As cool as Google is, I don't need extra crap in my browser window, claiming real estate. Besides, I'm addicted to Moz's layout. I find myself clicking "Address" to go to my home page because that's where Home is in Moz. -shrugs- I've made my choice.
Yeah, but that doesn't import email, contacts, settings and take care of all the deeper registry settings (like when you activate the Address bar with your Start bar and it, by default, opens in IE).
Yeah, me too. It's got to the point where I hate browsing on my own machine when I have to use IE for whatever reason... usually because a plugin hasn't installed itself right, or something. Damn popups! Go away! Where did you come from?
...if the Beatles or Led Zeppelin don't want their music sold digitally, there's nothing a label can do about it.
You'd think so. Musicians rarely own the copyrights to their music. The publishing house own the copyrights (intelligent artists get around this by creating their own publishing houses - Faust's House, for example, is Billy Corgan('s publisher)). Unfortunately, in most recent (say, within the past ten-fifteen years) record deals, the label has subsidiarilly owned the publishing house.. so the label owns the copyright and can do whatever the fuck they want with it. More popular musicians have a little more clout with what happens, but typically, the label has the final say.
Which is one of many reasons why I don't intend to sign myself to a label.
If it lets me do what I want with the broadcasts, I certainly wouldn't mind. Haven't you ever heard of a "wireless licence". They're licences that Brits have to get if they want to listen to the radio. Pays the BBC's fees. A monthly fee to watch TV and do what I want with what I watch... Hmmm, feels like a cable bill and VCR/DVR to me. Sounds like a plan.
The web services model is actually client-server. Peer-to-peer is KaZaA, Skype and Altnet. Napster, GNUtella and SoulSeek vaguely resemble peer-to-peer, but it's really closer to a decentralised client-server model -- you download a particular file from only one person. KaZaA allows you to download a file from around 20 people at once, saving all of their upstream bandwidths and potentially getting the file to you sooner.
Will the enemy start using mirrors?
Keeping in mind that it can cut through inch-thick steel in two seconds, mirrors -- polished metal -- probably won't hold up too well.
Oh, shit, not a little bit of work..! Bear in mind that MiniDiscs do have that incredible capability of separating the audio into tracks as you record it. Most bootlegged concerts, if the bootlegger is relatively serious about bootlegging, are available online approximately the length of the concert after the concert, plus travel time back to their house.. People who are serious about MiniDisc recording can get some amazing things done with it.
Using an ingenious, revolutionary device known as a "double eighth-inch cable". Shockingly, though, it's just a piece of cable, about six feet long, with a stereo male eighth-inch jack on either end. One goes into the line out on the MiniDisc and the other goes into the line in on your computer.
2. That's why you attach a good mic.
3. Assuming you have a decent sound card and respectable software, that's not a problem.
Also keep in mind that the microcassette has the nice features of a built-in mic and speaker.
And that built-in mic picks up a lot of motor noise.
It may seem like just plugging in external accessories for these functions isn't a big deal, in practice it might make it so you don't want to use the thing.
Have you ever been interviewed -- or seen some interviewed -- for a radio broadcast? The interviewer is probably using a MiniDisc with a nice vocal field mic. So, yeah, you do want to use MiniDisc; it's the next best thing to hauling around an ADAT recorder.
...as far as field digital audio recording goes in MiniDisc. Get yourself a half-decent MD player and a nice mic with a 1/8" jack and you're good to go.
Cigarette packages have surgeon general warnings because cigarettes can cause permanent, physical damage. That shit's more addictive than heroin and it's a physical addiction. EQ is a mental addiction. You become an addict because you let yourself become an addict. Smokers are addicts because their brain needs the nicotine.
No software writer is responsible, in any sense, for it's users actions. That's like Microsoft is responsible for Blaster. They're not. Granted, if Windows was written better, it wouldn't've happened, but that doesn't mean they're responsible. The only time anyone is responsible for someone else's actions is when there is an explicit chain of command. Managers are responsible for employees' behaviour. Officers are responsible for their soldiers' behaviour. Nowhere else.
What this society needs is for people to take some fucking responsibility for their actions, but it isn't going to happen if the American Way Of Life spreads any further. I'm almost tempted to say that civil court and lawsuits should be abolished, because dumb shit like suing software companies for kids' deaths would have to stop.
Don't be so quick to think that. Age is rarely a factor.
I'm not "quick" to think that. That's an observation that developed over five years.
Try discovering and devloping this attitude. Don't think of yourself as "less than professional" -- you're doing it for money so now you are professional too! Be the best out there. Tell people you are the best.
Did it. Tried it. Doesn't always work when you're under 18.
My best advice is to not waste your time. I tried precisely the same thing for five years (Yes, five years. I started doing webdesign the year I turned 14. I just turned 19.). You know how much money I've made, gross, on it, total? Probably less than $1000. That's all. No one takes kids seriously in business. It's sad, but it's a fact. You won't make the money you want to make until you're into your mid-to-late twenties or thirties. "He's only a kid; what does he know?" You'll never hear it, but that what they'll think and that's what they'll say.
However, if you are going to try, you'll need to deal with a whole lot of red tape. Vendor's permit. Tax permits (yes, you need to charge tax). You'll have to register your business with several government bodies, make deductions on your pay... You'll be dealing with Revenue Canada/IRS on multiple levels and it's just a bad scene. Then, as someone else mentioned, you'll probably need insurance, in case you send somebody's machine to hell.
Notice that you still haven't set up a website. This is just legal bullshit you have to go through that I never did and I regret not doing. You know why I never did it? I never had the money. I said to myself, "I'll get a vendor's permit after my next contract. I'll register the business after this next contract." You know what? Never happened. Never got the contract.
The most important thing to remember is if you're going to undercut your competitors, don't undercut by very much. Competitive pricing, not psychotic pricing. In a market where the average price is $50/hr, charge... $40. It shows you're serious about business.
Something else you may have noticed -- I haven't recommended getting certifications yet. I do recommend it, but only if you can afford it. They are FUCKING expensive. I only got my CCNA because my high school offered the program. I only had to pay for the certification exam. In most places, though, you'll have to drop $6000-$10000 on the training.. and you may not even get certified.
So, I'll repeat my earlier statement -- don't waste your time. Go out and find a bullshit job, maybe work at a Future Shop or a Best Buy in the computer department, get some money, go to university and when you get out, moonlight this kind of thing until you're confident you can make a living on it. I know it sucks, but I've been there and not making money because no one takes you seriously sucks even more.
Back in the not so old days, they all used playback. Now they're forced to sing live.
Umm... did you the MTV Music Awards? TATU sang about half their song live. Britney Spears does not sing live. They lip sync, they're bad at it and no one gives a shit.
Hey, I don't care about.001-dB accuracy on my vocal tracks; I like them sounding good. Hence the using the tiniest amount of reverb when you're mastering; it gives the track a bit of presence.
And as far as people who use them "blindly" being "mystics", maybe, just maybe, it's that they've used many, shitty solid-state preamps and use tube amps exclusively because they prefer the sound. You know, experience might be it too.
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That's thoroughly tempting.
Oh, really? I remember in 98SE it didn't and I just turned it on a day or two ago in XP.
As cool as Google is, I don't need extra crap in my browser window, claiming real estate. Besides, I'm addicted to Moz's layout. I find myself clicking "Address" to go to my home page because that's where Home is in Moz. -shrugs- I've made my choice.
Yeah, but that doesn't import email, contacts, settings and take care of all the deeper registry settings (like when you activate the Address bar with your Start bar and it, by default, opens in IE).
I'm on the 1.6 alpha, thanks to keeping up with nightlies... speaking of which; that nightly's over a couple of weeks old.
Yeah, me too. It's got to the point where I hate browsing on my own machine when I have to use IE for whatever reason... usually because a plugin hasn't installed itself right, or something. Damn popups! Go away! Where did you come from?
...if the Beatles or Led Zeppelin don't want their music sold digitally, there's nothing a label can do about it.
You'd think so. Musicians rarely own the copyrights to their music. The publishing house own the copyrights (intelligent artists get around this by creating their own publishing houses - Faust's House, for example, is Billy Corgan('s publisher)). Unfortunately, in most recent (say, within the past ten-fifteen years) record deals, the label has subsidiarilly owned the publishing house.. so the label owns the copyright and can do whatever the fuck they want with it. More popular musicians have a little more clout with what happens, but typically, the label has the final say.
Which is one of many reasons why I don't intend to sign myself to a label.
If it lets me do what I want with the broadcasts, I certainly wouldn't mind. Haven't you ever heard of a "wireless licence". They're licences that Brits have to get if they want to listen to the radio. Pays the BBC's fees. A monthly fee to watch TV and do what I want with what I watch... Hmmm, feels like a cable bill and VCR/DVR to me. Sounds like a plan.
The web services model is actually client-server. Peer-to-peer is KaZaA, Skype and Altnet. Napster, GNUtella and SoulSeek vaguely resemble peer-to-peer, but it's really closer to a decentralised client-server model -- you download a particular file from only one person. KaZaA allows you to download a file from around 20 people at once, saving all of their upstream bandwidths and potentially getting the file to you sooner.
Well yeah, but that doesn't mean that the character sucked. Look at Sonic 3D. Sucked balls, but Sonic himself didn't immediately start sucking.
Because that angle's already been played once and, as I recall, was eventually shot down by the courts. A precedent's been set.
Will the enemy start using mirrors? Keeping in mind that it can cut through inch-thick steel in two seconds, mirrors -- polished metal -- probably won't hold up too well.
Ummm... it's 2 nm.
Did anyone else notice that those drums pictures are actually plastic bongos and not congas?
That PDF refers to a rack-mount MiniDisc player. I don't think portable MiniDisc players have S/PDIF outs.
Oh, shit, not a little bit of work..! Bear in mind that MiniDiscs do have that incredible capability of separating the audio into tracks as you record it. Most bootlegged concerts, if the bootlegger is relatively serious about bootlegging, are available online approximately the length of the concert after the concert, plus travel time back to their house.. People who are serious about MiniDisc recording can get some amazing things done with it.
Using an ingenious, revolutionary device known as a "double eighth-inch cable". Shockingly, though, it's just a piece of cable, about six feet long, with a stereo male eighth-inch jack on either end. One goes into the line out on the MiniDisc and the other goes into the line in on your computer.
2. That's why you attach a good mic.
3. Assuming you have a decent sound card and respectable software, that's not a problem.
Also keep in mind that the microcassette has the nice features of a built-in mic and speaker. And that built-in mic picks up a lot of motor noise.
It may seem like just plugging in external accessories for these functions isn't a big deal, in practice it might make it so you don't want to use the thing.
Have you ever been interviewed -- or seen some interviewed -- for a radio broadcast? The interviewer is probably using a MiniDisc with a nice vocal field mic. So, yeah, you do want to use MiniDisc; it's the next best thing to hauling around an ADAT recorder.
...as far as field digital audio recording goes in MiniDisc. Get yourself a half-decent MD player and a nice mic with a 1/8" jack and you're good to go.
Not trying to rehabilitate? Then why do they offer parole? Why do they have prisoners working? Why not just bind them in their cells?
Ohh, that's right. You're retarded. Almost every penal system in the western world is focussed on rehabilitation over incarceration.
Cigarette packages have surgeon general warnings because cigarettes can cause permanent, physical damage. That shit's more addictive than heroin and it's a physical addiction. EQ is a mental addiction. You become an addict because you let yourself become an addict. Smokers are addicts because their brain needs the nicotine.
No software writer is responsible, in any sense, for it's users actions. That's like Microsoft is responsible for Blaster. They're not. Granted, if Windows was written better, it wouldn't've happened, but that doesn't mean they're responsible. The only time anyone is responsible for someone else's actions is when there is an explicit chain of command. Managers are responsible for employees' behaviour. Officers are responsible for their soldiers' behaviour. Nowhere else.
What this society needs is for people to take some fucking responsibility for their actions, but it isn't going to happen if the American Way Of Life spreads any further. I'm almost tempted to say that civil court and lawsuits should be abolished, because dumb shit like suing software companies for kids' deaths would have to stop.
Don't be so quick to think that. Age is rarely a factor.
I'm not "quick" to think that. That's an observation that developed over five years.
Try discovering and devloping this attitude. Don't think of yourself as "less than professional" -- you're doing it for money so now you are professional too! Be the best out there. Tell people you are the best.
Did it. Tried it. Doesn't always work when you're under 18.
My best advice is to not waste your time. I tried precisely the same thing for five years (Yes, five years. I started doing webdesign the year I turned 14. I just turned 19.). You know how much money I've made, gross, on it, total? Probably less than $1000. That's all. No one takes kids seriously in business. It's sad, but it's a fact. You won't make the money you want to make until you're into your mid-to-late twenties or thirties. "He's only a kid; what does he know?" You'll never hear it, but that what they'll think and that's what they'll say.
However, if you are going to try, you'll need to deal with a whole lot of red tape. Vendor's permit. Tax permits (yes, you need to charge tax). You'll have to register your business with several government bodies, make deductions on your pay... You'll be dealing with Revenue Canada/IRS on multiple levels and it's just a bad scene. Then, as someone else mentioned, you'll probably need insurance, in case you send somebody's machine to hell.
Notice that you still haven't set up a website. This is just legal bullshit you have to go through that I never did and I regret not doing. You know why I never did it? I never had the money. I said to myself, "I'll get a vendor's permit after my next contract. I'll register the business after this next contract." You know what? Never happened. Never got the contract.
The most important thing to remember is if you're going to undercut your competitors, don't undercut by very much. Competitive pricing, not psychotic pricing. In a market where the average price is $50/hr, charge... $40. It shows you're serious about business.
Something else you may have noticed -- I haven't recommended getting certifications yet. I do recommend it, but only if you can afford it. They are FUCKING expensive. I only got my CCNA because my high school offered the program. I only had to pay for the certification exam. In most places, though, you'll have to drop $6000-$10000 on the training.. and you may not even get certified.
So, I'll repeat my earlier statement -- don't waste your time. Go out and find a bullshit job, maybe work at a Future Shop or a Best Buy in the computer department, get some money, go to university and when you get out, moonlight this kind of thing until you're confident you can make a living on it. I know it sucks, but I've been there and not making money because no one takes you seriously sucks even more.
Back in the not so old days, they all used playback. Now they're forced to sing live.
Umm... did you the MTV Music Awards? TATU sang about half their song live. Britney Spears does not sing live. They lip sync, they're bad at it and no one gives a shit.
Hey, I don't care about .001-dB accuracy on my vocal tracks; I like them sounding good. Hence the using the tiniest amount of reverb when you're mastering; it gives the track a bit of presence.
And as far as people who use them "blindly" being "mystics", maybe, just maybe, it's that they've used many, shitty solid-state preamps and use tube amps exclusively because they prefer the sound. You know, experience might be it too.