That's like saying that the only music worth listening to is distributed by a label. Yes, there is alot of crap out there, but don't assume that it is if it's not backed up by some organization. Listen to my unsigned band. That's a damn good CD, recorded professionally, with no filler - and not signed to any label.
Of course, it says that Orchard is the label, but you can read about that in my journal. (Wonderful irony)
After all, the human brain is a "computer" that allows its user to "securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents".
And in the case of E-Pass executives, the human brain is credit card sized as well.
I am the proud owner of an Aardvark Q10. I have been very happy with it so far, and it is far
more versatile than my freinds ProTools Digis and Mboxes. (Which I remind them of often:)
I have a few questions and concerns, however.
I realize that you are working on the OS 9 drivers with OS X to follow and must be rather busy
with that. Now that OS X has matured and the G5s are out, I have considered investing in a new
Mac for my Q10. Is there any sort of timeframe for OS X drivers?
Connected with this: When the OS X drivers are released, are there plans for Linux drivers?
Support of Linux would drive hardware sales as there are many Linux users out there who would love
to use Aardvark. (Linux users love your specs:)
Finally, I am a avid BeOS user. Be Inc. is no more, however OpenBeOS and YellowTab Zeta are
bringing it back. OpenBeOS is an open source implementation of BeOS that is binary compatable,
and Zeta is, for all intents and purposes, BeOS 6 (licensed from Palm). Development of BeOS
software is on the rise, and there are several new Audio programs being worked on currently, as
well as new drivers being released everyday.
See www.bebits.com for details.
In doing some research before purchasing my Q10, I read that Aardvark was working on BeOS drivers,
which influenced my purchase of your hardware to some degree.
On your (old) site: http://www.aardvark-pro.com/aark24_faq.html#17
Quotes from head honchos: http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/WNAMM99/Aardv ark/BeOS-Support.html
My questions: Are there beta/unfinished/finished BeOS drivers for Aardvark hardware? If so, can
the drivers/source code/documentation be released or purchased?
I understand that you may have little interest in 'niche' or 'dead' OS support, but a release of
drivers or specs would only drive adoption of your hardware. You could even release them as
"unsupported", or as binaries (if opening the source is out of the question).
Be Inc. may be gone, but BeOS is being replaced as we speak. I have followed and used BeOS since
1999, and am seeing interest in it swell more and more. If Aardvark released drivers or source
code, you would make many friends rather quickly and raise more than a few eyebrows (in a good way:). More people are trying BeOS every day, and would like to use it for the same reasons Aardvark
had when announcing support.
I debated for quite a while whether or not to email and make these requests. I understand if
releasing source code sounds impossible or ridiculous.
With Windows becoming more and more of a DRM crippled, embedded "Media" OS, I, as well as many
others are looking for a new way to make and record our music. Personally, I think that BeOS
making quite a comeback. I urge you to look into it, and the possibility of supporting or helping
out the burgeoning community, which in turn will help you with sales of your hardware.
The Response:
Thanks for the email. Right now we're trying to finish up the Mac OSX
drivers, which hopefully will be out in a few months. Beware though, Apple
changed a lot of things on the G5 so all software and hardware will need
some changes. For instance, they changed the PCI bus voltage so normal PCI
cards won't work in the G5, they have to be redesigned. So for OSX I'm
pretty confident it will be out and work flawlessly, however I can't say for
the G5 yet until we get one in here. FYI - many hardware company's have the
same issue.
There are still no plans for Linux of BeOS drivers. They're both great
operating systems and we wish more end users would use them, but the cry is
for Windows and Mac only, so we have to do those first.
Aardvark
www.aardvarkaudio.com
I would love to see linux and BeOS drivers for this hardware (obviously), and if you are the owner of Aardvark's hardware and reading this, you probably do too.
Please let them know that you would like to see drivers for linux/BSD/BeOS...
I know there is other hardware out there that supports linux (and BeOS), but the Q10 is really, really good. I want my cake, and eat it too:)
Old Da-rl McPrisonBride, S-C,S-C-O
CEO of the company, S-C,S-C-0
With snip, snip here, and some very questionable source code whose origin that cannot be determined and most likely taken out of context while backed up with ludicrious claims that have no bearing on reality and in fact show a complete disregard for sanity in conjuction with alienating their customers and angering those who created it in the first place while simultaneously suing those who use it and impressing on the community the need to imprison the asshats who are pumping and dumping their stock at the expense of the shareholders and in spite of FTC rules there,
Here a line, there a line, everywhere a stolen line!
Old Da-rl McPrisonBride, S - C, S - C - OOOoooo!
After reading Linus's's's comment's, I think he is just going to replace the 'offending' code with a big ASCII middle finger. like this,-> 'n|m m|n' only way bigger.
And dammit, why does Linus Torvalds have to have 'S' at the end of his first and last name? I can't figure out where the apostrophy goes.;)
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40% Crying
5% Crayon ability
15% Get daddy a beer
7% Underfoot
3% Questions beginning with 'Why'
20% Screaming, running, and breaking.
Please contact me for licensing.
It sounds like interesting and useful tech for USENET, but there is the question of MS doing it. I'd have far less reservations about it if Google was behind it.
The AURA just sounds like the CueCat Digital Convergence people who wanted to put a bar code on everything. Again, MS is not the company I'd like to see doing this.
*Rather Offtopic - but Digital Convergence used to advertise the CueCat with an 'Angel coming down to earth from heaven to barcode everything' and the well-known Digital Angel RFID people have also made a religious reference in the company's name. The hue and cry of Christian's 'the number of the beast' references beg the question:
Who the hell is doing marketing for these people? I remember getting an icky feeling when I saw the 'infomercial' for the CueCat, and similarly the Digital Angel website. And I'm not the 'churchy' type. I can only imagine what the fundies think...
* This idea is copyrighted. Use of this idea may not be used to more attractively market 'evil' technology, or put a chip in my head. Thanks.
Indeed, I have RTFFAQ - I don't care about my question personally (drop in the bucket w/ 1500+ posts), I'm just using it as a handy example of the difference between 'boxers or briefs' and something that applies to the campaign.
My point is that there were better questions that wern't modded up or picked, and the interview suffered as a result. BTW - I misspelled candidate all over the place.
Answer: Still on the question page. I happened to ask a pretty good question about her patent holdings that was modded up to 5 and it got shelved for 'boxers or briefs', 'vi or emacs', 'did you pay SCO', and 'hope to win or shake things up' (best of the shitty questions)
This wasn't an interview, this was poor flirting.
I'd be interested to know if Georgy picked the questions or if Roblimo did. If Georgy did, it shows evasiveness just like the other canidates (Arnold & gay marriage - "I don't want to get into that right now."), just with different issues.
If Roblimo did, it shows a lack of understanding of what makes a good interview.
What did this tell me about Georgy? Not enough to make an informed decision on whether or not to vote for her. (Not that I can, since I don't live in CA)
I hate to make a big deal about it, because no one will read this after it's bombed to -1, but this is one example of why geeks don't get what they want politically. Slashdot really missed a chance to educate people about this canidate, and that's really too bad.
I got this on pay-per-view last week and it was totally fixed. MS Blaster dove off the top rope onto MS Patcher, and then kept booting him, and rebooting him. MS Patcher was like, "Huh? What?" until his manager got in the ring and slapped him.
You couldn't tell, but I used the freeze-frame on my Beowulf cluster of Tivos and saw that there was hidden IP in Blasters hand.
I was so pissed, I called Fight Update to complain, but the lines were all busy.
Never again will I pay $179 for a pay-per-view wrestling match...although the upcoming free-for-all cage match between SCO, Linux, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and FSF sounds pretty interesting. I bet that PanIP will make an appearance and beat the hell out of somebody too.
Someone always gets in the cage at the last minute.
As a producer, I'm guessing you use p2p to nab some songs that may be in the back or your head and that you would like to duplicate the 'feel' of aspects of a certain producer's style. How has p2p affected your production style? Has it helped solidify ideas, or bogged you down with distractions?
...AND...
I am currently in the process of removing my music from buymusic.com, who acquired it and is selling it illegally. What resources do independent artists have when fighting against the very industry that professes to protect musicians? Is copyright infrigement a one way street leading straight to the bank for large companies?
As a publicist, do you see distribution via p2p as a growing trend for your more/less established artists? I notice that the link to Neil's site only provides small samples of music. Do you encourage making entire songs available at low bitrate samples? Does p2p make this a moot point?
Why am I reading a pile of comments that say, "Win XP won't run on my 286, blah blah blah, why should Macs be any different?"
The strength of the Macintosh comes from the fact that there is a limited range of hardware that needs to be supported from the factory. There isn't 34 different video cards to support.
Apple doesn't have an excuse. They claimed that OS X would work on all the G3s. They should have written the drivers or refunded the $$$, or never wrote checks that their body couldn't cash.
MS never claimed that Windows XP would work on your 386, 8086, 8088. IIRC, MS said that many would need to upgrade. Of course, MS isn't (fervently) trying to increase hardware sales.
It's a little scary when the only computer your OS runs on is made by the same company. Look at Be Inc. and their BeOS/BeBox to 'Internet Appliance' focus shift. Whoops. Lets not develop our OS except for toasters. (I blame MS too, of course...)
No, Apple isn't dying. In fact, I think Apple is poised to beat some stuffing out of MS.
Apple does need to avoid vaporware claims, and treating their customers like two-dollar whores - we get enough of that elsewhere.
to pay for the software returns, or to write some drivers for the video and DVD issues?
I know this is mainly to drive hardware sales, but it seems a little disingenuous to not take care of their customers.
I've been looking at getting a PB, but stories like this where Apple just drops support on a whim, or doesn't 'make it right', make me look for a Latitude or Thinkpad. Couple that with hearing stories about the $500+ repairs on Apple laptops, and I'm getting more leery. I rarely hear about problems with other laptop makers.
OS X is a powerful draw, but the 'closed-source' hardware and the constant ditching of support have me wondering. Make it easy, Apple!
I prefer to have a MSCE carry me around. Their minds are quite malleable and are easy to train and control. Best yet, they can bring me a beer, which is the test of any fine robot.
MS was going to post a detailed breakdown of all the crashes, but the crash report database server went down when it kept trying to send reports to itself.
Another link on this ZDnet leads to this story which I would type up and submit if I thought there was any chance of anyone seeing it. Outlook express will not be updated. That means that this crappy default windows email program will sit around and contribute to worms, viruses and exploits from now until the last W95 box is dead.
Hooray! Remember, no one ever got fired for sending 230,000 Klez viruses.
With Windows 'Innovating' (sigh) and not bug fixing, third party code will be the least of their problems, infact, with undocumented 'features' and system calls and closed source code, how can anyone be expected to write drivers and such that never crash?
not to be believed! It is well known that Dr. Watson has a weakness for liquor, and fraternizes with a known cocaine addict.
His conclusions are suspect, and so are his motives. It's elementary, really. Bill G should get Magnum P.I. or Simon and Simon to do this investigation.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, it says that Orchard is the label, but you can read about that in my journal. (Wonderful irony)
And in the case of E-Pass executives, the human brain is credit card sized as well.
I am the proud owner of an Aardvark Q10. I have been very happy with it so far, and it is far more versatile than my freinds ProTools Digis and Mboxes. (Which I remind them of often :)
I have a few questions and concerns, however.
I realize that you are working on the OS 9 drivers with OS X to follow and must be rather busy with that. Now that OS X has matured and the G5s are out, I have considered investing in a new Mac for my Q10. Is there any sort of timeframe for OS X drivers?
Connected with this: When the OS X drivers are released, are there plans for Linux drivers? Support of Linux would drive hardware sales as there are many Linux users out there who would love to use Aardvark. (Linux users love your specs :)
Finally, I am a avid BeOS user. Be Inc. is no more, however OpenBeOS and YellowTab Zeta are bringing it back. OpenBeOS is an open source implementation of BeOS that is binary compatable, and Zeta is, for all intents and purposes, BeOS 6 (licensed from Palm). Development of BeOS software is on the rise, and there are several new Audio programs being worked on currently, as well as new drivers being released everyday. See www.bebits.com for details.
In doing some research before purchasing my Q10, I read that Aardvark was working on BeOS drivers, which influenced my purchase of your hardware to some degree.
On your (old) site: http://www.aardvark-pro.com/aark24_faq.html#17
Quotes from head honchos: http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/WNAMM99/Aardv ark/BeOS-Support.html
My questions: Are there beta/unfinished/finished BeOS drivers for Aardvark hardware? If so, can the drivers/source code/documentation be released or purchased?
I understand that you may have little interest in 'niche' or 'dead' OS support, but a release of drivers or specs would only drive adoption of your hardware. You could even release them as "unsupported", or as binaries (if opening the source is out of the question).
Be Inc. may be gone, but BeOS is being replaced as we speak. I have followed and used BeOS since 1999, and am seeing interest in it swell more and more. If Aardvark released drivers or source code, you would make many friends rather quickly and raise more than a few eyebrows (in a good way :). More people are trying BeOS every day, and would like to use it for the same reasons Aardvark
had when announcing support.
I debated for quite a while whether or not to email and make these requests. I understand if releasing source code sounds impossible or ridiculous.
With Windows becoming more and more of a DRM crippled, embedded "Media" OS, I, as well as many others are looking for a new way to make and record our music. Personally, I think that BeOS making quite a comeback. I urge you to look into it, and the possibility of supporting or helping out the burgeoning community, which in turn will help you with sales of your hardware.
The Response:
Thanks for the email. Right now we're trying to finish up the Mac OSX drivers, which hopefully will be out in a few months. Beware though, Apple changed a lot of things on the G5 so all software and hardware will need some changes. For instance, they changed the PCI bus voltage so normal PCI cards won't work in the G5, they have to be redesigned. So for OSX I'm pretty confident it will be out and work flawlessly, however I can't say for the G5 yet until we get one in here. FYI - many hardware company's have the same issue.
There are still no plans for Linux of BeOS drivers. They're both great operating systems and we wish more end users would use them, but the cry is for Windows and Mac only, so we have to do those first.
Aardvark
www.aardvarkaudio.com
I would love to see linux and BeOS drivers for this hardware (obviously), and if you are the owner of Aardvark's hardware and reading this, you probably do too.
Please let them know that you would like to see drivers for linux/BSD/BeOS...
I know there is other hardware out there that supports linux (and BeOS), but the Q10 is really, really good. I want my cake, and eat it too :)
As I guessed, we are too lazy to go to Mars ourselves. ;)
BTW, if you go into the big blue room *right now* (6am Central), Mars is being displayed on the viewscreen, and it is pretty big...
I mean, we already know about the Leather Goddesses of Phobos...
Hey! 1997 called! They want their web developer back!
CEO of the company, S-C,S-C-0
With snip, snip here, and some very questionable source code whose origin that cannot be determined and most likely taken out of context while backed up with ludicrious claims that have no bearing on reality and in fact show a complete disregard for sanity in conjuction with alienating their customers and angering those who created it in the first place while simultaneously suing those who use it and impressing on the community the need to imprison the asshats who are pumping and dumping their stock at the expense of the shareholders and in spite of FTC rules there,
Here a line, there a line, everywhere a stolen line!
Old Da-rl McPrisonBride, S - C, S - C - OOOoooo!
Second verse, same as the first! Everyone!
And dammit, why does Linus Torvalds have to have 'S' at the end of his first and last name? I can't figure out where the apostrophy goes. ;)
10% Cute (or ugly to eveyone other than owner)
40% Crying
5% Crayon ability
15% Get daddy a beer
7% Underfoot
3% Questions beginning with 'Why'
20% Screaming, running, and breaking.
Please contact me for licensing.
Example:
10 GOTU 4o
30 Re+URN; G0SUB 42
40 Print "Welcom to Windoes!":PRINGT "JUS KIFFING! HAHAHA!"
43 RUN
50 REM Copyright SCO(TM)(R)(C) 2012, NOT! HAHAHAHA
6o GOt0 14.3
Hey, it's a joke! Relax - no angry human brains will be used either!
Point made. The editors made some pretty weak choices. :)
The AURA just sounds like the CueCat Digital Convergence people who wanted to put a bar code on everything. Again, MS is not the company I'd like to see doing this.
*Rather Offtopic - but Digital Convergence used to advertise the CueCat with an 'Angel coming down to earth from heaven to barcode everything' and the well-known Digital Angel RFID people have also made a religious reference in the company's name. The hue and cry of Christian's 'the number of the beast' references beg the question:
Who the hell is doing marketing for these people? I remember getting an icky feeling when I saw the 'infomercial' for the CueCat, and similarly the Digital Angel website. And I'm not the 'churchy' type. I can only imagine what the fundies think...
* This idea is copyrighted. Use of this idea may not be used to more attractively market 'evil' technology, or put a chip in my head. Thanks.
My point is that there were better questions that wern't modded up or picked, and the interview suffered as a result. BTW - I misspelled candidate all over the place.
This wasn't an interview, this was poor flirting.
I'd be interested to know if Georgy picked the questions or if Roblimo did. If Georgy did, it shows evasiveness just like the other canidates (Arnold & gay marriage - "I don't want to get into that right now."), just with different issues.
If Roblimo did, it shows a lack of understanding of what makes a good interview.
What did this tell me about Georgy? Not enough to make an informed decision on whether or not to vote for her. (Not that I can, since I don't live in CA)
I hate to make a big deal about it, because no one will read this after it's bombed to -1, but this is one example of why geeks don't get what they want politically. Slashdot really missed a chance to educate people about this canidate, and that's really too bad.
You couldn't tell, but I used the freeze-frame on my Beowulf cluster of Tivos and saw that there was hidden IP in Blasters hand.
I was so pissed, I called Fight Update to complain, but the lines were all busy.
Never again will I pay $179 for a pay-per-view wrestling match...although the upcoming free-for-all cage match between SCO, Linux, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and FSF sounds pretty interesting. I bet that PanIP will make an appearance and beat the hell out of somebody too.
Someone always gets in the cage at the last minute.
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Begun, this worm war has.
...AND...
I am currently in the process of removing my music from buymusic.com, who acquired it and is selling it illegally. What resources do independent artists have when fighting against the very industry that professes to protect musicians? Is copyright infrigement a one way street leading straight to the bank for large companies?
As a publicist, do you see distribution via p2p as a growing trend for your more/less established artists? I notice that the link to Neil's site only provides small samples of music. Do you encourage making entire songs available at low bitrate samples? Does p2p make this a moot point?
The strength of the Macintosh comes from the fact that there is a limited range of hardware that needs to be supported from the factory. There isn't 34 different video cards to support.
Apple doesn't have an excuse. They claimed that OS X would work on all the G3s. They should have written the drivers or refunded the $$$, or never wrote checks that their body couldn't cash.
MS never claimed that Windows XP would work on your 386, 8086, 8088. IIRC, MS said that many would need to upgrade. Of course, MS isn't (fervently) trying to increase hardware sales.
It's a little scary when the only computer your OS runs on is made by the same company. Look at Be Inc. and their BeOS/BeBox to 'Internet Appliance' focus shift. Whoops. Lets not develop our OS except for toasters. (I blame MS too, of course...)
No, Apple isn't dying. In fact, I think Apple is poised to beat some stuffing out of MS.
Apple does need to avoid vaporware claims, and treating their customers like two-dollar whores - we get enough of that elsewhere.
I know this is mainly to drive hardware sales, but it seems a little disingenuous to not take care of their customers.
I've been looking at getting a PB, but stories like this where Apple just drops support on a whim, or doesn't 'make it right', make me look for a Latitude or Thinkpad. Couple that with hearing stories about the $500+ repairs on Apple laptops, and I'm getting more leery. I rarely hear about problems with other laptop makers.
OS X is a powerful draw, but the 'closed-source' hardware and the constant ditching of support have me wondering. Make it easy, Apple!
Maybe I'll go find a P2 to put Zeta on..
I prefer to have a MSCE carry me around. Their minds are quite malleable and are easy to train and control. Best yet, they can bring me a beer, which is the test of any fine robot.
MS was going to post a detailed breakdown of all the crashes, but the crash report database server went down when it kept trying to send reports to itself.
Hooray! Remember, no one ever got fired for sending 230,000 Klez viruses.
With Windows 'Innovating' (sigh) and not bug fixing, third party code will be the least of their problems, infact, with undocumented 'features' and system calls and closed source code, how can anyone be expected to write drivers and such that never crash?
Hmm.
His conclusions are suspect, and so are his motives. It's elementary, really. Bill G should get Magnum P.I. or Simon and Simon to do this investigation.
I took a real RISK posting this!
I'm going to go shoot myself now.