I agree actually, live musicians always sound better, because there is emotion in their work. But DP and Machfive are still cheaper, given that studio musicians cost 80-300 an hour. For TV it doesn't matter much, because music is shunned to the background. Also, the computer can hold a beat far better then most drummers.
I have a great amount of respect for Armand (an African Jazz vocalist, or Mike (a guitarist). They do things I could never do even on a computer. They make amazing music that can either stand on its own or be a part of something I creat on the computer.
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Ouch.
But you are mostly correct unfortunately. Most Discovery/TLC programs use library or "needle drop" music. It is susually pretty crappy. The studio I work at writes new music for shows, and taylors it to scenes. There is a cymbal crash when "Dr. Brady" gets bitten by a viper. A bowed gong plays when the rodent gets squeezed to death by an Anaconda. This is a simplification, but it is all possible with computers, instead of a 1,000 dollar gong. But yes, most TV music is utter crap. I will shut up about now...
Most TV music is without vocals yes, but we just did a show with quite a few African vocals, if you are curious. These pop up fairly often, especially now that Liberia is a hot spot in world affairs.
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I write music and produce for TV series. I have never had to use a musician. Ever. My boss uses live performers occasionally for shows that might win Emmys. I use Machfive and Digital Performer 4.1. Samplers, especially the 300 dollar Machfive platform/plugin have eliminated the need for live artists in my business. Hell, I will be recording a rap (bleh) artist soon, and the only live recording will be his vocals. The rest will be sampled.
Your time is coming to an end, but I will say that synths and samplers don't match live studio musicians...yet. Vocalists are still safe, at least until Apple fixes their Speech voices.
The sound studio I work at would love cheap fiber. DSL is not avaliable, the cable company wants 3000 to run cable, and fractional T1 is expensive. Perhaps if fiber becomes arrives, it would be a viable alternative to courior services.
Well, you are sort of insightful, Darl IS going for broke. I feel for those stock holders, but do any of the large brokerages have SCOX shares that I can short against?
#0 USD an hour in silicon valley will get you a sublet room and a 2 decent meals a day, but only if you don't drive. If you do, then live in your car, its the only affordable way.
Uhm...Most trucks use failsafe pneumatic systems I think...like on trains. The effect would be much worse. The brakes would completely lock up and cause a jack-knifing or somesuch action.
Hmm....yeah, current laws. Just wait until they start including an EULA with digital TV products...
Then they will want a "talk back" (thats what I heard it called) authentication scheme, like Intuit used and Windows XP requires. You mod the hardware and disconnect it from a phone line, and the FCC comes knocking...scary thought
I tested the cables, and have read that FAQ. I have a feeling the motherboards in the G4s went bad when hotswapping. Someone probably didn't ground themselves...
I work at a small sound studio. We use macs for their stability and simplicity. I had been trying to figure out what to do with the 4 dead WD Caviar 30gig drives, 5 dead Maxtor 80 and 160 gig drives, and 4 dead Que! CD-RWs. They are all external firewire devices. After getting no where with Maxtor or Apple, and not being able to pinpoint the failure to a single G4 or circumstance, I took apart the damn things.
ALL the drives were still perfectly good. The firewire bridges were bad. ALL the drives were advertised as hot-swappable. Almost all of the brideges died during, or after a hot-swap procedure. Indigita, a bridge company, has been gracious enough to test some stuff for us.
I suspect that the problem isn't just with panther or bridge firmware. I think there is a problem with the mac firewire interface generally, expecially when hot swapping.
How robust is this? I hope they are using QNX or VxWorks. I do think that a GUI could eliminate some errors and make training easier.
an application:Centrifuge. One company evaluating a GUI has a significant stake in the centrifuge market. Its design teams' core competencies are motors and speed control.
As the centrifuge spins too fast and destroys the samples. Maybe destrying DNA evidence and getting a death row inmate killed.
Newly available technology enables medical device manufacturers to avoid additional costs and design complexity without sacrificing time to market
Are they more worried about medical safety or time-to market?
How about life plus 20, so that an artist's/author's creative works can support children through college?
Beyond that, it is indeed unbalenced. What is it now? all books published since 1923 are still protected? Well, I guess Anatole France was a popular author after all....
I agree. People should get up, turn off the TV and computer and clean. Maybe they should go outside too.
Alas, what is my grandmother to do though? She has arthiritis (spelling, I know) and vacuuming would be difficult. She told the housekeeper to come once a month, instead of bi-weekly, and bought a Roomba. It saved her some money.
Most of the article is no-shit, no-brainer stuff, but a quote interested me:
"The momentum is unstoppable at this point," said Scott Handy, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM.
I think this is what scares Redmond the most, is the momentum and speed with which Linux is spreading. Major companies are likely to follow suite (no pun intended) if the goverment starts to switch.
And some foreign governments seem eager not to be dependent on an American company.
Aside from starting the sentance with "and", this is another good point, with a growing mistrust of the US abroad, many foreign governments are likely to adopt open-sourced alternatives. The is that cost factor too. Namibia defineatly cannot afford $300,000 in MS software to run the already poor and corrupt goverment. The can afford two people to impliment Linux though.
"Politically, there are only pros, but in terms of government employee productivity there are quite a few cons," said Schadler, the Forrester researcher.
I must agree on some levels. Until my iMac and AOL grandomther can use Linux, it won't be widely implimented. Not everyone "gets" technology, or has a BS in comp sci, or even knows the difference between AOL and the internet.
Because if i want to learn lightwave (about 2000) or Maya (about 10,000 with renderfarm support) or Digital Performer (about 700) or perhaps learn them all, I can get a crappy, crippled educationl version sometimes. My alternative as a poor student, for learning these applications is pirating them. Otherwise I would never be able to learn, and later buy them. The software vendors do check to make sure companies producing things with their products have licenses. There is no way for me to learn this software without pirating it or taking a bullshit, slow-paced class at college, which also happens to cost money that I don't have.
My MOTU MachFive dongle from iLok has a loop for a keychain or lanyard. It could be easly attached to a security badge, just like those wireless RSA? laptop security transmiters.
To tangent: I don't like dongles, but they serve their purpose, and far better then some authorization method involving an internet connection. I know people who refuse to connect workstations to the internet because they A-don't want to deal with security and B-have already deleted all things internet so they can store a few more minutes of audio or another frame of a Lightwave project on a local disk.
The iLok dongle system supports multiple authorisations...I don't know much about them though, having to only use one.
I have seen tons of people do what you describe, myself included. Buy the legit version for the support (and ethics if that's your thing) and use a superior pirated version.
With all due respect, if I had to write the software that i use every day, i would be broke. Not all of us have time. I have to make a living. I agree, use open source when possible.
I would gladly use open-source if there were an equivelent to MOTU's MachFive and Digital Performer. While a DP equivelent exists in Audacity and something else, it is not complex enough for my work.
To tangent, every musician should get ahold of the Bosendorfer piano sample set included with MachFive. It's the most amazing thing I have ever heard.
National Geographic is developing a channel. It is on satillite TV and a few cable networks. The Explorer TV show currently on MSNBC will be moved in about a year to another network or the Channel.
National Geographic uses a three-source rule when determining factual accuracy. They might be a decent science channel eventually. Currently their programming is slanted towards human-interest and natural history, but they are looking to expand.
We might already have our science channel in the making...if they decide not to try and imitate the Discovery networks.
Disclaimer: I work for a company that does a plurality of its' contract work with National Geo.
well, you see, its like this...Myself and some friends from UC Berkeley, MIT, and McGill up north used the nice wide OC and Tx connections at our school...for a DDoS
Just kidding. I actually bombed 555 South Federal Highway, suite 450 Boca Raton Florida.
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I agree actually, live musicians always sound better, because there is emotion in their work. But DP and Machfive are still cheaper, given that studio musicians cost 80-300 an hour. For TV it doesn't matter much, because music is shunned to the background. Also, the computer can hold a beat far better then most drummers.
I have a great amount of respect for Armand (an African Jazz vocalist, or Mike (a guitarist). They do things I could never do even on a computer. They make amazing music that can either stand on its own or be a part of something I creat on the computer.
Ouch.
But you are mostly correct unfortunately. Most Discovery/TLC programs use library or "needle drop" music. It is susually pretty crappy. The studio I work at writes new music for shows, and taylors it to scenes. There is a cymbal crash when "Dr. Brady" gets bitten by a viper. A bowed gong plays when the rodent gets squeezed to death by an Anaconda. This is a simplification, but it is all possible with computers, instead of a 1,000 dollar gong. But yes, most TV music is utter crap. I will shut up about now...
Most TV music is without vocals yes, but we just did a show with quite a few African vocals, if you are curious. These pop up fairly often, especially now that Liberia is a hot spot in world affairs.
I write music and produce for TV series. I have never had to use a musician. Ever. My boss uses live performers occasionally for shows that might win Emmys. I use Machfive and Digital Performer 4.1. Samplers, especially the 300 dollar Machfive platform/plugin have eliminated the need for live artists in my business. Hell, I will be recording a rap (bleh) artist soon, and the only live recording will be his vocals. The rest will be sampled.
Your time is coming to an end, but I will say that synths and samplers don't match live studio musicians...yet. Vocalists are still safe, at least until Apple fixes their Speech voices.
The sound studio I work at would love cheap fiber. DSL is not avaliable, the cable company wants 3000 to run cable, and fractional T1 is expensive. Perhaps if fiber becomes arrives, it would be a viable alternative to courior services.
Well, you are sort of insightful, Darl IS going for broke. I feel for those stock holders, but do any of the large brokerages have SCOX shares that I can short against?
HAIL the day that SCOX becomes SCOX.OB
#0 USD an hour in silicon valley will get you a sublet room and a 2 decent meals a day, but only if you don't drive. If you do, then live in your car, its the only affordable way.
I am only half joking.
Uhm...Most trucks use failsafe pneumatic systems I think...like on trains. The effect would be much worse. The brakes would completely lock up and cause a jack-knifing or somesuch action.
Law? I think it is an FCC mandate, not a law, as congress has yet to touch it. But just wait...
Hmm....yeah, current laws. Just wait until they start including an EULA with digital TV products...
Then they will want a "talk back" (thats what I heard it called) authentication scheme, like Intuit used and Windows XP requires. You mod the hardware and disconnect it from a phone line, and the FCC comes knocking...scary thought
I tested the cables, and have read that FAQ. I have a feeling the motherboards in the G4s went bad when hotswapping. Someone probably didn't ground themselves...
I work at a small sound studio. We use macs for their stability and simplicity. I had been trying to figure out what to do with the 4 dead WD Caviar 30gig drives, 5 dead Maxtor 80 and 160 gig drives, and 4 dead Que! CD-RWs. They are all external firewire devices. After getting no where with Maxtor or Apple, and not being able to pinpoint the failure to a single G4 or circumstance, I took apart the damn things.
ALL the drives were still perfectly good. The firewire bridges were bad. ALL the drives were advertised as hot-swappable. Almost all of the brideges died during, or after a hot-swap procedure. Indigita, a bridge company, has been gracious enough to test some stuff for us.
I suspect that the problem isn't just with panther or bridge firmware. I think there is a problem with the mac firewire interface generally, expecially when hot swapping.
How robust is this? I hope they are using QNX or VxWorks. I do think that a GUI could eliminate some errors and make training easier.
an application:Centrifuge. One company evaluating a GUI has a significant stake in the centrifuge market. Its design teams' core competencies are motors and speed control.
As the centrifuge spins too fast and destroys the samples. Maybe destrying DNA evidence and getting a death row inmate killed.
Newly available technology enables medical device manufacturers to avoid additional costs and design complexity without sacrificing time to market
Are they more worried about medical safety or time-to market?
How about life plus 20, so that an artist's/author's creative works can support children through college?
Beyond that, it is indeed unbalenced. What is it now? all books published since 1923 are still protected? Well, I guess Anatole France was a popular author after all....
I agree. People should get up, turn off the TV and computer and clean. Maybe they should go outside too.
Alas, what is my grandmother to do though? She has arthiritis (spelling, I know) and vacuuming would be difficult. She told the housekeeper to come once a month, instead of bi-weekly, and bought a Roomba. It saved her some money.
I guess the crux of the matter is: Can she load Linux, and then administer (use) it effectively?
Absolutely not. That will be the day that Linux will see widespread adoption.
Most of the article is no-shit, no-brainer stuff, but a quote interested me: "The momentum is unstoppable at this point," said Scott Handy, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM. I think this is what scares Redmond the most, is the momentum and speed with which Linux is spreading. Major companies are likely to follow suite (no pun intended) if the goverment starts to switch. And some foreign governments seem eager not to be dependent on an American company. Aside from starting the sentance with "and", this is another good point, with a growing mistrust of the US abroad, many foreign governments are likely to adopt open-sourced alternatives. The is that cost factor too. Namibia defineatly cannot afford $300,000 in MS software to run the already poor and corrupt goverment. The can afford two people to impliment Linux though. "Politically, there are only pros, but in terms of government employee productivity there are quite a few cons," said Schadler, the Forrester researcher. I must agree on some levels. Until my iMac and AOL grandomther can use Linux, it won't be widely implimented. Not everyone "gets" technology, or has a BS in comp sci, or even knows the difference between AOL and the internet.
Because if i want to learn lightwave (about 2000) or Maya (about 10,000 with renderfarm support) or Digital Performer (about 700) or perhaps learn them all, I can get a crappy, crippled educationl version sometimes. My alternative as a poor student, for learning these applications is pirating them. Otherwise I would never be able to learn, and later buy them. The software vendors do check to make sure companies producing things with their products have licenses. There is no way for me to learn this software without pirating it or taking a bullshit, slow-paced class at college, which also happens to cost money that I don't have.
My MOTU MachFive dongle from iLok has a loop for a keychain or lanyard. It could be easly attached to a security badge, just like those wireless RSA? laptop security transmiters.
To tangent: I don't like dongles, but they serve their purpose, and far better then some authorization method involving an internet connection. I know people who refuse to connect workstations to the internet because they A-don't want to deal with security and B-have already deleted all things internet so they can store a few more minutes of audio or another frame of a Lightwave project on a local disk.
The iLok dongle system supports multiple authorisations...I don't know much about them though, having to only use one.
I have seen tons of people do what you describe, myself included. Buy the legit version for the support (and ethics if that's your thing) and use a superior pirated version.
With all due respect, if I had to write the software that i use every day, i would be broke. Not all of us have time. I have to make a living. I agree, use open source when possible.
I would gladly use open-source if there were an equivelent to MOTU's MachFive and Digital Performer. While a DP equivelent exists in Audacity and something else, it is not complex enough for my work.
To tangent, every musician should get ahold of the Bosendorfer piano sample set included with MachFive. It's the most amazing thing I have ever heard.
National Geographic is developing a channel. It is on satillite TV and a few cable networks. The Explorer TV show currently on MSNBC will be moved in about a year to another network or the Channel.
National Geographic uses a three-source rule when determining factual accuracy. They might be a decent science channel eventually. Currently their programming is slanted towards human-interest and natural history, but they are looking to expand.
We might already have our science channel in the making...if they decide not to try and imitate the Discovery networks.
Disclaimer: I work for a company that does a plurality of its' contract work with National Geo.
Spammers WILL spam any address. They spammed the DA's office in some state where spam was banned. It was in some slashdot article a while ago.
Spammers either don't know how, or are too lazy to search their 50 million + address databases for a specific domain.
But I agree, I would like a spamhaus.org addy, it would work well for intimidating spammers...
well, you see, its like this...Myself and some friends from UC Berkeley, MIT, and McGill up north used the nice wide OC and Tx connections at our school...for a DDoS
Just kidding. I actually bombed 555 South Federal Highway, suite 450 Boca Raton Florida.
True...I was thinking of the "Quicktime MIDI synthesizer" the mac equivalent.
As an interesting side, Apple once looked at developing the protocol into a full-fledged OS...but the 80s were crazy times...