Work hard to make sure that CDs using intrusive and possibly illegal DRM are the ones MOST ACTIVELY distributed via P2P.
This should be done not because "information wants to be free", but rather because businesses who engage in these sorts of practices should be made to fail financially.
When the labels have their annual shareholders luncheon and are forced to show the fancy Powerpoint presentation entitled "Effectiveness of DRM Solutions at Limiting Piracy", the graphs should be embarrassingly skewed in the wrong direction.
The only thing that works is money. So make sure they, and the band, see none.
"The band?! Surely you can't be serious?! They're probably just innocent victims." Bullshit. No one forced them to sign away their souls like whores. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Sony and all others of their kind are customer hostile. Take your music elsewhere. Because that's what I'm doing with my money. And if you're only in it for the money, then you don't get to have any.
Yeah, that'd be a good one if it weren't false. Strangely, it's the one EVERYONE chooses to cite when they've got a burning desire to "debunk evolution".
Read more books. Post less rhetoric. Look less dumb. There's simply no excuse for this crap in 2005. The resources are freely at your disposal to learn how this stuff works. So what's the point of having an opinion about it prior to doing so?
Frankly, I could care less if kids in Asscrack, KS have to deal with a sticker on their textbooks warning them of potentially contentious science within. The smart ones will see through the nonsense (possibly with the help of smart family members) and the stupid ones will stay stupid. No great loss either way. Complex societies benefit from stupid kids growing up to be stupid adults - someone's gotta do the cleaning, the gas pumping, the infantry duty, and it certainly shouldn't be smart people. Education isn't the problem.
The REAL danger is that, by changing the public perception of the value of real science, it makes it that much easier for fake science to take its place. We're seeing this happen on a regular basis, as the heads of important "scientific" advisory bodies are actually just pulled directly from industry, PhDs in unrelated fields wielded mightily to reinforce non-existant credentials.
Want less regulation on pollution? Appoint EPA "scientists" who are actually just businessmen. Want limits on reproductive freedom? Get testimonials from "scientists" who are actually just clergymen.
They don't say "less market intervention" and "freedom to earn," they say "smaller government" and "freedom." Saying one thing while doing another is the very definition of hypocrisy.
Of course it's hypocritical. But if that's really the world view you hold, then you can't really come out and say that. Who's going to go along? You lose the entire flyover/hick voter base, and you're left with nothing except the predatory millionaire class.
It's not blatantly lying - it's just using potent, ambiguous words because clear and concise ones will leave your position in the gutter where it belongs.
Of course, and I don't either. But if you can see it through the eyes of the Right, you'll realize why they can talk all that "freedom" talk without looking like they're lying - because they're NOT lying.
It's not about you and me. It's about GM and Microsoft.
Vote? You don't get to vote for much more than your student council president. Everything more important is decided outside of the electoral process entirely.
Parent is correct in principle, of course. But it's important to understand that the Republican notions of "smaller government" and "freedom" only have to do with government's relationship with BUSINESS, not with individuals.
"Smaller government" means "less market intervention" and "freedom" only refers to freedom to earn.
Someone's going to mark this as flamebait or troll, but it's not a value judgement. It's just the way things are. In fact, once this is clear you realize that there's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about the Right's message at all.
Anyone who has ever played in a professional ensemble knows that a rehearsed orchestra can conduct itself almost flawlessly.
Provided that the music being played is strictly metronomic and from the common practice period. In fact, anything later than say, middle period Beethoven would be a disaster without a conductor.
The problem is that music in the High Classical period and after started to use rubato, fermatas, and numerous tempo changes. 80+ people on stage simply can't coordinate that without a leader.
And we're just talking about rhythm - this says nothing about balance issues in the hall, etc.
I'm not a math guy. At all. So forgive me if this is dumb or not the right idea. But why not just use a sensitive microphone listening to the ambience in a room to "seed" some sort of algorithm?
"Reason is used by scoring professionals? It doesn't even have a score editor, for cryin' out loud."
Your comment is, quite simply, silly. Why would a score editor be necessary if you weren't working with live musicians? The trick to film scoring is SPEED. If you're just sequencing, there's zero need for a paper score.
Please name one professional who uses Reason for orchestral arrangements.
Using Reason for orchestral arrangements would probably be silly, since it's not an orchestra. But I was talking about film scoring.
"How did this get marked informative? DAT is compressed too! 320mbit MPEG Layer-II, I think?"
Just a guess, but it may have been marked informative because it contained information that was factually correct. This is the fundamental way in which it differed from your post, which was in error.
From the DAT-heads FAQ )http://www.minidisc.org/dat-heads-faq.html):
{74} Is digital audio a form of data compression?
This is a another common misconception about digital audio. Digital audio actually requires much greater bandwidth than analog audio. But it can be stored more compactly because the digital format has far greater immunity to noise. Some new digital audio systems such as DCC perform lossy data compression on the digital signal to lower the bandwidth, making it more economical to store. But CD and DAT use a brute force approach with no compression.
"Propellorhead is great for hobbiests and tinkerers, but it's not professional stuff. the sound quality just isn't there.. and it's very restictive."
At the risk of sounding like a real jerk, do you KNOW any professional electronic musicians? I think you'd be surprised to find how many artists on well-respected labels worldwide are using Reason for their projects. I know several who don't use anything else and they're selling records out the wazoo.
Furthermore, Reason 2.0 shipped with a massive 24-bit orchestral sample library. Why? Because one of the biggest user groups is TV and film scoring professionals who wanted higher quality orchestral sounds.
So, sorry if you don't like it. But your claim that it's for "hobbiests and tinkerers" is silly when it has a massive user base of $-earning professionals.
Capitalism doesn't work any better than communism/socialism. That's why all of the countries that "work" have hybrid systems that combine the best (ideally) of both ideologies.
In Europe, you get nationalized health care. But you also get your choice of wine.
In the US, you get your choice of wine. But you also get tax-funded roads and schools.
Ignore the die-hard flag wavers. They know about as much about socioeconomics as they do about diet and exercise.
Says Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties, 'I think banners have seen their day. They're not as compelling as they once were.' In contrast, he describes paid listings as 'kind of a next evolution of the yellow pages.'"
Says every thinking internet user, "I think Ask Jeeves has seen its day. It's not as compelling as it once...er, wait...it was actually never compelling at all." In contrast, users describe other search engines as being "kind of the only logical choice, unless you're really into images of butlers for some reason."
The composer of the score, Michael Gordon, is one of my favorite living American composers, and this film is the perfect vehicle for his fascinating, gritty music.
For more info on him and his new music organization Bang On A Can, see their site here.
The soundtrack to the film is available from Cantaloupe, a very interesting label for contemporary music.
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Work hard to make sure that CDs using intrusive and possibly illegal DRM are the ones MOST ACTIVELY distributed via P2P.
This should be done not because "information wants to be free", but rather because businesses who engage in these sorts of practices should be made to fail financially.
When the labels have their annual shareholders luncheon and are forced to show the fancy Powerpoint presentation entitled "Effectiveness of DRM Solutions at Limiting Piracy", the graphs should be embarrassingly skewed in the wrong direction.
The only thing that works is money. So make sure they, and the band, see none.
"The band?! Surely you can't be serious?! They're probably just innocent victims." Bullshit. No one forced them to sign away their souls like whores. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Sony and all others of their kind are customer hostile. Take your music elsewhere. Because that's what I'm doing with my money. And if you're only in it for the money, then you don't get to have any.
"Transitional fossils."
h tml
Yeah, that'd be a good one if it weren't false. Strangely, it's the one EVERYONE chooses to cite when they've got a burning desire to "debunk evolution".
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.
Read more books. Post less rhetoric. Look less dumb. There's simply no excuse for this crap in 2005. The resources are freely at your disposal to learn how this stuff works. So what's the point of having an opinion about it prior to doing so?
Name one.
That's not at all what science is about. Review "scientific method". Rinse. Repeat.
Frankly, I could care less if kids in Asscrack, KS have to deal with a sticker on their textbooks warning them of potentially contentious science within. The smart ones will see through the nonsense (possibly with the help of smart family members) and the stupid ones will stay stupid. No great loss either way. Complex societies benefit from stupid kids growing up to be stupid adults - someone's gotta do the cleaning, the gas pumping, the infantry duty, and it certainly shouldn't be smart people. Education isn't the problem.
The REAL danger is that, by changing the public perception of the value of real science, it makes it that much easier for fake science to take its place. We're seeing this happen on a regular basis, as the heads of important "scientific" advisory bodies are actually just pulled directly from industry, PhDs in unrelated fields wielded mightily to reinforce non-existant credentials.
Want less regulation on pollution? Appoint EPA "scientists" who are actually just businessmen.
Want limits on reproductive freedom? Get testimonials from "scientists" who are actually just clergymen.
They don't say "less market intervention" and "freedom to earn," they say "smaller government" and "freedom." Saying one thing while doing another is the very definition of hypocrisy.
Of course it's hypocritical. But if that's really the world view you hold, then you can't really come out and say that. Who's going to go along? You lose the entire flyover/hick voter base, and you're left with nothing except the predatory millionaire class.
It's not blatantly lying - it's just using potent, ambiguous words because clear and concise ones will leave your position in the gutter where it belongs.
Of course, and I don't either. But if you can see it through the eyes of the Right, you'll realize why they can talk all that "freedom" talk without looking like they're lying - because they're NOT lying.
It's not about you and me. It's about GM and Microsoft.
It's not meant to protect against terrorism. It's meant to keep track of you.
There's no "war on terror". It's just a really convenient way of making you do what you're told.
Vote? You don't get to vote for much more than your student council president. Everything more important is decided outside of the electoral process entirely.
Parent is correct in principle, of course. But it's important to understand that the Republican notions of "smaller government" and "freedom" only have to do with government's relationship with BUSINESS, not with individuals.
"Smaller government" means "less market intervention" and "freedom" only refers to freedom to earn.
Someone's going to mark this as flamebait or troll, but it's not a value judgement. It's just the way things are. In fact, once this is clear you realize that there's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about the Right's message at all.
"using models to decide policy was a bad idea"
Is it a worse idea than using religion? How about public opinion polls? Corporate donations?
Models may be flawed, but at least they're something with a basis in science. The alternatives...?
As soon as there's even an ounce of scientific evidence for it that isn't sponsored by right-wing industry-aligned think tanks.
On the other hand, lots of people "accept" what you're claiming anyway. And a few of them probably even finished high school. But not many.
Provided that the music being played is strictly metronomic and from the common practice period. In fact, anything later than say, middle period Beethoven would be a disaster without a conductor.
The problem is that music in the High Classical period and after started to use rubato, fermatas, and numerous tempo changes. 80+ people on stage simply can't coordinate that without a leader.
And we're just talking about rhythm - this says nothing about balance issues in the hall, etc.
Subject line says it all, really.
That's pretty effective copy protection. It seems to have managed to distribute the tracks via P2P prior to the CD's actual release date.
I wonder if they paid the developers extra for that.
I'm not a math guy. At all.
So forgive me if this is dumb or not the right idea.
But why not just use a sensitive microphone listening to the ambience in a room to "seed" some sort of algorithm?
Forgive me. I forgot about Audacity.
But where are the multi track sequencers? Softsynths? Effects units? Mastering processors? Notation programs?
And yes, I know there ARE apps that do these things. But they don't do them very well. At all. By any standard.
Or, at best, only ones that are in perpetual beta.
At least some people are writing working drivers for the high-end audio cards now (Hammerfall DSP). But where are the apps?
Yes, I know about Ardour. And it's still beta too.
"Reason is used by scoring professionals? It doesn't even have a score editor, for cryin' out loud."
Your comment is, quite simply, silly.
Why would a score editor be necessary if you weren't working with live musicians?
The trick to film scoring is SPEED. If you're just sequencing, there's zero need for a paper score.
Please name one professional who uses Reason for orchestral arrangements.
Using Reason for orchestral arrangements would probably be silly, since it's not an orchestra. But I was talking about film scoring.
"How did this get marked informative? DAT is compressed too! 320mbit MPEG Layer-II, I think?"
Just a guess, but it may have been marked informative because it contained information that was factually correct. This is the fundamental way in which it differed from your post, which was in error.
From the DAT-heads FAQ )http://www.minidisc.org/dat-heads-faq.html):
{74} Is digital audio a form of data compression?
This is a another common misconception about digital audio. Digital audio actually requires much greater bandwidth than analog audio. But it can be stored more compactly because the digital format has far greater immunity to noise. Some new digital audio systems such as DCC perform lossy data compression on the digital signal to lower the bandwidth, making it more economical to store. But CD and DAT use a brute force approach with no compression.
"Propellorhead is great for hobbiests and tinkerers, but it's not professional stuff. the sound quality just isn't there.. and it's very restictive."
At the risk of sounding like a real jerk, do you KNOW any professional electronic musicians?
I think you'd be surprised to find how many artists on well-respected labels worldwide are using Reason for their projects. I know several who don't use anything else and they're selling records out the wazoo.
Furthermore, Reason 2.0 shipped with a massive 24-bit orchestral sample library. Why? Because one of the biggest user groups is TV and film scoring professionals who wanted higher quality orchestral sounds.
So, sorry if you don't like it. But your claim that it's for "hobbiests and tinkerers" is silly when it has a massive user base of $-earning professionals.
Minidisk uses ATRAC compression, however, so it's not the same quality as DAT for example, which can record at CD quality (16 bit, 44.1 kHz.)
This PDA solution appears to provide high-quality sampling rates/bit depth without relying on compression.
Capitalism doesn't work any better than communism/socialism. That's why all of the countries that "work" have hybrid systems that combine the best (ideally) of both ideologies.
In Europe, you get nationalized health care. But you also get your choice of wine.
In the US, you get your choice of wine. But you also get tax-funded roads and schools.
Ignore the die-hard flag wavers. They know about as much about socioeconomics as they do about diet and exercise.
Says Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties, 'I think banners have seen their day. They're not as compelling as they once were.' In contrast, he describes paid listings as 'kind of a next evolution of the yellow pages.'"
Says every thinking internet user, "I think Ask Jeeves has seen its day. It's not as compelling as it once...er, wait...it was actually never compelling at all." In contrast, users describe other search engines as being "kind of the only logical choice, unless you're really into images of butlers for some reason."
Glad to see this film get some props on Slashdot.
The composer of the score, Michael Gordon, is one of my favorite living American composers, and this film is the perfect vehicle for his fascinating, gritty music.
For more info on him and his new music organization Bang On A Can, see their site here.
The soundtrack to the film is available from Cantaloupe, a very interesting label for contemporary music.
"The corporations don't count the votes"
Except for this one and this one and this one.
Flamebait?
What, you think I'm making this stuff up?
Here:
Election Systems and Software
and an article about them
Who is Voter News Service?
Votescam
Is this all a bunch of conspiracy theory nonsense? Maybe. But then who IS counting the votes?
Show me.