The Constitution was designed to alert the population when a president is changing the government into something else. That's why we hear so much about Bush violating the Constitution - he's trying to change our government into something else. Whether he's consciously targeting fascism, or it's a happy coincidence, I don't care - either way, it sucks and I'll be VERY GLAD to see him go.
The "work for hire" thing really might be the saving grace of the O.P. My background is in the entertainment industry, but I, too, am more than familiar with the gory details of copyright law. If the O.P.'s company can prove that the software was written specifically to satisfy the request of the O.P.'s company, and none of the custom work was generated prior, then there's a good chance that it's a "work for hire".
You sure it's *really* a VHS tape? I'd guess that it's an ADAT tape, which pretty much looks just like a VHS tape, but is a popular media for pro/semipro digital audio recording. If so, your best bet is to talk to some local small studios and have it transferred by them to a CD or something.
Big Corporations are individual people. I think your ideas are 100% on-target, but incorporating, de facto, makes the corporation an individual citizen (i.e. - The Employee)...
When I'm leaving the office, and I know I'm stopping at a store on the way home, I put my gear in the trunk. I know, it's a very specific situation (you *have* an office, *and* a car trunk...), but still...
It may be a new feature for these folks, but it ain't for some of the rest of us. Allow me to explain my simple implementation...
I've done work for "people with money" that involved accepting open public input. Part of the "value" was that the folks soliciting said input would like to analyze the data in a meaningful way...
In a nutshell, you submit your opinion via an HTML form. When it is processed, it looks for a specific cookie to identify you. If it finds it, it uses that to look up your user in the database and associates your opinion with your existing user record (whether it contains any real user info or not - don't matter). If it doesn't find it, it creates a new user record with whatever personably identifiable information you have submitted (which could be *none*), associates your opinion with that user entry, and writes a 20 year cookie to your hard drive documenting that you're *that* user.
...and a fabric of space and time that's not smooth and continuous, as Einstein believed, but divided into discrete, indivisible chunks of vanishingly small size...
For what it's worth, this sounds like analog -vs- digital. Ask yourself: which one is natural, analog or digital?
Yeah, um, why don't you go smoke some more dope with your hippie friends, OK...? (j/k)
We've *got* networks and cross communications. What does this offer us? OH - the chance to offer assistance to a bunch of strangers that might/do hate us. Great. Let's jump right on that!
The 44 kHz (IIRC) sampling frequency of a CD means that you can actually record signals with frequencies as high has 22 kHz (half the sampling frequency -- that's a methematical theorem about the discrete Fourier transform)
Actually, 44.1k allows you to capture up to 20kHz, not 22kHz. What you're talking about is the Nyquist Theorem, and you've got the right idea, but you're leaving out one subtlety.
A low-pass filter is used prior to sampling the audio, and this filter is set to have a ceiling of 20kHz. However, the cuttoff at 20k is not a "brick wall", it's a slope. By the time the audio is completely cut off, it's up around 22.05k, which, x 2, is 44.1k. Geddit?
I guess, technically, some sound above 20k gets through, but the highest frequency fully reproduced is 20k.
This is totally off the main thread, and is a direct reply to a reply, so let the modding games begin...
I agree with what you're saying, too. I've heard of folks getting decent sounds with creative piezoing (is that a word?), and the intentionally artificial stuff you're describing sounds pretty cool. And yeah, running guitars direct pretty much always sucks.:-{P>
As a former recording engineer with plenty of live classical recording experience, I would strongly advise against using *any* sort of pickup on a stringed classical instrument. Use a mic - any mic is better than a pickup for this.
pickup: noun; a little gadget that you put beneath or attached to the strings (if attached to, it goes behind the bridge...) of an instrument. It "picks up" (geddit?) the strings' vibrations and, through electromagnetic induction, converts them into tiny little voltages. Those voltages get sent on their merry way to become big, loud voltages, etc.
The problem is this: all they pick up is the strings. Most of what sounds "good" about a stringed classical instrument comes from the hollow wooden body. None of that is captured with a pickup.
The moral of the story is: always, always, always use a microphone (pointed at the instrument, not at an amplifier) to record classical instruments.
MOFO = MP3 sOng File Organizer.
A simple Windoze app to scan CDR's for *.mp3 files, then catalog them in an Acc3ss database. I actually tried really hard to come up with this goofy name...
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One of my co-workers made an extreme potato howitzer when he was younger. This friggin monster runs on ether and has an automobile ignition system! Do NOT try this at home!
I don't get the whole super-duper mega-super-size TV craze, anyhow. I mean, it's just TV. You're just sitting there, being immobilized and spoon fed artificial ideals by observing make-believe stories and/or lives of media-friendly commercial-pimping characters in some fabulously unrealistic plot.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to set my TiVo to record Friends while I watch Survivor...
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Okay, but what the fuck is Plone?
+1 for reading my friggin mind.
WTF??? This is neither "news" nor "for nerds"...
DO IT, FAGGOT!!!
(Sorry everyone. I'm devolving into a B-tard and can't/won't stop myself...)
AWESOME! I hate illiterate typists, too. ROCK ON!
I don't know if it's totalitarianism so much as it is fascism.
Check out this piece comparing Bush to Hitler.
The Constitution was designed to alert the population when a president is changing the government into something else. That's why we hear so much about Bush violating the Constitution - he's trying to change our government into something else. Whether he's consciously targeting fascism, or it's a happy coincidence, I don't care - either way, it sucks and I'll be VERY GLAD to see him go.
It's actually an industry standard.
The "work for hire" thing really might be the saving grace of the O.P. My background is in the entertainment industry, but I, too, am more than familiar with the gory details of copyright law. If the O.P.'s company can prove that the software was written specifically to satisfy the request of the O.P.'s company, and none of the custom work was generated prior, then there's a good chance that it's a "work for hire".
Kudos to you for bringing it up.
Optimalization ain't no fuckin wordage, man.
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Big Corporations are individual people. I think your ideas are 100% on-target, but incorporating, de facto, makes the corporation an individual citizen (i.e. - The Employee)...
When I'm leaving the office, and I know I'm stopping at a store on the way home, I put my gear in the trunk. I know, it's a very specific situation (you *have* an office, *and* a car trunk...), but still...
I've done work for "people with money" that involved accepting open public input. Part of the "value" was that the folks soliciting said input would like to analyze the data in a meaningful way...
In a nutshell, you submit your opinion via an HTML form. When it is processed, it looks for a specific cookie to identify you. If it finds it, it uses that to look up your user in the database and associates your opinion with your existing user record (whether it contains any real user info or not - don't matter). If it doesn't find it, it creates a new user record with whatever personably identifiable information you have submitted (which could be *none*), associates your opinion with that user entry, and writes a 20 year cookie to your hard drive documenting that you're *that* user.
Just thought I'd share.
"and these are just the bare essentials that only even begin to describe the chip. [an error occurred while processing this directive]".
For what it's worth, this sounds like analog -vs- digital. Ask yourself: which one is natural, analog or digital?
Um... hell-ooo? It's called *sarcasm*...
We've *got* networks and cross communications. What does this offer us? OH - the chance to offer assistance to a bunch of strangers that might/do hate us. Great. Let's jump right on that!
Not.
That would be "to get your feet wet"...
Actually, 44.1k allows you to capture up to 20kHz, not 22kHz. What you're talking about is the Nyquist Theorem, and you've got the right idea, but you're leaving out one subtlety.
A low-pass filter is used prior to sampling the audio, and this filter is set to have a ceiling of 20kHz. However, the cuttoff at 20k is not a "brick wall", it's a slope. By the time the audio is completely cut off, it's up around 22.05k, which, x 2, is 44.1k. Geddit? I guess, technically, some sound above 20k gets through, but the highest frequency fully reproduced is 20k.
I agree with what you're saying, too. I've heard of folks getting decent sounds with creative piezoing (is that a word?), and the intentionally artificial stuff you're describing sounds pretty cool. And yeah, running guitars direct pretty much always sucks. :-{P>
Thanks for the $.02! 'Preciate it.
As a former recording engineer with plenty of live classical recording experience, I would strongly advise against using *any* sort of pickup on a stringed classical instrument. Use a mic - any mic is better than a pickup for this.
pickup: noun; a little gadget that you put beneath or attached to the strings (if attached to, it goes behind the bridge...) of an instrument. It "picks up" (geddit?) the strings' vibrations and, through electromagnetic induction, converts them into tiny little voltages. Those voltages get sent on their merry way to become big, loud voltages, etc.
The problem is this: all they pick up is the strings. Most of what sounds "good" about a stringed classical instrument comes from the hollow wooden body. None of that is captured with a pickup.
The moral of the story is: always, always, always use a microphone (pointed at the instrument, not at an amplifier) to record classical instruments.
Actually, you can get WMP for Mac. Or, at least, for OSX on Mac...
MOFO = MP3 sOng File Organizer.
A simple Windoze app to scan CDR's for *.mp3 files, then catalog them in an Acc3ss database. I actually tried really hard to come up with this goofy name...
One of my co-workers made an extreme potato howitzer when he was younger. This friggin monster runs on ether and has an automobile ignition system! Do NOT try this at home!
Mmm... small metal bras... Where? Are there any actual photos from the event posted on the www anywhere?
I don't get the whole super-duper mega-super-size TV craze, anyhow. I mean, it's just TV. You're just sitting there, being immobilized and spoon fed artificial ideals by observing make-believe stories and/or lives of media-friendly commercial-pimping characters in some fabulously unrealistic plot. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to set my TiVo to record Friends while I watch Survivor...