location charges.
Another OT factoid: He has been to more military funerals than any other major politician. I think he has been to almost every single funeral of an Oregon service member killed in Iraq.
I agree. Forget copy protection, just wait for some pissed off underpaid assistant engineer to release a bootleg ripped from the studio masters. Or maybe, the engineer gives a copy to a friend who then uploads it...
We use raw AIFF in the studio where I work, and it is easy to bump it down to an mp3. I could even do it right now...go grab one of the glyph disks, plug it in, open the project, export the mastered stereo track to mp3, open my favorite GNUtella client...
Luckly, I love my job, and the artists we work with. The point is, copy protection is meaningless. The only thing that will keep music from being pirated is a change in business models and a change in how people view music. Record companies have screwed everyone from the customer to the musician. When we do an album here at the studio, it is decent, high quality music, because we love the music, not the money. Hopefully, people will like the music enough to pay for it, instead of pirating it.
Cubase was an Atari program, I was refering to Nuendo. Nuendo was developed for a quad proccessor IRIX system. Steinberg did all the development and some of the beta on Octanes, only to later port it to Windows, which pissed off many Mac users. Since then, Steinberg has always been a Windows first, Mac second developer.
Cubase has Atari roots, yes, I admit it, i was wrong...
I have used Cubase, Nuendo, Protools, Logic and Reason. They all suck as sequencers when compared to Digital Performer. VST on the mac is now pointless, since all the *cool* kids are using Audio Units. Look up the synth packages. MachFive, Kompakt and Intakt are all AU plugs.
Steinberg originally developed for Windows (actually IRIX, but that's a long story), and has not done a good job porting things to the mac.
But if you are comfortable with Cubase, go for it, after all, only the end product matters.
Thanks for setting me straight. I'm glad you got to use the taxi ways, instead of a cutting torch. Soft-field ops aren't too bad. I fly sailplanes mainly in Nevada, and dirt runways are standard. Fun stuff:)
I'm glad you posted. I had no idea they changed the airspace designation after Meigs was closed. Hopefully Friends of Meigs and the rest of Chicago will have their airport back eventually.
I would also reccomend installing a pedal lock and taking the battery inside at night (or the alternator cable). A hidden cutout switch could also work. Install a switch for the fuel pump below the shift boot or something. The problem is, clubs are easy to break through. (see above post)
A motion detector triggered assult weapon would be legal as long as A)you install it after the ban expires and B) you paint the gun bright orange and post a sign explaining that it will shoot anyone who sets off the motion detector.
I know this is probably illegal, but what IS legal?
It is based on the everything2.com code. Socially however, the site is without a clear identity. It is being beta tested for the next little bit as the coding is finished.
I usually link to something in my sig that interests me. For a while it was e2, before that, the sound studio I work at, etc.
If you want a C2 account, you might try emailing Dann, the 'owner'. He is open to new members. His website is http://doulopolis.net/ Email containted therein.
The destruction of that airfield was fully illegal. It was done with bulldozers in the middle of the night. It was done in the name of "Homeland Security". I think Daley is just an asshole. On top of that, by destroying the runways, he destroyed emergency/alternate landing locations for aircraft with problems.
Mayor Daley might have kileld people. The fire department's Helicopter squad was based at Meigs. When it was moved, it upped the response time to the lake by 10 minutes. In April? 2004, they were too late in rescuing people off the lake.
There ware about 15 planes stranded at the field. It costs a LOT of money to have a $250,000 Piper disassembled, shipped, re-assembled and then have the airframe re-certified. Anyone in the AOPA/EAA/ General Aviation community will turn red and rant for hours when one goes and mentions Meigs or Daley.
Anyway, like the parent post, anyone with such bad judgement should never be alowwed to make important decisions.
"Fucker" is not a good description. "Murderer" might be more accurate.
In the Columbia gorge, the big high-speed internet provider uses a wireless solution. I don't know if directional microwave is acceptable, but they might be worth looking at:
We had a series of firewire bridge failures with Maxtor and Western Digital drives (about 10 failures). The actual drives were still perfectly good. Is it just the bridges on the LaCie drives? or is it the actual internal IDE/ATA drive?
Also, does LaCie make its own drives, or are they Seagates or something with different stickers? I worry, because my boss just bought one of those terabyte drives...
I also work in a recording studio, we are on a MOTU/Mac platform. It is easier to just do then ask permission. What I told my boss, who is also a creature of habit:
"IE is a piece of shit and has security problems. I'm installing another browser."
"But...my bookmarks"
"Your bookmarks will be there"
"Uhm...Ok"
No apologies, just do. If there is arguement, print out some Windows IE bug reports and pretend they affect the Mac. Highlight those phrases like 'critical', 'data corruption' and 'complete data loss'. I don't know what you charge per session-hour (probably around $50-70), but your boss would probably hate to chance losing hundreds of dollars in recording time because of IE:)
If you want one of those nifty things with robotic arms and whatnot, plan on spending upwards of $3500. The AIT Automated Tape Library goes for that much and holds only 15 tapes. Plan on spending tens of thousands for something like Ampex's DIS 914 for 30 Terabytes.
Your friend is right: tapes or cheap. The equipment needed to support them is expensive, slow and error prone. It gets cost effective once you have enough money for a new Porsche though...
Lemme address the firewire thing: I work in a sound studio, and we generate about 5-8 gigs of data a month, mostly music for TV. This isn't a huge amount, but we rely on multiple sets of Firewire drives for backup and then internal hard drives for current projects. This means we have all 400 or so projects at our fingertips. Given how fast we do things, this is important.
Lacie makes their 1 terabyte firewire (943 gigabyte formatted) drive. I we get them for $1,080 a drive (Macmall matched Provantage's price). This is more then the article author spends now per gig, but these drives have done quite well in the studio. You can find cheaper firewire though.
We are at the point where hard drives give the best bang for the buck. The only fault of firewire is that my bosses have burned several bridges. ground yourself before unplugging the drives. The bridges were cheap though. In any case, hard drives are probably the most failsafe and cost effective solution, with firewire being the easiest interface to use those drives with.
Liquid Mass Flow Meters run upwards of $200 US in OEM bulk purchase qualities. This means that cars would be another $225 more expensive and would have another part in the gas tank/fill tube that could break and leak. It was a good idea though.
The more effective solution would be spot-checking pumps and fining stations thousands of dollars. As to pumps "catching up" at 1,2,5 and 10 gallons, just spot check with random amounts.
I'm not asking for free publicity, I just want to see the news. I want an honest breakdown of the education plan, and a comparison to the "no child left behind" act. Surley FoxNews is capable of a bulletpoint comparison.
And what about Sudan? I blame CNN AND FOX for that. Most people haven't a clue about the current genocide going on there. I picked FOX as an example, because it was an easy one, but CNN, NBC and the rest are just as guilty.
I think part of it is that they don't generate there own news, the just feed off eachother in an effort to be Neilsen whores. You're right, I probably shouldn't have singled out FoxNews.
The difference is that Fox NEWS reports are also opinion. It is not so much what they report, but what they DON'T report. No frontpage (foxnews.com) mention recently of Imperial Hubris, Farenheit 9/11's impact, or Kerry's education plan. All of these seem like important public issues, even if one disagrees with the subject matter.
CNN at least has the courtisy to differentiate between "Hard News" and opinion/spin. Fox is propaganda. Read about Joseph Goebbels:
"He who controls the medium controls the message. He who controls the message controls the masses."
Think of WMDs Iraq/Al-Queda and "porn is an evildoer":
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."
Now, think of FoxNews and the nonstop war coverage:
"...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
Joseph Goebbels deserved to burn in hell, but we, should learn something from how he used propaganda. The AP should no better then to inject any type of opinion in its syndicated pieces.
hmmm....Generally, you are correct, but it is all about context. I compose music for a living. We often imitate the temporary (scratch) music an editor laid in. I copy the mood of the piece, the style and the tempo, but nothing else if I can help it. Sometimes though, the editor is hell-bent on a certain sound. I can get away with 4 or five notes, often more, as long as it is not a blatant ripoff and they are the liable party. It is all subjective though An example with words:
"Oh Romeo, doth thy name and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all of myself."
I might change it: "Romeo: drop that last name of yours and come fuck me."
I could maybe get away with: "Oh Tyrome, deny your family; declare yourself free, and come fuck me."
As a musician, it is hard not to copy, not to realize that I have just dreged up a Led Zepplin riff from the back of my mind. Often, it is impossible not to copy to some degree. There are only so many ways to play 'something in D minor that sounds scary'.
I guess my point is: It is horribly subjective. The current standard is: If a judge/jury can discern that a riff came from a specific source (like the Simpson's theme or Close Encounters) you are screwed. I am all for letting small riffs be considered the words of music, but the issue is, where does one draw the line?
Say that to a Pilot and he will shoot you with that new TSA issued sidearm. Weather info needs to be free. Pilots, farmers, truckers, shippers, weekend bass fishermen, and the list goes on. These people all require something more then the "local news tonight".
As a pilot, I often need barometric pressures for airports a state away from where I am. My aunt needs dewpoint measurements so she can heat her orchard on frosty mornings. Weather.com, accuweather and FoxNews tonight just don't cut it. Most people wouldn't be able to afford the $100 plus a month private industry would charge for something that is now free.
Well, our taxpayer dollars are now going towards creating digital forecasts. Since I am paying for them, Shouldn't I get them for free instead of paying for them twice? If NWS/NOAA is making the raw data into a 'value added product', why should I be locked out?
The analogy doesn't extend. Companies are free to offer duplicate services. The more apt analogy would be: Microsoft owns Windows, Microsoft refuses to sell.NET stuff, except to companies that convinced MS to distribute it in a special format only to them.
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You could do this with something smaller then a SIKORSKY CH-54/64 skycrane. You probably don't need 20,000 pounds of popcorn... Although, now that you mention it, the chopper is used in firefighting, so one could dump red flame retardant all over the house...
Rents for about 1,700 USD an hour wet and manned, plus location charges.
Another OT factoid: He has been to more military funerals than any other major politician. I think he has been to almost every single funeral of an Oregon service member killed in Iraq.
oops, I mixed my bits with kHz. 32 bit seems to be the reigning top end, supported by MOTU and Digi/Protools. Sorry bout that.
Oh yeah, and Cubase supports 32 bit some of their stuff...
the 96 bit 192kHz projects eat up plentyof disk space. Imagine the hardware needed to record on 32 tracks...Protools HD cards aren't cheap...
Though, it does sound nice...
I agree. Forget copy protection, just wait for some pissed off underpaid assistant engineer to release a bootleg ripped from the studio masters. Or maybe, the engineer gives a copy to a friend who then uploads it...
We use raw AIFF in the studio where I work, and it is easy to bump it down to an mp3. I could even do it right now...go grab one of the glyph disks, plug it in, open the project, export the mastered stereo track to mp3, open my favorite GNUtella client...
Luckly, I love my job, and the artists we work with. The point is, copy protection is meaningless. The only thing that will keep music from being pirated is a change in business models and a change in how people view music. Record companies have screwed everyone from the customer to the musician. When we do an album here at the studio, it is decent, high quality music, because we love the music, not the money. Hopefully, people will like the music enough to pay for it, instead of pirating it.
someone has never been to San Francisco...or the East village.
Cubase was an Atari program, I was refering to Nuendo. Nuendo was developed for a quad proccessor IRIX system. Steinberg did all the development and some of the beta on Octanes, only to later port it to Windows, which pissed off many Mac users. Since then, Steinberg has always been a Windows first, Mac second developer.
Cubase has Atari roots, yes, I admit it, i was wrong...
I have used Cubase, Nuendo, Protools, Logic and Reason. They all suck as sequencers when compared to Digital Performer. VST on the mac is now pointless, since all the *cool* kids are using Audio Units. Look up the synth packages. MachFive, Kompakt and Intakt are all AU plugs.
Steinberg originally developed for Windows (actually IRIX, but that's a long story), and has not done a good job porting things to the mac.
But if you are comfortable with Cubase, go for it, after all, only the end product matters.
Thanks for setting me straight. I'm glad you got to use the taxi ways, instead of a cutting torch. Soft-field ops aren't too bad. I fly sailplanes mainly in Nevada, and dirt runways are standard. Fun stuff :)
I'm glad you posted. I had no idea they changed the airspace designation after Meigs was closed. Hopefully Friends of Meigs and the rest of Chicago will have their airport back eventually.
Good luck.
I would also reccomend installing a pedal lock and taking the battery inside at night (or the alternator cable). A hidden cutout switch could also work. Install a switch for the fuel pump below the shift boot or something. The problem is, clubs are easy to break through. (see above post)
Correct me if i am wrong:
A motion detector triggered assult weapon would be legal as long as A)you install it after the ban expires and B) you paint the gun bright orange and post a sign explaining that it will shoot anyone who sets off the motion detector.
I know this is probably illegal, but what IS legal?
It is based on the everything2.com code. Socially however, the site is without a clear identity. It is being beta tested for the next little bit as the coding is finished.
I usually link to something in my sig that interests me. For a while it was e2, before that, the sound studio I work at, etc.
If you want a C2 account, you might try emailing Dann, the 'owner'. He is open to new members. His website is http://doulopolis.net/
Email containted therein.
Thanks for the interest,
LRF
The destruction of that airfield was fully illegal. It was done with bulldozers in the middle of the night. It was done in the name of "Homeland Security". I think Daley is just an asshole. On top of that, by destroying the runways, he destroyed emergency/alternate landing locations for aircraft with problems.
Mayor Daley might have kileld people. The fire department's Helicopter squad was based at Meigs. When it was moved, it upped the response time to the lake by 10 minutes. In April? 2004, they were too late in rescuing people off the lake.
There ware about 15 planes stranded at the field. It costs a LOT of money to have a $250,000 Piper disassembled, shipped, re-assembled and then have the airframe re-certified. Anyone in the AOPA/EAA/ General Aviation community will turn red and rant for hours when one goes and mentions Meigs or Daley.
Anyway, like the parent post, anyone with such bad judgement should never be alowwed to make important decisions.
"Fucker" is not a good description. "Murderer" might be more accurate.
In the Columbia gorge, the big high-speed internet provider uses a wireless solution. I don't know if directional microwave is acceptable, but they might be worth looking at:
www.gorge.net
We had a series of firewire bridge failures with Maxtor and Western Digital drives (about 10 failures). The actual drives were still perfectly good. Is it just the bridges on the LaCie drives? or is it the actual internal IDE/ATA drive?
Also, does LaCie make its own drives, or are they Seagates or something with different stickers? I worry, because my boss just bought one of those terabyte drives...
I also work in a recording studio, we are on a MOTU/Mac platform. It is easier to just do then ask permission. What I told my boss, who is also a creature of habit:
:)
"IE is a piece of shit and has security problems. I'm installing another browser."
"But...my bookmarks"
"Your bookmarks will be there"
"Uhm...Ok"
No apologies, just do. If there is arguement, print out some Windows IE bug reports and pretend they affect the Mac. Highlight those phrases like 'critical', 'data corruption' and 'complete data loss'. I don't know what you charge per session-hour (probably around $50-70), but your boss would probably hate to chance losing hundreds of dollars in recording time because of IE
hard disks are good.
If you want one of those nifty things with robotic arms and whatnot, plan on spending upwards of $3500. The AIT Automated Tape Library goes for that much and holds only 15 tapes. Plan on spending tens of thousands for something like Ampex's DIS 914 for 30 Terabytes.
Your friend is right: tapes or cheap. The equipment needed to support them is expensive, slow and error prone. It gets cost effective once you have enough money for a new Porsche though...
Lemme address the firewire thing: I work in a sound studio, and we generate about 5-8 gigs of data a month, mostly music for TV. This isn't a huge amount, but we rely on multiple sets of Firewire drives for backup and then internal hard drives for current projects. This means we have all 400 or so projects at our fingertips. Given how fast we do things, this is important.
Lacie makes their 1 terabyte firewire (943 gigabyte formatted) drive. I we get them for $1,080 a drive (Macmall matched Provantage's price). This is more then the article author spends now per gig, but these drives have done quite well in the studio. You can find cheaper firewire though.
We are at the point where hard drives give the best bang for the buck. The only fault of firewire is that my bosses have burned several bridges. ground yourself before unplugging the drives. The bridges were cheap though. In any case, hard drives are probably the most failsafe and cost effective solution, with firewire being the easiest interface to use those drives with.
Liquid Mass Flow Meters run upwards of $200 US in OEM bulk purchase qualities. This means that cars would be another $225 more expensive and would have another part in the gas tank/fill tube that could break and leak. It was a good idea though.
The more effective solution would be spot-checking pumps and fining stations thousands of dollars. As to pumps "catching up" at 1,2,5 and 10 gallons, just spot check with random amounts.
I'm not asking for free publicity, I just want to see the news. I want an honest breakdown of the education plan, and a comparison to the "no child left behind" act. Surley FoxNews is capable of a bulletpoint comparison.
And what about Sudan? I blame CNN AND FOX for that. Most people haven't a clue about the current genocide going on there. I picked FOX as an example, because it was an easy one, but CNN, NBC and the rest are just as guilty.
I think part of it is that they don't generate there own news, the just feed off eachother in an effort to be Neilsen whores. You're right, I probably shouldn't have singled out FoxNews.
The difference is that Fox NEWS reports are also opinion. It is not so much what they report, but what they DON'T report. No frontpage (foxnews.com) mention recently of Imperial Hubris, Farenheit 9/11's impact, or Kerry's education plan. All of these seem like important public issues, even if one disagrees with the subject matter.
CNN at least has the courtisy to differentiate between "Hard News" and opinion/spin. Fox is propaganda. Read about Joseph Goebbels:
"He who controls the medium controls the message. He who controls the message controls the masses."
Think of WMDs Iraq/Al-Queda and "porn is an evildoer":
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."
Now, think of FoxNews and the nonstop war coverage:
"...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
Joseph Goebbels deserved to burn in hell, but we, should learn something from how he used propaganda. The AP should no better then to inject any type of opinion in its syndicated pieces.
hmmm....Generally, you are correct, but it is all about context. I compose music for a living. We often imitate the temporary (scratch) music an editor laid in. I copy the mood of the piece, the style and the tempo, but nothing else if I can help it. Sometimes though, the editor is hell-bent on a certain sound. I can get away with 4 or five notes, often more, as long as it is not a blatant ripoff and they are the liable party. It is all subjective though An example with words:
"Oh Romeo, doth thy name and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all of myself."
I might change it: "Romeo: drop that last name of yours and come fuck me."
I could maybe get away with: "Oh Tyrome, deny your family; declare yourself free, and come fuck me."
As a musician, it is hard not to copy, not to realize that I have just dreged up a Led Zepplin riff from the back of my mind. Often, it is impossible not to copy to some degree. There are only so many ways to play 'something in D minor that sounds scary'.
I guess my point is: It is horribly subjective. The current standard is: If a judge/jury can discern that a riff came from a specific source (like the Simpson's theme or Close Encounters) you are screwed. I am all for letting small riffs be considered the words of music, but the issue is, where does one draw the line?
Say that to a Pilot and he will shoot you with that new TSA issued sidearm. Weather info needs to be free. Pilots, farmers, truckers, shippers, weekend bass fishermen, and the list goes on. These people all require something more then the "local news tonight".
As a pilot, I often need barometric pressures for airports a state away from where I am. My aunt needs dewpoint measurements so she can heat her orchard on frosty mornings. Weather.com, accuweather and FoxNews tonight just don't cut it. Most people wouldn't be able to afford the $100 plus a month private industry would charge for something that is now free.
Well, our taxpayer dollars are now going towards creating digital forecasts. Since I am paying for them, Shouldn't I get them for free instead of paying for them twice? If NWS/NOAA is making the raw data into a 'value added product', why should I be locked out?
.NET stuff, except to companies that convinced MS to distribute it in a special format only to them.
The analogy doesn't extend. Companies are free to offer duplicate services. The more apt analogy would be: Microsoft owns Windows, Microsoft refuses to sell
I compose music for TV shows for a living. I can afford to work for free or very little on a limited amount of projects. email me at:
littlerubberfeet (at) yahoo (d0t) com
Otherwise, read the above post about getting students and student artists to pitch in.
In any case, good luck!