This was a cool thing until the the piece was altered because of the new owner being consumed with his own vanity. The entire coolness factor of this piece was in the piece itself. It is now lost forever. What a maroon.
I didn't know that Arnold J. Rimmer really was alive and well.
So, I've read through a lot of the posts here and RTFA. One poster made an excellent suggestion. That suggestion would be to try to get the artists themselves behind this to an end that would hopefully return OLGA to the world.
I discovered OLGA well after I started to learn guitar and in some cases, OLGA taught me what I thought I heard was flat out WRONG!!! I've got a couple of tabs posted in OLGA and around the internet at other tab sites and there is a notice that it's my interpretation of the song. I just found it a few minutes ago.
Getting back to my point, I fully support the notion of bringing this to the attention of artists that may very well care about this issue and the lack of future learning and influence that will occur without the tab community. If any folks are interested please email me privately and we'll see if we can get together online and get something off the ground. We could draft some kind of letter and send it out to artists and groups that care about music and the learning process of music.
Some examples of contact of those that might care about this and possibly help...
Pearl Jam Queensryche Metallica (I'm going to get shot for this one) Black Label Society Ozzy Cheryl Crow Rush VH-1's Save the Music Foundation (maybe???)
I've personally had it with this attitude of "revenue through litigation". Tabs are our (read the common person's) interpretation of how we hear a song played. I miss OLGA and it's time to bring it back.
I hope to hear from some folks a maybe this can become something that gets noticed.
Has anyone looked at the crap that's been released between 1/1/07 and now?
I receive two different emails each week on what's being released for music and DVD. I have to say that I can easily see why sales are down 20%. There have been no HUGE releases so far this year. All the releases have been mediocre at best. I think I've bought 1 new release CD so far this year and it was on the VH-1 Classic label.
Oh and yes...they still need to realize that for the most part their product is just plain crap now. Big media companies need to get out of the music biz and fast. Then maybe, just maybe, we can return to the days when there was such a thing as "ARTIST DEVELOPMENT"!!! Good music will return as a result of this.
This is not fear we have. I certainly don't fear the Software Developer that has good Unix or Windows knowledge. Hell, I'll try and learn a thing or two from those folks. However, we in IT have a job to do and we're trying to do that job with a couple of things in mind.
1. Keep the Lowest Common Denominator employee productive and not constantly working on their system(s). If you're a hot shot techie at home, you have to realize that IT needs to make things work for the non-techie employees as well as you. Admin Assistants are a good example. They don't know about SysInternals or Slashdot or Linux and they don't care. They do care about office applications working then they need them for that presentation their boss (sometimes your boss) is about to give or whatever else is their important issue of the day. 2. IT is not interested in how you do things at home and telling us that's how we should do it at the office. We're running a business, we're not running your little computing playground you have setup in your house. Hell, we have them too, but those solutions are not business solutions, they are home solutions and are different solutions that employ some of the same technology. It's an apple and an orange. IT is not really interested in how you have your computers at home on a certain switch or how you do backups or you telling IT how they should setup their network and what their problem is. Personally, I'm interested in talking to you about that for stuff and comparing it to what I do in my home, but not the business I work for. 3. IT places restrictions for good of the business and so that IT can focus its energy on a limited number of products. If IT let everyone just run what they wanted on their systems, IT would be a nightmare and the company couldn't get good quality people to do the job well. Everyone has products they like and favor, even the IT people, I certainly wouldn't want to work for a company where I had to support every anti-virus software in existence or every Linux distribution because it was the whim of the person who's office the system was installed. I want to see a buisness reason for supporting multiple Linux distributions or anti-virus software. IT makes business choices based on best practices and industry leading technology products. Well, at least IT tries to do this, in most cases.
On the flipside of the coin, the company where I work now has in it's IT policy that checking your personal email (Gmail, Yahooo Mail, hotmail, etc.) is not allowed. I don't get this, personally, but that's the policy and everyone scoffs at it. Also, IM is not allowed/supported, but there is a way around it that everyone uses.
Policy and practice by IT is there for the wide abuser IMHO. For example, an employee who puts 8 different firewalls, 3 anti-virus programs, and a slew of other non-work applications on his company issued laptop that has the company anti-virus and firewall. This person has the balls to call the help desk and complain that his laptop is performing like crap. Genius, uninstall 7 firewalls and two anti-virus programs and I bet your laptop performs a whole lot better.
I think everyone in any company should spend two weeks working in the company's IT group as part of orientation and I think seeing and hearing the issues first hand from that side of the fence will generate a different set of articles from this one.
This totally has to have come out of the People's Republic of Cambridge. Cambridge: The City that listens to 1000 viewpoints and satisfies them all. It's definately not the city I grew up in.
I'm actually surprised tag hasn't been reduced to that scene in The Simpsons when they were force to wear school uniforms.
"Tag.......you're it." "Now you are the one who is it."
We're headed for it folks....here it comes!!! Americans will all be 40 year old virgins soon sitting on our couches singing 'I'm an Oscar Meyer weener'.
What we need to do here to free up all these tubes is to order up a bunch of lottery balls and shoot them through the tubes at a high velocity to keep the tubes clear. Then everyone is happy.
this is just another reason why programming will continue to get pirated to the 'Net via BitTorrent (or insert newfangled filesharing technology here).
Ok, hold on a second here. Let's be accurate about something. Anything, and I mean ANYTHING that is shown over the ABC airwaves that is recorded and shared via the internet IS NOT piracy. Over the air television, HD or analog, is free for the taking.
You didn't say in your post that it had to be free software, so....
Check out the products from a company called Stellant (http://www.stellent.com).
I've used their document management product (then called Expedio I believe). It was a good experience using the software. The Expedio product was not listed on their website however. I guessing they've changed the name or the application.
It's fully web based, runs on *NIX & Windows.
Some of the great things about it are:
- Document version control
- Fully Web based (you can email someone a URL and the click will always get you the
latest version of the document.
- All documents viewed via weblinks are in PDF.
- There is security built into the application. For example; An IT department would
have two sets of documents. FAQ's and processes (outward facing) as part of an
intranet (you just put the URL to the document collection on your intranet page).
Internal procedures and instructions for internal IT staff only (inward facing).
This was a very elegant piece of software and I recommend it highly based on my experience with it from 3 years ago.
I have nothing to do with the company. I just think it's a good product.
This is how much Hollywood has an effect on the pointy haired class...
I once worked for a company that had such a high level of holy wars over what a good email system was that an Email Steering Committee was formed of about 27 throughout the company. The non IT members of this committee submitted features that they would like to see in a potential email system for the company.
One request was: "I'd like us to purchase the email system featured in the movie 'Disclosure'."
If the labels would take all the cash they're dumping into anti-piracy crap and funnel those funds into the realm of "artist development"(gone the way of the dinosaur), maybe consumers would feel we were getting good product for their hard earned cash that was worthy enough to purchase.
The major record labels now are going to raise the cost of a music CD to match the cost of computer gaming software.
They're justification: Well, you're not purchasing music anymore. Now you're purchasing a software package. We feel that it is only fair that consumers pay a fair market price for that software.
Yep, this is where I have issue with paying my hard earned dollar for a piece of inferior quality product.
I paid the same price for the Lost Season 1 DVD set as one would on iTunes and I get to enjoy the video at full quality on my TV, my PCs, my Laptop, etc. I also have my TiVo should I desire to go that route for PC/laptop viewing of network programming.
I get the whole iPod thing for music, but I really don't understand why someone would want to view a television program on that little screen. I would equate it to someone paying iTunes for 64 bit encoded audio. It just doesn't make sense.
It's going to become a media religious war simmilar to the war over widescreen letterbox and 3:4 Pan and Scan video releases.
Maybe I just answered my own question, but hey, it's your money. Do people really care about having this stuff with them on the go that much that they'd satisfy the video quality to that level, or is it that we've become a society that has a zero attention span and we can't ride a train, plane, or automobile without being in our own little world with our headphones on? Personally, I think it's peoples way of not having to deal with other people.
Did everyone see that movie "Demolition Man"? Look out folks, we're heading there. Start practicing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song.
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Attention all Marketing personnel, from this day forth it will be required that all Marketers must read the novel "Life, The Universe, and Everything" by Douglas Adams. This is required reading in hopes that you'll all gain an understanding that yes, we WILL do this to you someday unless you stop acting like complete morons when it comes to forbidding language.
I also do understand there are resources that need to remain available, but if an application is just sitting idle overnight on a server, why not shut the server down at night and bring it up in the morning? This functionality could be built into server Lights Out technology that exists today.
I think one day it *will* come to that, given the current state of mind of the world.
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Didn't we do something similar to the Taliban involving telemarketers after 9/11?
...and let's not forget those cell phone users that need to scream how important they are and let us all know it.
This was a cool thing until the the piece was altered because of the new owner being consumed with his own vanity. The entire coolness factor of this piece was in the piece itself. It is now lost forever. What a maroon.
I didn't know that Arnold J. Rimmer really was alive and well.
So, I've read through a lot of the posts here and RTFA. One poster made an excellent suggestion. That suggestion would be to try to get the artists themselves behind this to an end that would hopefully return OLGA to the world.
I discovered OLGA well after I started to learn guitar and in some cases, OLGA taught me what I thought I heard was flat out WRONG!!! I've got a couple of tabs posted in OLGA and around the internet at other tab sites and there is a notice that it's my interpretation of the song. I just found it a few minutes ago.
Getting back to my point, I fully support the notion of bringing this to the attention of artists that may very well care about this issue and the lack of future learning and influence that will occur without the tab community. If any folks are interested please email me privately and we'll see if we can get together online and get something off the ground. We could draft some kind of letter and send it out to artists and groups that care about music and the learning process of music.
Some examples of contact of those that might care about this and possibly help...
Pearl Jam
Queensryche
Metallica (I'm going to get shot for this one)
Black Label Society
Ozzy
Cheryl Crow
Rush
VH-1's Save the Music Foundation (maybe???)
I've personally had it with this attitude of "revenue through litigation". Tabs are our (read the common person's) interpretation of how we hear a song played. I miss OLGA and it's time to bring it back.
I hope to hear from some folks a maybe this can become something that gets noticed.
After reading the word "yawn" a couple of times in the headline blurb. I actually yawned. Now I have yawned while typing this.
Has anyone looked at the crap that's been released between 1/1/07 and now?
I receive two different emails each week on what's being released for music and DVD. I have to say that I can easily see why sales are down 20%. There have been no HUGE releases so far this year. All the releases have been mediocre at best. I think I've bought 1 new release CD so far this year and it was on the VH-1 Classic label.
Oh and yes...they still need to realize that for the most part their product is just plain crap now. Big media companies need to get out of the music biz and fast. Then maybe, just maybe, we can return to the days when there was such a thing as "ARTIST DEVELOPMENT"!!! Good music will return as a result of this.
...and there is much rejoicing.
Oh, I totally like this idea!!! It's nice to know the BOFH still survives in some areas. :)
This is not fear we have. I certainly don't fear the Software Developer that has good Unix or Windows knowledge. Hell, I'll try and learn a thing or two from those folks. However, we in IT have a job to do and we're trying to do that job with a couple of things in mind.
1. Keep the Lowest Common Denominator employee productive and not constantly working on their system(s). If you're a hot shot techie at home, you have to realize that IT needs to make things work for the non-techie employees as well as you. Admin Assistants are a good example. They don't know about SysInternals or Slashdot or Linux and they don't care. They do care about office applications working then they need them for that presentation their boss (sometimes your boss) is about to give or whatever else is their important issue of the day.
2. IT is not interested in how you do things at home and telling us that's how we should do it at the office. We're running a business, we're not running your little computing playground you have setup in your house. Hell, we have them too, but those solutions are not business solutions, they are home solutions and are different solutions that employ some of the same technology. It's an apple and an orange. IT is not really interested in how you have your computers at home on a certain switch or how you do backups or you telling IT how they should setup their network and what their problem is. Personally, I'm interested in talking to you about that for stuff and comparing it to what I do in my home, but not the business I work for.
3. IT places restrictions for good of the business and so that IT can focus its energy on a limited number of products. If IT let everyone just run what they wanted on their systems, IT would be a nightmare and the company couldn't get good quality people to do the job well. Everyone has products they like and favor, even the IT people, I certainly wouldn't want to work for a company where I had to support every anti-virus software in existence or every Linux distribution because it was the whim of the person who's office the system was installed. I want to see a buisness reason for supporting multiple Linux distributions or anti-virus software. IT makes business choices based on best practices and industry leading technology products. Well, at least IT tries to do this, in most cases.
On the flipside of the coin, the company where I work now has in it's IT policy that checking your personal email (Gmail, Yahooo Mail, hotmail, etc.) is not allowed. I don't get this, personally, but that's the policy and everyone scoffs at it. Also, IM is not allowed/supported, but there is a way around it that everyone uses.
Policy and practice by IT is there for the wide abuser IMHO. For example, an employee who puts 8 different firewalls, 3 anti-virus programs, and a slew of other non-work applications on his company issued laptop that has the company anti-virus and firewall. This person has the balls to call the help desk and complain that his laptop is performing like crap. Genius, uninstall 7 firewalls and two anti-virus programs and I bet your laptop performs a whole lot better.
I think everyone in any company should spend two weeks working in the company's IT group as part of orientation and I think seeing and hearing the issues first hand from that side of the fence will generate a different set of articles from this one.
"John Spartan you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute."
- Demolition Man
This totally has to have come out of the People's Republic of Cambridge. Cambridge: The City that listens to 1000 viewpoints and satisfies them all. It's definately not the city I grew up in.
I'm actually surprised tag hasn't been reduced to that scene in The Simpsons when they were force to wear school uniforms.
"Tag.......you're it."
"Now you are the one who is it."
We're headed for it folks....here it comes!!! Americans will all be 40 year old virgins soon sitting on our couches singing 'I'm an Oscar Meyer weener'.
WHAT NEXT!!!!!!!?????????!!!!!!!
What we need to do here to free up all these tubes is to order up a bunch of lottery balls and shoot them through the tubes at a high velocity to keep the tubes clear. Then everyone is happy.
:)
I'm shocked that no one has thought of this.
this is just another reason why programming will continue to get pirated to the 'Net via BitTorrent (or insert newfangled filesharing technology here).
Ok, hold on a second here. Let's be accurate about something. Anything, and I mean ANYTHING that is shown over the ABC airwaves that is recorded and shared via the internet IS NOT piracy. Over the air television, HD or analog, is free for the taking.
You didn't say in your post that it had to be free software, so....
Check out the products from a company called Stellant (http://www.stellent.com).
I've used their document management product (then called Expedio I believe). It was a good experience using the software. The Expedio product was not listed on their website
however. I guessing they've changed the name or the application.
It's fully web based, runs on *NIX & Windows.
Some of the great things about it are:
- Document version control
- Fully Web based (you can email someone a URL and the click will always get you the
latest version of the document.
- All documents viewed via weblinks are in PDF.
- There is security built into the application. For example; An IT department would
have two sets of documents. FAQ's and processes (outward facing) as part of an
intranet (you just put the URL to the document collection on your intranet page).
Internal procedures and instructions for internal IT staff only (inward facing).
This was a very elegant piece of software and I recommend it highly based on my experience
with it from 3 years ago.
I have nothing to do with the company. I just think it's a good product.
This is how much Hollywood has an effect on the pointy haired class...
I once worked for a company that had such a high level of holy wars over what a good email system was that an Email Steering Committee was formed of about 27 throughout the company. The non IT members of this committee submitted features that they would like to see in a potential email system for the company.
One request was: "I'd like us to purchase the email system featured in the movie 'Disclosure'."
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This is old hat.
The site is /.ed already. Is there a record on the fastest speed of a /.ed site?
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Anyone remember that?
/.-ed already. :(
If the labels would take all the cash they're dumping into
anti-piracy crap and funnel those funds into the realm of
"artist development"(gone the way of the dinosaur), maybe
consumers would feel we were getting good product for their
hard earned cash that was worthy enough to purchase.
Gee, what a concept.
The major record labels now are going to raise the cost of a music CD
to match the cost of computer gaming software.
They're justification: Well, you're not purchasing music anymore. Now
you're purchasing a software package. We feel that it is only fair
that consumers pay a fair market price for that software.
Yep, this is where I have issue with paying my hard earned dollar for a piece of inferior quality product.
I paid the same price for the Lost Season 1 DVD set as one would on iTunes and I get to enjoy the video at full quality on my TV, my PCs, my Laptop, etc. I also have my TiVo should I desire to go that route for PC/laptop viewing of network programming.
I get the whole iPod thing for music, but I really don't understand why someone would want to view a television program on that little screen. I would equate it to someone paying iTunes for 64 bit encoded audio. It just doesn't make sense.
It's going to become a media religious war simmilar to the war over widescreen letterbox and 3:4 Pan and Scan video releases.
Maybe I just answered my own question, but hey, it's your money. Do people really care about having this stuff with them on the go that much that they'd satisfy the video quality to that level, or is it that we've become a society that has a zero attention span and we can't ride a train, plane, or automobile without being in our own little world with our headphones on? Personally, I think it's peoples way of not having to deal with other people.
Did everyone see that movie "Demolition Man"? Look out folks, we're heading there. Start practicing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song.
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NBA Finals, March Madness, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four
Superbowl, Wild Card Weekend, AFC Championship Game, NFC Championship Game, Half Time Show, Vince Lombardi Trophy
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MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, NCAA, MLS, PBA, PGA
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Attention all Marketing personnel, from this day forth it will be required that all Marketers must read the novel "Life, The Universe, and Everything" by Douglas Adams. This is required reading in hopes that you'll all gain an understanding that yes, we WILL do this to you someday unless you stop acting like complete morons when it comes to forbidding language.
Since "These predictions belong exclusively to Microsoft's CEO"...
Maybe he should consider filing for yet another useless patent.
That is exactly what I meant.
I also do understand there are resources that need to remain available, but if an application is just sitting idle overnight on a server, why not shut the server down at night and bring it up in the morning? This functionality could be built into server Lights Out technology that exists today.
I think one day it *will* come to that, given the current state of mind of the world.